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Shelda-Jane Smith

Dr Shelda-Jane Smith
PhD, CPsychol.

Publications

Selected publications

  1. Neurodivergent Youthhoods: Adolescent Rites of Passage, Disability and the Teenage Epilepsy Clinic (Book - 2023)
  2. Building Better Worlds: Ideas and Inspiration from the Zapatistas (Book - 2022)
  3. Unsettling orthodoxy via epistemological jailbreak: Rethinking childhood, psychology, and wellbeing from the Caribbean (Journal article - 2022)
  4. Desire over damage: Epistemological shifts and anticolonial praxis from an indigenous-led community health project (Journal article - 2021)
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2025

Defending Community, Territory, and Indigenous Environmental Relations

Gahman, L., Penados, F., Coc, C., & Smith, S. -J. (n.d.). Defending Community, Territory, and Indigenous Environmental Relations. Cambridge University Press.

Book

2024

“There Will Be a Time…”: Confronting the Colonial-Health-Climate Crisis through Participatory Action Research by and for Youth

Gahman, L., Penados, F., Smith, S. -J., & Youth for Justice Collective. (2024). “There Will Be a Time…”: Confronting the Colonial-Health-Climate Crisis through Participatory Action Research by and for Youth. Retrieved from https://www.isrf.org/

Report

Unsettling orthodoxy via epistemological jailbreak: Rethinking childhood, psychology, and wellbeing from the Caribbean

Smith, S. -J., Greenidge, A., & Gahman, L. (2024). Unsettling orthodoxy via epistemological jailbreak: Rethinking childhood, psychology, and wellbeing from the Caribbean. In Studies of Childhoods in the Global South (pp. 16-35). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003470205-2

DOI
10.4324/9781003470205-2
Chapter

Environmental defenders and social movements

Gahman, L., Penados, F., & Smith, S. -J. (2024). Environmental defenders and social movements. In The Companion to Development Studies (pp. 176-180). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429282348-36

DOI
10.4324/9780429282348-36
Chapter

2023

Hidden Histories: Resistance and Restoration in Black Liverpool (Surviving Society Productions - Podcast Series)

Smith, S. J., Lewis, C. J., Ofori-Addo, G. A., & Gahman, L. (2023). Hidden Histories: Resistance and Restoration in Black Liverpool (Surviving Society Productions - Podcast Series). Retrieved from https://survivingsociety.co.uk/portfolio/hidden-histories/

Digital or visual media

Snapshots of Maya Self-determination in Southern Belize (Special Issue: Afterlives of Empire)

Kus, R., Gahman, L., Greenidge, A., Penados, F., & Smith, S. J. (n.d.). Snapshots of Maya Self-determination in Southern Belize (Special Issue: Afterlives of Empire). NACLA Report on the Americas, 55(3), 294-304. doi:10.1080/10714839.2023.2247761

DOI
10.1080/10714839.2023.2247761
Journal article

Snapshots of Maya Self-determination in Southern Belize

Kus, R., Gahman, L., Greenidge, A., Penados, F., & Smith, S. -J. (2023). Snapshots of Maya Self-determination in Southern Belize. NACLA Report on the Americas, 55(3), 294-304. doi:10.1080/10714839.2023.2247761

DOI
10.1080/10714839.2023.2247761
Journal article

Neurodivergent Youthhoods: Adolescent Rites of Passage, Disability and the Teenage Epilepsy Clinic

Smith, S. J. (2023). Neurodivergent Youthhoods: Adolescent Rites of Passage, Disability and the Teenage Epilepsy Clinic. doi:10.4324/9781003270034

DOI
10.4324/9781003270034
Book

2022

The Threads that Tie us Together: A Liverpool Caribbean Centre Participatory Film

Smith, S. -J. (2022). The Threads that Tie us Together: A Liverpool Caribbean Centre Participatory Film. [Film].

Other

A Beginner’s Guide to Building Better Worlds

Gahman, L., Mohamed, N., Penados, F., Reyes, J. -R., Mohamed, A., & Smith, S. -J. (2022). A Beginner’s Guide to Building Better Worlds. Bristol University Press. doi:10.46692/9781447362173

DOI
10.46692/9781447362173
Book

Building Better Worlds: Ideas and Inspiration from the Zapatistas

Gahman, L., Smith, S. -J., Penados, F., Mohamed, N., Reyes, J. -R., & Mohamed, A. (2022). Building Better Worlds: Ideas and Inspiration from the Zapatistas. Bristol University Press.

Book

Health, food sovereignty, solidarity economies

Gahman, L., Smith, S. -J., Penados, F., Mohamed, N., Reyes, J. -R., & Mohamed, A. (2022). Health, food sovereignty, solidarity economies. In A Beginner's Guide to Building Better Worlds (pp. 128-149). Policy Press. doi:10.1332/policypress/9781447362135.003.0009

DOI
10.1332/policypress/9781447362135.003.0009
Chapter

Bad Faith and Betrayal in Belize: Maya Governance Attacked and Disavowed in the Name of "Development"

Gahman, L., Penados, F., & Smith, S. -J. (2022). Bad Faith and Betrayal in Belize: Maya Governance Attacked and Disavowed in the Name of "Development". ROAR (Reflections On A Revolution) Online Journal. Retrieved from https://roarmag.org/essays/belize-maya-land-struggle/

Website content

2021

"The Future We Dream:" Unsettling Impact and Knowledge Production as We Know It

Gahman, L., Penados, F., & Smith, S. -J. (2021). "The Future We Dream:" Unsettling Impact and Knowledge Production as We Know It. Transforming Society: An Online Publication of Bristol University Press. Retrieved from https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/

Website content

Maya Communities Respond to Land Predation and Violations of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in Belize

Gahman, L., Penados, F., & Smith, S. -J. (2021). Maya Communities Respond to Land Predation and Violations of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in Belize. NACLA: North American Congress on Latin America. Retrieved from https://nacla.org/news/2020/12/13/maya-land-fpic-belize

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