Publications
Selected publications
- Neurodivergent Youthhoods: Adolescent Rites of Passage, Disability and the Teenage Epilepsy Clinic (Book - 2023)
- Building Better Worlds: Ideas and Inspiration from the Zapatistas (Book - 2022)
- Unsettling orthodoxy via epistemological jailbreak: Rethinking childhood, psychology, and wellbeing from the Caribbean (Journal article - 2022)
- Desire over damage: Epistemological shifts and anticolonial praxis from an indigenous-led community health project (Journal article - 2021)
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.
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/
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
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
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/
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
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
Environmental defenders and social movements: The violent realities of resisting extractivism
Gahman, L., Penados, F., & Smith, S. J. (2024). Environmental defenders and social movements: The violent realities of resisting extractivism. In The Companion to Development Studies (pp. 176-180). doi:10.4324/9780429282348-36
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
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].
The violence of disavowing Indigenous governance: exposing the colonial politics of "development" and FPIC in the Caribbean
Toledo Anonymous Collective, N., Gahman, L., Penados, F., & Smith, S. -J. (n.d.). The violence of disavowing Indigenous governance: exposing the colonial politics of "development" and FPIC in the Caribbean. Journal of Political Ecology, 29(1). doi:10.2458/jpe.5124
The Persistent Coloniality of Police Brutality in the Caribbean: Race, Class, and Socio-spatialised State Violence in Trinidad and Tobago
Reyes, J. -R., Smith, S. -J., Mattu, C., & Gahman, L. (2022). The Persistent Coloniality of Police Brutality in the Caribbean: Race, Class, and Socio-spatialised State Violence in Trinidad and Tobago. In S. Springer, & R. White (Eds.), Anti-Policing: Prefiguring Possibilities Beyond the Thin Blue Line. Lexington Books: Rowman and Littlefield.
Land, race, and (slow) violence: Indigenous resistance to racial capitalism and the coloniality of development in the Caribbean
Penados, F., Gahman, L., & Smith, S. -J. (2023). Land, race, and (slow) violence: Indigenous resistance to racial capitalism and the coloniality of development in the Caribbean. Geoforum, 145, 103602. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.07.004
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
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.
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
Unsettling orthodoxy via epistemological jailbreak: Rethinking childhood, psychology, and wellbeing from the Caribbean
Smith, S. -J., Greenidge, A., & Gahman, L. (2022). Unsettling orthodoxy via epistemological jailbreak: Rethinking childhood, psychology, and wellbeing from the Caribbean. Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 7(1-3), 17-36. doi:10.1080/23802014.2022.2043773
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/
2021
Desire over damage: Epistemological shifts and anticolonial praxis from an indigenous-led community health project
Smith, S. -J., Penados, F., & Gahman, L. (2022). Desire over damage: Epistemological shifts and anticolonial praxis from an indigenous-led community health project. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS, 44, 124-141. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.13410
"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/
Responding to the Crisis of COVID-19 (and Capitalism): Land Defence in the Face of State-sponsored Dispossession and Food System Shock
Gahman, L., Penados, F., Smith, S. -J., & Alexander, J. (2021). Responding to the Crisis of COVID-19 (and Capitalism): Land Defence in the Face of State-sponsored Dispossession and Food System Shock. Agrarian South Network Research Bulletin, 1(9), 15-28.
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