Research
My research focuses generally on issues related to globalization, economic
restructuring, gender transformations in work and social justice in developing
countries. More specifically, my research focuses on the specific institutional
configurations of capital, labor and the state that produce gendered forms
of economic injustice. Two broad themes currently define my research:
1. how changes in the spatial organization of production and consumption
are transforming the local institutions that regulate social relations;
2. how local institutions, in turn, are reconfiguring, contesting and
disrupting the re-organization of production and consumption.
Research addressing the first theme has generated articles examining the
institutional limits to the growth of information service export in Jamaica
(In Globalization and Neoliberalism: the Caribbean Context, 1998); the
relationship between changes practices of consumption and the growth of
sex tourism in the Caribbean (In Sun, Sex and Gold, 1999); the re-organization
of tourism production and the export of sex tourism services from Jamaica
(In New Forms of Consumption, 2000); the effect of the unequal relations
of power between Caribbean states and transnational institutions on the
territorialization of service industries in the region (Journal of Economic
Geography, 2004); and the role of institutional incompatibilities in the
failure of tourism to generate long-term territorial development (In The
Caribbean, 2004). Research addressing the second theme, on the other hand,
generated articles on the role of the home in facilitating covert and
destabilizing acts of resistance to the work process by data-entry operators
in Jamaica (Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1999);
the role of local gender regimes in the feminization of managerial and
professional occupations in the Caribbean banking industry (Gender, Place
and Culture, 2005) and currently, the role of scale politics in state
and international organization responses to questions of social and gender
justice in the Beijing Platform of Action and more recently, in the Millennium
Development Goals (in revision).
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Dr.
Beverley Mullings
Research