Professor of Department of Behavioural Sciences, The University of the West Indies
Shelene Gomes teaches courses in social anthropology and the sociology of culture with research interests in migration, mobilities, cosmopolitan thought and action, postcolonial religion and spirituality as well as the politics of race, class and gender.
She has done ethnographic fieldwork in East Africa tracing the linkages between African diasporic imaginings and Caribbean cosmopolitan sensibilities. Her current interdisciplinary research centres return migrant women’s socially reproductive labours in doing unpaid care work in Trinidad.
Her public and scholarly writing is unified by a focus on contemporary solidarities, acts of agency and place-making within the context of unequal historical conditions of modernity. She’s author of Cosmopolitanism from the Global South: Caribbean Spiritual Repatriation to Ethiopia ( Palgrave. 2021), book on the linkages between Rastafari spiritual repatriation from the Caribbean to urban Ethiopia and cosmopolitan imaginings of personhood.
Dr. Shelene Gomes will participate in the activity “Racialized anthropologies and their effects: Background and critical views from today’s Chile”, organized by the students of the doctorate in anthropology of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Loreto Tenorio and Luis Briceño.
