IYARIC

Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief:

Tka C. Pinnock is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of feminist political economy and critical development studies where she explores the everyday politics of ‘life- work’. Her dissertation project explores the ways in which the life-work of marginalized workers is re/shaped by and in response to contemporary economic development processes, using the tourism sector in Jamaica as a case study. Pinnock’s community work also gives rise to an interest in diaspora studies and community-based research. 

Editorial Collective:

Nordiah Newell is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at York University. Her work explores the intersections of political participation, artificial intelligence (AI), digital mis/disinformation, and Black diasporic identities. Her current research focuses on the impact of disinformation on political engagement within African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) communities, employing a mixed-methods approach grounded in both quantitative and qualitative inquiry. More broadly, her research examines how misinformation, education, and civic identity shape policy outcomes and democratic participation. As a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholar, Nordiah brings a critical and interdisciplinary lens to questions of power, identity, and representation in political life. Her work has been featured in Africa at 20 and in program reports by the Toronto District School Board’s (TDSB) Centre of Excellence for Black Student Achievement (CEBSA).

Ashley K. Raghubir (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. Her research centres late twentieth and twenty-first century art of the Caribbean and its diasporas. She considers questions of empire, colonialism, and migration through the lenses of postcolonial studies and Caribbean studies. In the summer of 2024, Ashley was a visiting student at TrAIN (the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity, and Nation) at Chelsea College of Arts at the University of the Arts London. She has contributed writing to publications including The Journal of Modern Craft, TEXTE ZUR KUNST, and C Magazine. She holds a H.B.A. with a Specialist in Art History from the University of Toronto and a M.A. in Art History from Concordia University.

Amílcar Peter Sanatan is an interdisciplinary Caribbean artist, educator and activist. He is from Trinidad and Tobago and currently works in Helsinki, Finland. His public leadership and research amplify the youth-child-gender equality nexus of development, decolonial urbanism, and literary publics in social change. He promotes co-imagining and co-creation of development in the Caribbean and Americas region. Sanatan is the recipient of several professional and social leadership awards for his service to under-resourced communities in the region. He promotes democratic, sustainable and grounded approaches to national, regional and global development.

Sanatan co-edited two special issues in academic journals on Caribbean gender and cultural studies. He holds a BSc. Psychology and MPhil. Interdisciplinary Gender Studies from the University of the West Indies. He is a PhD student in Cultural Studies in the same institution.

Ongoing project: Research collaborator, Imagining Futures in the Margins of the State: Everyday Politics in Urban Communities in Trinidad and Zimbabwe, University of Helsinki

Recent publication: Co-editor of Caribbean Quarterly special issue, Gender-based Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean: Representation and Resistances in Literature and Culture (2024)

Website: www.amilcarsanatan.com

Founding Advisory Committee:

Dr. Honor Ford-Smith, Associate Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University

Dr. Tameka Samuels-Jones, Assistant Professor, School of Administrative Studies, York University

Dr. Carl E. James, Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora, Faculty of Education, York University

Camila Bonifaz, CERLAC

Debbie Ebanks, Research Associate, CERLAC

Tka Pinnock, Research Associate, CERLAC

Past Editors: