Keston Perry

Keston is a political economist. His scholarship examines how colonialism, imperialism and racial inequality structure the geopolitical, socio-ecological and economic dynamics of climate change and development finance related to ongoing political, economic and ecological crises and futures facing Caribbean communities. His work is published in several international leading academic journals and popular media. His current book project, tentatively titled Black Livingness After Disaster: the Caribbean’s Struggle Against Ecological Imperialism with Columbia University Press, examines how the legacies of colonialism and the plantation economy contribute to the region’s uneven socio-ecological vulnerabilities, scrutinizes climate finance and reparations proposals for the Caribbean, and engages how marginalized communities in Barbuda, Dominica, Haiti, and Sint Maarten resist and enact communal repair and reparative ecologies. He teaches courses on political ecology, Caribbean economic history, the political economy of finance and development, Black queer ecologies, reparations, as well as how colonialism and the plantation economy intersect with environmental injustices, global finance and governance.