This edited collection brings together the work of practitioners, civil society actors, and academics, either located in the Caribbean, or involved in Caribbean-based work on public policy making and its implementation. The compendium challenges traditional dichotomies of external versus internal actors in the policy process, thereby, framing Caribbean public policy as a complex multi stakeholder undertaking. The collection is informed by three broad thematic areas: Gender and Policymaking, Human Security and Social Policy. Sub-themes include Gun Violence and CARICOM Small Island Developing States and the People Face/ Social Cost of Climate Change. This volume is ideal for researchers, policy-makers, academics, and graduate students.
Edited by:
Deborah N. Mc Fee,
Tracie A. Rogers
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9783031815911
ISBN 10: 3031815912
Pages: 440
Publication Date: 09 May 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part 1: Public policy is public space: stakeholders, civil society and alternative public policy makers.- Chapter 1: Women Working for Social Progress (“Workingwomen”): The Campaign to End Corporal Punishment.- Chapter 2: Climate Change, ‘Bushfires’ and Possibilities of Civil Society Based Policy-making in Trinidad and Tobago: Making Room at the Table.- Chapter 3: Child Sexual Abuse, ChildLinK, Civil Society and Communities of Practice in Collaboration with the Guyanese State.- Chapter 4: Climate Change Conversations Gender-based violence interventions in Dominica – Before and after the storms: an interview with Ms. Tina Alexander.- Part 2: Human security complexities and caribbean public policy.- Chapter 5: Displacing the Masculine Protagonist: Women, the Arms Trade Treaty, Human Security and Gun Violence in Trinidad & Tobago.- Chapter 6: Intergenerational Trauma and Neglect: Social Housing as a Strategy for Sustainable Development.- Chapter 7: Social Policy Implications for a Restorative Prisoner Re-entry Process.- Chapter 8: Interconnected Threads: From Global Governance to Local Realities in Human Chapter 9: Security: An Interview with Professor Craig Murphy.- Part 3: Crosscutting gender: social policy: sectoral reflections and invisibilities.- Chapter 10: Beijing To and Fro: From Women’s Bureaus to Gender Divisions.- Chapter 11: Policy-ing Adolescent Sexuality and Sexual Health in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.- Chapter 12: “Our Law to Access”: The Role of Women’s Rights Organisations in the Passage and Implementation of Guyana’s Abortion Law.- Chapter 13: Persistent Invisibilities: Purposive Erasure of Marginalised and Minoritised Gender Identities in Caribbean Policy Making.- Chapter 14: The Colonial Origins of Social Policy and Social Work in Guyana.- Chapter 15: Using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process to Rank Policy Aspirations for Child Protection in Aruba: A Human Capability Approach.- Chapter 16: Social Policy Contestations from Within the Academy. An interview with Dr. Innette Cambridge.- .- Part 4: public policy- 21st century caribbean reflections and futures.- Chapter 17: Understanding the Persistence of the Westminster Whitehall Model in the Caribbean: The Challenges Facing Constitutional Reformers: Interview with Professor Hamid Ghany.- Chapter 18: Recording Our Policy Process: The Caribbean’s Postcolonial Challenge of Re-Membering as We Contend with Digitisation and Freedom of Information.- Chapter 19: In Search for Repair: Reflections on Grief, the Repaired and Reparations.
Deborah N Mc Fee has worked at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad & Tobago WI since 2005, her area of research is Gender and Public Policy. Tracie A Rogers is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Psychology, and Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica. Her academic work is grounded in anti-oppressive principles, decolonising, and participatory research methodologies.
