publications

EDITED JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

2021. Creating a Caribbean Sense of Place: Calypso, Spoken Word and the Oral Tradition. Edited by Paula Morgan and Amílcar Sanatan. Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies (1)

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

2021. “High Time to Break Up the Boys’ Club: The Gendered Politics of Spoken Word and Open Mic Spaces in Trinidad and Tobago.” Caribbean Journal of Education 43 (1): 109-128

EDITOR-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS

2023. “Nostalgia for the Future: Student Activism of the Caribbean Left.” In Handbook of Civil Society and Social Movements in Small States, edited by Lino Briguglio, Michael Briguglio, Sheila Bunwaree and Claire Slatter, 332-343. London and New York: Routledge

2022. “Like Walking a Tightrope: Leadership, Youth Empowerment and Organisational Culture in Political Youth Wings in Trinidad and Tobago.” In Youth Participation in the Caribbean: Politics and Development, edited by Terri-Ann Gilbert-Roberts, 104-122. London and New York: Routledge

2021. Gomes, Shelene and Amílcar Sanatan. Symbolic Violence in the Postcolonial Anglo-Caribbean.” In Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean, edited by Ann Marie Bissessar and Camille Huggins, 23-38. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan

ESSAYS AND COMMENTARIES IN REFEREED FORMATS

2021. “Introduction – Voice Tracks: Creating a Caribbean Sense of Place.” Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies 6 (1): 1-6

2018. Sanatan, Amílcar, Raegan Gibbings and Shalinee Bahadur. “Forward Ever with Jacqueline Creft: The Paradox of Women’s Liberation in the Caribbean Revolutionary Left.” History in Action 6 (1): 26-34

2016. “The Internet is Cool, Scholarship is Cold and Beyoncé is a Feminist: Reflections on the Popular Action Assignment in Introduction to Women’s Studies.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 10: 149-162

INTERVIEWEES IN REFEREED FORMATS

2021. “Writing and Performing the Nation: An Interview with Paul Keens-Douglas on Orality and Caribbean Literature.” Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies 6 (1): 1-17

2019. “I Want to Disturb my Neighbour: An Interview with Henry Charles on Youth Movements, Empowerment and the Role of National Youth Councils in Caribbean Development.” Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies 44 (3): 140-152

2019. “Writing is an Arsenal: An Interview with Colin Robinson.” sx salon 32 (October 2019)

2019. “A (Not So) New Day for Caribbean Literature and the Arts: An Interview with Marielle Barrow on Digital Humanities and Archiving Caribbean Culture.” Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies 5 (1): 1-9

2019. “Borders and Marxist Politics in the Caribbean: An Interview with Earl Bousquet on the Workers Revolutionary Movement in St. Lucia.” ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies 18 (1): 246-264

2018. “An Approach to Freedom: An Interview with Wesley Gibbings on Journalism and Activism in the Caribbean.” Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies 4 (2): 1-122017. “Social Media and Feminist Social Change in the Caribbean: An Interview with Ronelle King on #LifeInLeggings.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 11: 323-340

BOOK REVIEWS IN REFEREED FORMATS

2020. “Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise.” Journal of West Indian Literature 28 (2): 162-164

2020. “The Coup Clock Clicks.” Caribbean Quarterly 66 (4): 585-5882020. “On Reading Maps and Memory (Review of Canisia Lubrin’s Voodoo Hypothesis).” sx salon 33 (February 2020)

TECHNICAL REPORTS

2018. Hosein, Gabrielle, Tricia Basdeo-Gobin, Colin Robinson, Sabrina Mowlah-Baksh, Simone Leid and Amílcar Sanatan. Gender-Based Violence in Trinidad and Tobago: A Qualitative Study. Government of Trinidad and Tobago and UN Women Caribbean Multi-Country Office

OUTREACH PUBLICATIONS

2021. “Inhabiting Absence: Zion Roses (Review of Monica Minott’s Zion Roses).” International Poetry from Around the World Series, 2021

2020. “Engaging Men and Boys to End Gender-based Violence.” The Commonwealth (Blog). December 7, 2020

2020. “COVID-19, Masculinities and a Mandate for Gender Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Let’s Talk About Equality, IDB (Blog). November 11, 2020

2020. “COVID-19, Masculinidades y Mandato de Justicia de Género en América Latina y el Caribe.” Y si hablamos de igualdad, BID (Blog). November 10, 2020

2020. “A Poet Finds Paradise (Review of Roger Robinson’s A Portable Paradise).”Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. January 26, 2020

2020. “A University of Our Own.” Caribbean Beat Magazine (Jan/Feb 2020)

2019. “Student Protest at UWI St. Augustine.” 1968 Confrontations, UWI Museum (Blog). February 25, 2019

2017. “Re-launching the Caribbean’s New World Journal.” Stabroek News. July 10, 2017

2017. “The Ideal UWI Man.” UWI Today (January 2017)2016. “The Little-known Stories of Two Caribbean Revolutionary Women.” CARICOM Reparations. October 12, 2016