Aleem Mahabir- BSc Geography (Hons)
- PhD Candidate at University of the West Indies
Aleem Mahabir
- BSc Geography (Hons)
- PhD Candidate at University of the West Indies
Geographies of Urban Inequality and Urban Sustainability
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Introduction
I am a PhD candidate at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. My research interests lie at the intersection of Urban Social Geography and Psychology. My dissertation focuses on the link between psychosocial dispositions, exclusion, and under-development among marginalized populations in Caribbean cities.
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Despite lacking the resources to adequately adhere to public health protocols, urban residents belonging to impoverished communities in Kingston, Jamaica were prominently featured in local news reports that highlighted their breaches of social distancing. These reports generated an overwhelmingly prejudiced online social discourse, characterized by...
Crime and policing policies derived from the Global North are being imported by law enforcement agencies in the Global South. It may be pertinent to question the adaptability of these policies to different development contexts that may not fall in the realm of an "ideal operational environment". Using Compstat's implementation by the Trinidad and T...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant impacts on Jamaica's tourism industry. In an industry already exposed to a multiplicity of challenges ranging from climatic change to globalization, the imposition of the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in both pace and magnitude. Accommodation workers in the tourism industry are particularly vulnerable...
Amid the multitude of economic effects emanating from impositions of COVID-19, workers in the tourism sector are potentially experiencing significant psychosocial impacts. These effects are compounded by the uncertainty of pathways for positive change and the precariousness of adjustments to life and livelihoods. Their attitudes to the newly impose...
The "Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Toolkit for Disaster Planning, Training, and Relief Efforts in CDEMA Participating States" is a comprehensive resource designed to enhance the capacity of disaster management and humanitarian actors in the Caribbean region to address mental health and psychosocial needs during emergencies. This to...
During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Jamaica, video news reports were regularly posted online highlighting breaches of social distancing within several impoverished communities found in Jamaica’s capital, Kingston. Despite lacking the resources and innate capacity needed to adequately adhere to public health mandates, the poor urban populat...
