Halimah DeShong

Title

Halimah DeShong

Birthplace

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Primary Sources

Deshong, H.A. (2024). Gendered Violence and Gender as a Site of Violence: Reflections from the Caribbean. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 45(2), 79-101. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/fro.2024.a935657.

DeShong, H.A.F. (2023). In the ‘Shadow’ of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Naming Gendered Violence in the Era of a Global Health Crisis. In Roberts, S., DeShong, H.A.F., Grenade, W.C., Devonish, D. (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on COVID-19 and the Caribbean, Volume 2. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31119-2_2

DeShong, H.A.F., Devonish, D., Grenade, W.C., Roberts, S. (2023). Afterword: Re-imagining Caribbean Futures Post-COVID-19. In Roberts, S., DeShong, H.A.F., Grenade, W.C., Devonish, D. (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Covid-19 and the Caribbean, Volume 1. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30889-5_25

Deshong, H.A., & Kempadoo, K. (Eds.). (2021). Methodologies in Caribbean research on gender and sexuality. Ian Randle Publishers.

DeShong, H.A., & Crawford, C. (2019). Gender, sexuality and feminism in the Caribbean: Transdisciplinary engagements. Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, 44(2), 1–11. https://www.jecsonline.com/journals/volume-42-no-3-december-2017/

Deshong, H.A. (2017). The language of partner violence in the Caribbean: A decolonial feminist analysis. In Joosen, K. & Bailey, C.(Eds.), Caribbean crime and criminal justice (pp. 123–138). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315403786

DeShong, H. A. F. (2017). “The Will to Forget”: Silence and Minimisation in Men’s Talk on Violence. Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, 42(3), 80–96.

Deshong, H.A., & Haynes, T. (2016). Intimate partner violence in the Caribbean: State, activist and media responses. Global Public Health, 11(1-2), 82–94. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2015.1012529

Deshong, H.A. (2015). Policing femininity, affirming masculinity: Relationship violence, control and spatial limitation. Journal of Gender Studies, 24(1), 85–103. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2013.833087

Secondary Sources

Roberts, S., DeShong, H. A., Grenade, W. C., & Devonish, D. (Eds.). (2023). Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Covid-19 and the Caribbean, Volume 1: The State, Economy and Health. Springer Nature. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-30889-5

Tamale, S. (2021). Methodologies in Caribbean research on gender and sexuality. Feminist Africa, 2(2), 121–125. https://journals.ug.edu.gh/index.php/fa/article/view/1521

Gomes, S., & Sanatan, A. (2021). Symbolic violence in the postcolonial Anglo-Caribbean. In Bissessar, A.M.(Ed.), Gender and domestic violence in the Caribbean, 23–38. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-73472-5

Haynes, T., & DeShong, H. A. F. (2017). Queering Feminist Approaches to Gender-based Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean. Social and Economic Studies, 66(1/2), 105–131. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44732906

Extra Resources

Connell, C., & De Shong, H. (2014, September 23). Unrendered with Chester Connell & Dr. Halimah DeShong - Part 1. The Coloniality of Everything. YouTube. Accessed March 26, 2023. https://youtu.be/VTn5ANHK06o

Cave Hill. (n.d.). Meet the faculty: Dr. Halimah DeShong. Accessed March 26, 2023. https://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/meetfaculty/home/dr-halimah-deshong.aspx

Caribbean Studies Association. (n.d.). Halimah DeShong. Accessed March 26, 2023. https://www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/halimah-deshong/

Collection

Caribbean

Citation

“Halimah DeShong,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 11, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/197.

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