Dr. Keston Perry

Lecturer in Economics

About Dr. Keston Perry

Dr Keston Perry is lecturer in Economics at the University of the West of England, Bristol. His work examines climate finance, climate justice and global development issues with particular reference to low-income and resource wealthy countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. His recent work was published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Energy Research and Social Science, International Journal of Development Issues, and the International Journal of Political Economy. He recently completed a report on climate reparations with the UN Association of the United Kingdom and is currently writing a book which focuses on the role of global finance in limiting the developmental potential of national institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean with Routledge. Previously, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and served as an external advisor for the United Nations Development Program.

Areas of Interest

Climate finance (loss and damage and mitigation)
climate justice and reparations
climate policy
energy and development
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Get in touch

Twitter @kestontnt

Location

Country of residence

United Kingdom

Countries of operation

Haiti

Publications

Information on Research: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0783-2083 and www.kestonperry.com Selected publications (in press) ‘For politics, people or the planet? The political economy of fossil fuel reform, energy dependence and climate policy in Haiti’, Energy Research and Social Sciences 63. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101397. ‘Structuralism and Human Development: A Seamless Marriage? An Assessment of Poverty, Production and Environmental Challenges in CARICOM Countries’, International Journal of Political Economy 49 (3), 222-242. doi: 10.1080/08911916.2020.1824735. ‘The Triple Crisis of debt, demand and decarbonisation: the impact of COVID-19 on commodity dependent developing countries,’ (online) International Journal of Development Issues, doi:10.1108/IJDI-07-2020-0166. Working papers ‘Financing a Global Green New Deal: tensions between “greening’ capitalism, rene wable energy transitions, and taming financialization under a new “civilizing” multilateralism’, under review at Development and Change (invited contribution to Special Forum). ‘(Un)Just transitions, race and the underserving South: White workers, Caribbean climate refugees and the political economy of climate justice’, invited contribution for Special Issue on Race and Climate Change in Politics (under review) The New ‘Bond-age’, climate crisis and the case for reparations: unpicking old/new colonialities of finance for development in the Sustainable Development Goals’ under review at Environment and Planning D: Space and Society