Dr. Doreen Gordon
Doreen Gordon joined the Institute of Gender and Development Studies, Regional Headquarters, in January 2024. She brings with her over 12 years of professional experience in the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences.
Research Interests:
Social stratification and inequality
Gender and kinship
The body and beauty practices
Health and wellbeing
Climate change and social justice issues.
Her strengths are in qualitative and ethnographic research, and she has a particular interest in decolonial and creative methods.
Publications:
Book:
Gordon, D. 2022. Blackness and Social Mobility in Brazil: Contemporary Transformations. Palgrave Macmillan.
Book Chapter
Gordon, D., Ricketts, H, Anderson, M. and Yee-Shui, M. (2023). “Unequal Pandemics: COVID 19 and Jamaica.” In COVID 19: States and Societies, edited by Federica Duca and Sarah Meny-Gibert.
Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003321545-8/uneq...
