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Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies

Prof. Don D. Marshall

Prof. Don D. Marshall

University Director

Department: SALISES

Bio

Prof. Marshall received a Bachelor of Arts with (Hons) in History and Political Science (1991) and a Master of Philosophy in Political Science (1993), from The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.  He started doctoral studies at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the United Kingdom in April 1994, achieving a Ph.D. in International Political Economy in June 1996, a period of two years, two months – for which he remains one of their outstanding international alumni and record holder in the Newcastle University’s Department of Politics!

Don Marshall began his career at the Cave Hill Campus in August 1996 in the Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work as a Temporary Lecturer. One year later, he was appointed as Research Fellow at the renowned Institute of Social and Economic Research, later renamed the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies or SALISES.

The Institute is also the home of the Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, and the older and distinguished Social and Economic Studies (produced out of SALISES Mona), two of the leading academic journals of Caribbean social science research.  Professor Marshall sits on the editorial boards of the JECS and other key scholarly journals such as The University of Helsinki’s Globalisations and The University of London’s Progress in Development Studies. He has also served as reviewer of several manuscripts for several journals and academic publishers.

Prof. Marshall would have been granted indefinite tenure by The UWI in 2002; and was successful in his application and review for promotion to Senior Research Fellow in 2005.  Over the course of his career he has authored Caribbean Political Economy at the Crossroads: NAFTA and Regional Developmentalism - published by Palgrave Macmillan; co-authored two edited collections – “The Empowering Impulse: The Nationalist Tradition of Barbados (University of West Indies Press) and “Living at the Borderlines: Issues in Caribbean Sovereignty and Development (Ian Randle Press); wrote over 10 book chapters, co-authored eight monographs, and authored 16 full articles in leading academic journals.

His body of work has centred on addressing the Caribbean International Political Economy complex over time with the express aim of highlighting where development transformation is possible, via the structural opportunities on offer at specific conjunctures. He critiques Anglo-American globalisation, conceives of globalisations, locates the Caribbean development problematic within such an imaginary and argues that alternative, sustainable futures are possible. Since 2007 onwards, his focus turned to industrial policy issues and democracy and governance in the Eastern and wider Caribbean. His other published works critically examines the role of Caribbean international financial centres in the global geography of financial services provision.  Here he questions the authority and legitimacy of `scientific finance’ as a discourse; while still probing the utility of financialisation as a concept arguing that its formulations ought to take into account the role of non-Western spaces in shaping credit, financial engineering and other forms of warehousing and servicing finance.

Prof. Marshall remains and active cricketer and road tennis player.  He considers being Nia and Yohance’s Dad as his best accomplishments and rates his sport, love of Caribbean music and community service in a nearby St. Michael community the keys to his work/life balance.

Prof. Marshall was appointed University Director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, effective 1 August 2022.

Qualifications

BA (Hons), MPhil (University of the West Indies)
PhD (University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne)

Teaching Areas

SALI6205 Global Political Economy (MSc Development Studies)
INTR6118 Globalization and Global Governance (Master's in International Trade Policy)

Select Publications

  • Marshall, Don, D. (2020). Global Ordering Structures and Caribbean Offshore Financial Centres, London and New York: Routledge Publishers. ISBN-10: 1409446492.
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  • Marshall, D, J. Lashley and H. DeShong (2019) ‘Living in the Present: Caribbean Youth Not in Education, Not in Employment and Not in Training’ in Laurence Telson, Cynthia Marie Hobbs, Maria Jose Flor Agreda and Leslie Hunter (eds) Masculinity in the Caribbean: Why Does It Matter, Washington, Inter-American Development Bank. pp.117-176. 59 pages.
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  • Marshall, D. (2018). ‘`Crisis Narratives, Debt and Development Adjustment: Contemplating Caribbean Small Island States’ Futures’ in A. Nayar and K. Tobin (eds.) Reimagining Regionalism: Heterodox and Feminist Policy Alternatives from Africa and the Caribbean, Bonn: International Policy Analysis, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. pp.33- 40.
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  • Marshall, D. (2017). “Rihanna as Global Icon and Caribbean Threshold Figure”, in H. Beckles and H.D. Russell (eds) Rihanna: Barbados World-Gurl in Global Popular Culture Kingston, Mona: University of the West Indies Press. pp.38-73.
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  • Marshall, D. (2016). ‘Whose and What World Order? Fanon and the Salience of the Caribbean Reparations Endeavour. Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, 41(2 & 3): 166-180.


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Additional Info

  • "Caribbean Development Theory and Praxis: State of the Art". Presented at the SALISES Development Talks 2014. Queen's Park Steel Shed, Bridgetown, Barbados, October 15, 2014.
  • ‘A Caribbean Sclerosis towards Economic Growth?’ An Address to Chamber of Commerce and Industry, June 25, 2014, Barbados Hilton Hotel.
  • “Markets, Morality and the Common Good: Reflecting on Citizenship and the Caribbean”. Presented as part of the SALISES Seminar Series March 08, 2011.
  • “Hobbes’ Leviathan Re-Presented: Patriarchy, State/Sovereignty and Masculinity”.  Presented at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, UWI, Biennial Symposium – ‘Contemporary Issues in Caribbean Research on Gender and Feminism’, February 24–25, 2011.