Rachel Goffe

Rachel Goffe is a geographer and architect. Her work is concerned with place-making and livelihood and how these are negotiated with, through and against state formation. She investigates transformations of the postcolonial state by researching the mobility of the boundary around “formal” relationships to land, and space more broadly. She has done research on the encounter between emerging public policy to curtail squatting and Caribbean radical traditions linked to durable yet insecure land tenure. Her next project investigates how global legalized cannabis policy shifts the Jamaican landscape. While Rachel’s work is sited in Jamaica, it aims to intervene in theories regarding incomplete enclosure and racial capitalism, social reproduction, and abolition geographies.

Publications

Goffe, R. (in press). “What Lies Here, beyond Boundary?” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 73(3).

Goffe, R. and N. Luke. (2024). “What does capital consume? Racial capitalism and the social reproduction of surplus people.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. OnlineFirst.

Goffe, R. (2024) “Capture Land as Abolition Geography: The Mutuality of Placemaking and Flight.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 42(1): 17–35.

Goffe, R. (2023) “Capture Land: Anti-Squatting Policy as Processual Land Grab in Jamaica.” In Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing. Andreas Neef, Chanrith Ngin, Tsegaye Moreda, and Sharlene Mollett, editors. Routledge.

Goffe, R. (2023) “Reproducing the Plot: Making Life in the Shadow of Premature Death.” Special Issue, Outside the Wage. Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography. 55(4): 985-1295.