The risks have been amplified in recent weeks by a slew of developments.įirst came word that China’s economy had slowed substantially in the spring, extinguishing hopes of a robust expansion after the lifting of extreme Covid restrictions. Long the centerpiece of a profit-enhancing version of globalization, China has devolved into the ultimate wild card in a moment of extraordinary uncertainty for the world’s economy. Now that engine is sputtering, posing alarming risks for Chinese households and economies around the planet. As its 1.4 billion people gained an appetite for the wares of the world - Hollywood movies, South Korean electronics, iron ore mined in Australia - the global economy was propelled by a seemingly inexhaustible engine. At the moment Beverley has two major interests: the first is in the growing importance of the middle-class as a space of renewed economic growth within policy circles, the second is in the capacity of diasporic dialogue to disrupt the hegemony of neoliberal rationalities.For more than a quarter-century, China has been synonymous with relentless development and upward mobility. She has an ongoing interest in exploring how landscapes of labour and work in the Caribbean are being restructured in response to external shifts and shocks in the global economy, as well as, by the everyday struggles and negotiations enacted by people in their bid to socially reproduce themselves. She is interested in understanding how neoliberal rationalities across the global South are changing local geometries of power. She is a member of GenUrb's Comparative Research Team. Her research is located within the field of feminist political economy and engages broad questions of social transformation, neoliberalism, and the politics of gender, race, and class in the Caribbean and its diaspora. Beverley Mullings is Associate Professor of Geography (cross-appointed with Gender Studies) and Queen’s National Scholar at Queen’s University, Canada.
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