Memorial Mural of Roundhead
Academic research on street art in Jamaica, thinking through the social and political work that memorial murals perform in neighbourhoods, and what they reveal about structures of inequality and tension in the wider city space.
I am also interested in working outside of the traditional parameters of academic research, adopting a practice that prioritizes conversation over writing and communal learning over the individualist research process.
PUBLICATIONS
Meikle, T., & Jaffe, R. (2021). Scripts héroïques. Le cas de Christopher «Dudus» Coke [portfolio]. Terrain. Anthropologie & sciences humaines, (74).
Meikle, T. (2020). The Multivalency of Memorial Murals in Kingston, Jamaica: A Photo-Essay. Interventions, 22(1), 106-115.
Meikle, T., & Jaffe, R. (2015). " Police as the new don"? An assessment of post-Dudus policing strategies in Jamaica. Caribbean Journal of Criminology, 1.
GRANTS
Centre for Urban Studies UvA Grant (€10,000) for organization of parallel art residency program ‘Queering the Urban: Kingston/Montego Bay, Nairobi, Amsterdam and Beyond’ (with Francesco Colona).
Centre for Urban Studies UvA Travel Grant ((€2,000) – Visiting Scholar at the Art History Department at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performance Art in Kingston, Jamaica.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
‘Visual Culture and Criminal Iconization: The Meaning and Function of Visual Images in the Perpetuation of Donmanship and Crime in Inner-City Communities in Jamaica’, international conference ‘Contemporary Caribbean Visual Culture’, University of Birmingham, UK
‘Replacing the Negative with the Positive? Morality, Authority and Urban Inequalities in Jamaican Street Art’, Caribbean Studies Association annual conference, New Orleans, USA
‘Art and Criminal Sovereignty: Visual Traditions of Power in Inner-City Kingston, Jamaica’, Rex Nettleford Arts Conference, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston, Jamaica,
‘Popular Culture as a Site of Struggle: Authority and Urban Inequalities in Jamaican Street Art’, international seminar ‘Art and Urban Inequalities’, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
‘Sensing Togetherness: Aesthetics and the Political Imagination in Inner-city Kingston’, Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NALACS) conference ‘Cities and Citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean’, Delft, The Netherlands
‘The Role of Memorial Murals in Community Mythscapes and Identity Formation’, Society for Caribbean Studies annual conference, University of Newcastle, UK
‘Aesthetics and the Legitimation of Criminal Authorities in Kingston, Jamaica’, British Society of Criminology annual conference, Nottingham, UK
‘Aesthetic Impact and the Consolidation of Power in Inner-City Jamaica’ Graduate Seminar, Department of Psychology, Sociology and Social Work, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
‘Iconization of Donmanship in Visual Culture in Kingston, Jamaica’, international workshop ‘Representation of Jamaican Organized Crime’, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
‘“A the Living Him”: The Aesthetic Process and Impact of Memorial Murals in Kingston, Jamaica’, Society for Caribbean Studies annual conference, University of Essex, UK
‘Visual Culture and Criminal Iconization’, American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, USA
‘Memorial Murals and the Politics of Difference in Kingston, Jamaica’, Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Havana, Cuba