Phillip Beckles-Raymond
I am a creative, anti-disciplinary economist and transgressive educator. I practise the art of transforming society through the harnessing of creative energies. I am passionate about economics as an emancipatory ethic of love, that is intersectionally just and committed to the joyful realisation of the highest expression of human potential.
Having lived, studied, played and worked internationally, I use my Trini background, African-American liberal arts training and London-based Black Atlantic glocal platform to collaborate on projects that seek to imagine, realise and celebrate the value embedded what it means to be human. I have worked across a range of sectors including tax, public policy, international relations, education and culture.
Teaching
I teach/learn economics as a practice of valuing human creativity and the critical study of historical and ongoing approaches to understanding such practice, particularly within the Black Atlantic. As such, my teaching invokes humanities, social sciences and other knowledges to encourage a reflexive, dialogical encounter with learning as critical consciousness, as becoming and as transforming the world.
I have taught internationally in and beyond the classroom setting, across a range of levels and on topics including; economic history and philosophy; politics, people and power, creating value and exploring business, international development and its alternatives, global black communities and culture.
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Qualifications
- MA History - Political Economy (University of Memphis)
- BSc Hons Economics and Math (Morgan State University)
- PG Cert Higher Education
Research
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Research and publications
My current research interests include:
- Liv Good: The intersectionally just good life
- Meta-Masquerade: Trinidad and Tobago Carnival as philosophy
- The Mundane Miraculous: the transformative value of everyday practice
- Black Personhood: Opting out of the Patriarchal Promise
- Economics and spirituality
- Critical/Engaged Pedagogy
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Conferences
February 2024 - Black in the City of London Podcast Series. Interview with Jonathan Goddard.
October 2023 – ‘Carnival, Liv Good and Derrick Bell’s Rules of Racial Standing,’ with Dr. Gabriella Beckles-Raymond. Resistant Knowledges Gathering, Critical Race Theory Collective. Read the Resistant Knowledges Gathering 2023 on the CRT Collective website.
July 2023 – ‘Bio-economic public pedagogy: When Being Human IS the Assessment’ Festival of Teaching and Learning, Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, University of West London.
July 2023 – ‘Assessment Fraud: Towards a Reflexive Ethics of Consideration and Strategies for Avoidance’ Festival of Teaching and Learning, Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, University of West London.
November 2022 – Report Respondent: Variation in Black students’ conceptions of academic support: A phenomenographic study. British Education Research Association, Race Equality in Education Series. Read the BERA Variation in Black students’ conceptions of academic support: A phenomenographic study.
July 2022 – ‘Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: Conceptual Tool / Interventionist Methodology from the classroom to the workplace’, with Dr Tricia Tikasingh, Festival of Teaching and Learning, Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, University of West London. Read the Festival of Learning and Teaching 2022 on CampusPress.
December 2020 – Breaking Ranks, Breaking Bread Series, Online Discussion Events, Vols. 1-6. Black Thought Collective. Watch the Black Thought Collective: Breaking Ranks, Breaking Bread Series - Episode 1 "What is Thought?" on YouTube.
July 2020 – Global Knowledges, English Universities and the Ideology of Inclusivity, Making Reading Lists Inclusive, Online Webinar hosted by UWL Library Services, University of West London.
August 2019 – 'New(ish?) Wine in Old Wineskins: Tax, Development and White Supremacy', International Studies Association, Global South Agency Conference, hosted by The University of Ghana, Accra. View the Accra 2019 - Full Program.
November 2017 – ‘Economics for Liberation – Resisting Capitalist Values’. Black Education for Liberation in Dialogue with Latin America, Conference hosted by Birmingham City University’s Black Studies Association.
