Biography
Dr. Riddell has been at Queen's University since 1969. He has taught
and conducted research on issues related to underdevelopment in the Third
World. His empirical research has focussed on Sub-Saharan Africa as well
as Trinidad & Tobago in the Caribbean. As well as the normal academic
role at Queen's, Dr. Riddell has been a long-time member of the Canadian
Association of African Studies, and has served as editor of their journal
(Canadian Journal of African Studies) from 1991-2000 and from 2003- present.
Teaching Interests
The focus of my undergraduate teaching has been in courses related to
Third World Underdevelopment, Africa, and Economic Geography.
Graduate teaching has centred on issues related to underdevelopment in
the Third World. At Queen's I have supervised 35 graduate theses, with
empirical work based in Ghana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria,
Swaziland, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Cambodia, and Mexico. The focus
of the African research has included topics such as population migration,
refugee movements, housing, internal colonialism, the making of colonial
space-economies, mine labour, the informal economy, farm decision-making,
uneven development, migrant remittances, urban poverty, the use of housing
in coping, the privatisation of waste management, and traditional health
services. Caribbean work has emphasised migration, regional grouping,
the politics behind housing supply, Non Governmental aid, the conversion
of water supply from public to private, peasant agriculture, and population
growth. Work in other parts of the Third World has emphasised the food
crisis, environmental degradation, the colonial economy, peasant life,
violence & the control of space, and foreign aid.
Research
My academic endeavours have focussed upon the experience of change, development,
and underdevelopment in the Third World. This work has investigated the
spread of change, transport network evolution, population migration, periodic
marketing, the Third World state's role in redistribution, urban bias,
the food crisis, the expression of themes of change in literature, structural
adjustment programmes and impacts, international financial institutions,
globalization, methods of survival, the spread of modernization, debt
relief programmes, and landscapes of coping, and the nature of geographical
investigation in the Third World - i.e. I'm interested in the 'actors'
that shape the landscape of the Third World.
Publications
Riddell, J.B. "Urban Bias, Redistribution, and State Collapse: The
lessons of Sierra Leone" chapter in R. Cline-Cole & E. Robson,
West African Worlds: Local and Regional Paths through 'Development', Modernity
and Globalization, (Pearson Educational, 2005).
Riddell, J.B. "Sierra Leone: Urban-Elite Bias, Atrocity, and Debt,"
Review of African Political Economy. 32, 103 (2005), 115-133
Riddell, J.B. "The Face of Neo-liberalism in the Third World: Landscapes
of coping in Trinidad and Tobago," Canadian Journal of Development
Studies 24,4 (2003), 593-615.
Riddell, J.B. "A Tale of Contestation, Disciples and Damned: The
lessons of the spread of globalization into Trinidad & Tobago"
Environment & Planning A 35, 4 (2003), 659-78.
Riddell, J.B. ed 2000 Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne
des etudes africaines 34 (1), 34 (2), 34 (3)
Riddell, B., 1999 'Symptoms or causes of the crisis of the third world:
beyond the coming anarchy' Canadian Journal of Development Studies 20(1)
(1999), 181-188
Riddell, J.B. 1998 Ed. Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne
des etudes africaines 31,(1), 31 (2), 31 (3)
Riddell, J.B. 1997 ed Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne
des etudes africaines 30 (1), 30 (2), 30 (3)
Riddell, J.B. 1997 'On mobility in the southern city suburbs: residential
relocation in Trinidad and Tobago' Applied Geographic Studies 1 (2), 115-128
Riddell, J.B. 1997 'Stuctural Adjustment Programmes and the City in Tropical
Africa' Urban Studies 34(8): 1297-1307
Riddell, J.B. 1995 'Things Fall Apart Again: structural adjustment programmes
in Sub-Saharan Africa' In The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment,
(Sixth Edition) ed. K.P. Jameson and C.K. Wilber (New York: McGraw-Hill):
214-227
Riddell, J.B. 1995 'The Cruel Enigma: Development, International Finance
and Third World Poverty' Labour, Capital and Society 28(2): 215-222
Riddell, J.B. 1995 'The World Bank Speaks to Africa Yet Again' Canadian
Journal of African Studies, 29(2): 246-249
My editorial work is associated with the Canadian Journal of
African Studies and 70 review essays.
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Dr.
J. Barry Riddell
Biography