Dennis Saavedra Carquin-Hamichand
I’m Dennis Saavedra Carquin-Hamichand, a Guyanese doctoral researcher. My work focuses on suicide in Guyana, critical suicidology, decolonial and Christian ethics, Caribbean thought, migration, and despair.
This site brings together my public writing on suicide prevention, social suffering, colonial history, religion, shame, silence, and the failures of care. The main question guiding my work is this: what do we see when we stop treating suicide only as an individual mental health crisis and begin looking at the wider historical, political, economic, spiritual, and communal conditions where despair takes root? This is all coming as I am writing my dissertation.
I’ll be posting every two weeks: an essay, poetry, and, at times, just something I’ve read. As I said before, most of it will be based on my research, so if you’re interested, this is where you’ll keep up with how that’s going.
Academic Publications
“Does Home Have a Border? Expanding the Boundaries: Bodies with Multiple Homes” Chapter in Dynamics of Caribbean Diaspora Engagement – Perspectives on the Caribbean Diaspora: An Exposition on Research, Pathways and Identity, University of Guyana Press
“Notes from the Fault Line” Journal of Auto-Academia (JOAA)
“Guyanese Foods Global Entanglements” Chapter in Food Fight | How What We Eat Is Weaponized
Bridging Disciplines and Communities – Vol. 1 No. 2 (2024): The Scholarly In-Between: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Culture, Literature, and the Humanities