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111 gap statements mined from Caribbean history, culture, and politics papers in our 4.5M-paper local library, which holds 1,692 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.

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  • Further research could explore the impact of Naish's works on contemporary discussions on reconciliation. The paper suggests that Naish's writings could inform a deeper understanding of the past and its reflection on the present.

    ‘Not many free colour folks lef’ round here’: Truth-telling in the sugar country narratives of John Naish · 2026 · DOI

  • Table 9 provides details of the appraisals and whether or not additional evidence was provided and the change to the OIR/AWR recommendation (new evidence for other recommendations included within the guidance is not noted in the table). In the majority of reviewed appraisals (n = 7), new evidence informing the OIR/AWR recommendation was available for the review.

    Material Gworls: Consumption and Cosmopolitanism From Jamaica to Japan · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research could explore the use of participatory digital and co-creative methods in other contexts. Future research could explore the use of arts and humanities-based methods in promoting social sustainability in other regions. Future research could explore the importance of documenting and archiving culturally significant memories of participating youth and their elders in other contexts.

    Shaping Caribbean social sustainability through memory: connecting youth, food heritage, and sustainable futures through the recipes for resilience project · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a lack of research on the emergence of transfeminism in Puerto Rico. The study fills a gap in understanding the convergence of feminist and trans politics within a coalitional framework.

    Transfeminism in Puerto Rico · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper argues that mainstream Western feminist thought has prioritized the experiences of white, Western women, neglecting the experiences of non-Western women. The paper seeks to address this gap by analyzing Jamaica Kincaid's novel Annie John from a postcolonial feminist perspective.

    Metamorphosis From Innocence Into Experience: Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John From a Postcolonial Feminist Perspective · 2026 · DOI

  • Whether late seventeenth-century Jamaica, where the English took over Spanish-built houses, saw the development of "the creole house" remains an open question, but the settlers' building traditions were creolizing fast, despite the counter-impulse to employ fashionable English styles in a frontier society.

    Jamaican Architectures before Georgian · 2001 · DOI

  • Further research could explore the implications of the Caribcan proposal for Canadian trade policy and relations with the Caribbean. Further research could examine the potential benefits and challenges of a political union between Canada and the West Indies.

    Canada and the Caribbean · 1987 · DOI

  • Further research could examine the specific mechanisms by which organized crime exercises control over the Bahamian economy. The impact of organized crime on other sectors of the Bahamian economy could be studied.

    Masters of paradise island: Organized crime, neo-colonialism, and the Bahamas · 1987 · DOI

  • There is a gap in understanding the internal layout of plantations and their impact on the lives of people. The study aims to fill this gap by analyzing the spatial economy of Jamaican sugar plantations.

    The spatial economy of Jamaican sugar plantations: cartographic evidence from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries · 1987 · DOI

  • Future research should continue to explore the similarities and differences between the Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean female Bildungsroman. Future research should consider the cultural and historical context of the experiences of growing up black. Future research should aim to develop a deeper understanding of the experiences of black youth in different cultural contexts.

    One Mother, Two Daughters: The Afro-American and the Afro-Caribbean FemaleBildungsroman · 1986 · DOI

  • There is a lack of comparative studies of the Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean female Bildungsroman. The experiences of growing up black in these two areas are understudied.

    One Mother, Two Daughters: The Afro-American and the Afro-Caribbean FemaleBildungsroman · 1986 · DOI

  • The development of a new type of obeah in Jamaica is not well understood.

    William Lauron DeLaurence and Jamaican Folk Religion · 1986 · DOI

  • The lack of distinctive regional substyles in Canadian country music. The need for Canadian country music to develop its own images and myths of place.

    ‘TEXAS (WHEN I DIE)’: NATIONAL IDENTITY AND IMAGES OF PLACE IN CANADIAN COUNTRY MUSIC BROADCASTS · 1983 · DOI

  • The lack of a consensus on party ideology and policy made it difficult to implement the government's programs. Internal ideological debates generated hostility and sent confusing signals to the larger public.

    Democratic Socialism in Dependent Capitalism: An Analysis of the Manley Government in Jamaica · 1983 · DOI

  • The study highlights the need to analyze the balance of class forces, the level of development of the political movement, and state capacity in progress on a development path.

    Democratic Socialism in Dependent Capitalism: An Analysis of the Manley Government in Jamaica · 1983 · DOI

  • The existing literature on the postcolonial state in Trinidad and Tobago is limited. The paper identifies the need for a more nuanced understanding of the interaction between class and race in the context of the postcolonial state.

    Class, Race, and the State in Trinidad and Tobago · 1983 · DOI

  • Categories and type of guidance Each sequence of assessment and decision leads to different categories and ‘types’ of guidance for technologies with differing characteristics, indications and target populations, that is, each sequence of ‘yes’ or ‘no’ judgements in the checklist defines a single pathway leading to a particular type and category of guidance (see Table 32, Appendix 4).

    Material Gworls: Consumption and Cosmopolitanism From Jamaica to Japan · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper notes that the idea of a political union between Canada and the West Indies has been considered but not implemented.

    Canada and the Caribbean · 1987 · DOI

  • It is important, however, that the conflict between themselves and the whites not be seen as limited to the acquisition of civil rights for the freedmen, as part of a drive toward the 'maximization of their status'and eventual incorporation into the existing society, but as a conflict having to do with the way the society was ordered and its future.

    Marginality and free coloured identity in Caribbean slave society · 1987 · DOI

  • The influence of organized crime on the tourist industry is a significant area of study.

    Masters of paradise island: Organized crime, neo-colonialism, and the Bahamas · 1987 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the literature on Indigenous-white relationships and dispossession in tropical north Queensland. Naish's works fill this gap by providing a unique perspective on the experiences of Indigenous people in the 1950s.

    ‘Not many free colour folks lef’ round here’: Truth-telling in the sugar country narratives of John Naish · 2026 · DOI

  • The project identifies a gap in the development of culturally nuanced approaches to social sustainability in the Caribbean. The project identifies a gap in the use of arts and humanities-based methods to enable youth participants to question and envision ways of overcoming the Caribbean's history of socio-economic and ecological struggle.

    Shaping Caribbean social sustainability through memory: connecting youth, food heritage, and sustainable futures through the recipes for resilience project · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should continue to develop the concept of transdisciplinary ethics - Future research should explore the implications of transdisciplinary ethics for different contexts and fields…

    Otredad, diversidad y vínculo: Hacia una ética transdisciplinar desde el Caribe · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in current research as the need for a transdisciplinary approach to ethics - The paper argues that current approaches to ethics are limited by their failure to account for epistemic…

    Otredad, diversidad y vínculo: Hacia una ética transdisciplinar desde el Caribe · 2026 · DOI

  • Overall, the exploration H/HA youth’s geographic narratives brings fresh attention to this understudied group of learners, infuses Black geographic thought into writing instruction, and forefronts the specific ways Black transnational youth use writing as anti-colonial projects.

    The Black Geographic Narratives of Haitian and Haitian American Youth · 2025 · DOI

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Open questions raised by papers listed on this page include: (1) Further research could explore the impact of Naish's works on contemporary discussions on reconciliation (“‘Not many free colour folks lef’ round here’: Truth-telling in the sugar…”, 2026); (2) Future research could explore the use of participatory digital and co-creative methods in other contexts (“Shaping Caribbean social sustainability through memory: connecting youth, food…”, 2026); (3) There is a lack of research on the emergence of transfeminism in Puerto Rico (“Transfeminism in Puerto Rico”, 2026); (4) Further research could explore the implications of the Caribcan proposal for Canadian trade policy and relations with the Caribbean (“Canada and the Caribbean”, 1987); (5) Further research could examine the specific mechanisms by which organized crime exercises control over the Bahamian economy (“Masters of paradise island: Organized crime, neo-colonialism, and the Bahamas”, 1987). 111 gap statements have been mined from Caribbean history, culture, and politics papers in our 4.5M-paper local library, which holds 1,692 papers on the topic; the gaps come from whichever of those papers state one. They are mostly the research gaps the authors state and the papers' abstracts, plus future-work, limitations and challenges passages. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one, so you can read the original claim in context.

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