Grandma’s hands: transgenerational inheritances of Jamaican food and land practices

This thesis traces how Jamaican land and food practices function as sites of knowledge, cultural continuity, and care across migration and generation. Adopting relational ethnographic methods and carried out in rural Jamaica and with British-Caribbean growers in London, it explores how embodied and situated ways of knowing persist. This research paper argues for the importance of recognising these daily practices as vital epistemologies, responsible for sustaining knowledge, cultural belonging, and ecological ethics in diasporic life.