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The Caribbean
Bringing together the work of literary critics, social scientists, activists, and creative writers, this edited collection explores the complex relationships between environmental change, political struggle, and cultural production in the Caribbean. It ranges across the archipelago, with essays covering such topics as the literary representation of tropical storms and hurricanes, the cultural fallout from the Haitian earthquake of 2010, struggles over the rainforest in Guyana, and the role of colonial travel narratives in the reorganization of landscapes. The collection marks an important contribution to the fields of Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies, and ecocriticism. Through its deployment of the concept of ‘world-ecology’, it offers up a new angle of vision on the interconnections between aesthetics, ecology, and politics. The volume seeks to grasp these categories not as discrete (if overlapping) entities, but rather as differentiated moments within a single historical process. The ‘social’ changes through which the Caribbean has developed have always involved changes in the relationship between humans and the rest of nature; and these changes have long been entangled with the emergence of new kinds of cultural production. The contributors to this collection provide a series of unique insights into the relationship between aesthetic practice and specific ecological processes and pressure-points in the region. More than ever Caribbean writers and artists are engaging explicitly with environmental concerns in their work; this volume responds to that trend by bringing literary and cultural criticism into sustained dialogue with debates around local, national, and regional ecological issues.
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Islands at the Crossroads
A long sequence of social, cultural, and political
processes characterizes an ever-dynamic Caribbean history. The
Caribbean Basin is home to numerous linguistic and cultural
traditions and fluid interactions that often map imperfectly onto
former colonial and national traditions. Although much of this
contact occurred within the confines of local cultural
communities, regions, or islands, they nevertheless also include
exchanges between islands, and in some cases, with the
surrounding continents. recent research in the pragmatics of
seafaring and trade suggests that in many cases long-distance
intercultural interactions are crucial elements in shaping the
social and cultural dynamics of the local populations. The
contributors to
Islands at the Crossroads include scholars from the
Caribbean, the United States, and Europe who look beyond cultural
boundaries and colonial frontiers to explore the complex and
layered ways in which both distant and more intimate
sociocultural, political, and economic interactions have shaped
Caribbean societies from seven thousand years ago to recent
times.
Contributors Douglas V. Armstrong / Mary Jane
Berman / Arie Boomert / Alistair J. Bright / Richard T. Callaghan
/ L. Antonio Curet / Mark W. Hauser / Corinne L. Hofman / Menno
L. P. Hoogland / Kenneth G. Kelly / Sebastiaan Knippenberg /
Ingrid Newquist / Isabel C. Rivera-Collazo / Reniel
Rodríquez Ramos / Alice V. M. Samson / Peter E. Siegel /
Christian Williamson
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Defiant Bodies
In the Anglophone Caribbean, international queer human rights
activists strategically located within and outside of the region
have dominated interventions seeking to address issues affecting
people across the region; a trend that is premised on an idea that
the Caribbean is extremely homophobic and transphobic, resulting in
violence and death for people who defy dominant sexual and gender
boundaries. Human rights activists continue to utilize
international financial and political resources to influence these
interventions and the region's engagement on issues of homophobia,
transphobia, discrimination, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This focus,
however, elides the deeply complex nature of queerness across
different spaces and places, and fails to fully account for the
nuances of queer sexual and gender politics and community making
across the Caribbean. Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in
the Anglophone Caribbean problematizes the neocolonial and
homoimperial nature of queer human rights activism in in four
Anglophone Caribbean nations -- Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and
Trinidad and Tobago -- and thinks critically about the limits of
human rights as a tool for seeking queer liberation. It also offers
critical insight into the ways that queer people negotiate, resist,
and disrupt homophobia, transphobia, and discrimination by
mobilizing \"on the ground\" and creating transgressive communities
within the region.
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The Caribbean : aesthetics, world-ecology, politics
\"Bringing together the work of literary critics, social scientists, activists, and creative writers, this edited collection explores the complex relationships between environmental change, political struggle, and cultural production in the Caribbean. It ranges across the archipelago, with essays covering such topics as the literary representation of tropical storms and hurricanes, the cultural fallout from the Haitian earthquake of 2010, struggles over the rainforest in Guyana, and the role of colonial travel narratives in the reorganization of landscapes. The collection marks an important contribution to the fields of Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies, and ecocriticism. Through its deployment of the concept of 'world-ecology,' it offers up a new angle of vision on the interconnections between aesthetics, ecology, and politics. The volume seeks to grasp these categories not as discrete (if overlapping) entities, but rather as differentiated moments within a single historical process. The 'social' changes through which the Caribbean has developed have always involved changes in the relationship between humans and the rest of nature; and these changes have long been entangled with the emergence of new kinds of cultural production. The contributors to this collection provide a series of unique insights into the relationship between aesthetic practice and specific ecological processes and pressure-points in the region. More than ever Caribbean writers and artists are engaging explicitly with environmental concerns in their work; this volume responds to that trend by bringing literary and cultural criticism into sustained dialogue with debates around local, national, and regional ecological issues\"--Publisher description.
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Land Grab
Land Grabis a rich ethnographic account of the relationship between identity politics, neoliberal development policy, and rights to resource management in Garifuna communities on the north coast of Honduras, before and after the 2009 coup d'état. The Garifuna are a people of African and Amerindian descent who were exiled to Honduras from the British colony of St. Vincent in 1797 and have long suffered from racial and cultural marginalization.Employing approaches from feminist political ecology, critical race studies, and ethnic studies,Keri Vacanti Brondo illuminates three contemporary development paradoxes in Honduras: the recognition of the rights of indigenous people at the same time as Garifuna are being displaced in the name of development; the privileging of foreign research tourists in projects that promote ecotourism but result in restricting Garifuna from traditional livelihoods; and the contradictions in Garifuna land-rights claims based on native status when mestizos are reserving rights to resources as natives themselves.
Brondo's book asks a larger question: can \"freedom,\" understood as well-being, be achieved under the structures of neoliberalism? Grounding this question in the context of Garifuna relationships to territorial control and self-determination, the author explores the \"reregulation\" of Garifuna land; \"neoliberal conservation\" strategies like ecotourism, research tourism, and\"voluntourism;\" the significant issue of who controls access to property and natural resources; and the rights of women, who have been harshly impacted by \"development.\" In her conclusion, Brondo points to hopeful signs in the emergence of transnational indigenous, environmental, and feminist organizations.
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Sea of storms : a history of hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina
The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies have responded to the dangers of hurricanes, and how these destructive storms have influenced the region's history, from the rise of plantations, to slavery and its abolition, to migrations, racial conflict, and war. Taking readers from the voyages of Columbus to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Schwartz looks at the ethical, political, and economic challenges that hurricanes posed to the Caribbean's indigenous populations and the different European peoples who ventured to the New World to exploit its riches.
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Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere
Bringing together the most exciting recent archival work in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean studies, Raphael Dalleo constructs a new literary history of the region that is both comprehensive and innovative. He examines how changes in political, economic, and social structures have produced different sets of possibilities for writers to imagine their relationship to the institutions of the public sphere. In the process, he provides a new context for rereading such major writers as Mary Seacole, José Martí, Jacques Roumain, Claude McKay, Marie Chauvet, and George Lamming, while also drawing lesser-known figures into the story. Dalleo's comparative approach will be important to Caribbeanists from all of the region's linguistic traditions, and his book contributes even more broadly to debates in Latin American and postcolonial studies about postmodernity and globalization.
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