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Journal Article
Animals, beaches, stars and spirits
2025
Overview
This Exploration highlights recent and emergent themes in the study of Caribbean ecologies across the social sciences and humanities. It draws particular attention to the field of black ecologies, which extends a longstanding engagement with the socio-ecological legacies of colonialism and plantation slavery, foregrounding the racialized nature of environmental harm while also underlining the various forms of worldmaking and free-dom afforded by Caribbean ecologies. After sketching the main concerns in existing analyses of Caribbean ecologies, it explores how such approaches might be connected to new avenues for research, through four subsections that focus respectively on animals, beaches, stars and spirits. In so doing, it outlines the possibility of new conversations between Caribbean, black and more-than-human theory, demonstrating how Caribbean ecological thought and practice involve explicitly political post-humanist approaches. Esta exploración resalta temas recientes y emergentes en el estudio de las ecologías caribeñas en las ciencias sociales y las humanidades. Presta especial atención al campo de las ecologías negras, que amplía un compromiso de larga data con el legado socioecológico del colonialismo y la esclavitud en las plantaciones, poniendo de relieve la naturaleza racializada del daño medioambiental y, al mismo tiempo, subrayando las diversas formas de construcción del mundo y de la libertad que ofrecen las ecologías caribeñas. Tras esbozar las principales preocupaciones de los análisis existentes sobre las ecologías caribeñas, explora cómo estos enfoques podrían conectarse con nuevas vías de investigación a través de cuatro subsecciones centradas, respectivamente, en los animales, las playas, las estrellas y los espíritus. Al hacerlo, esboza la posibilidad de nuevas conversaciones entre la teoría caribeña, negra y más que humana, demostrando cómo el pensamiento y la práctica ecológicos caribeños implican enfoques poshumanistas explícitamente políticos.
