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Author Sheller, Mimi, author

Title Island futures : Caribbean survival in the anthropocene / Mimi Sheller
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2020

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Contents Introduction: Im/Mobile Disaster -- Kinopolitical Power -- Water Power -- Aerial Power -- Digital Power -- Bordering Power -- Sexual Power -- Conclusion: Surviving the Coloniality of Climate -- This Is Not a Requiem
Summary "In Island Futures Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time of climate catastrophe. Drawing on fieldwork on post-earthquake reconstruction in Haiti, flooding on the Haitian-Dominican border, and recent hurricanes, Sheller shows how ecological vulnerability and the quest for a "just recovery" in the Caribbean emerge from specific transnational political, economic, and cultural dynamics. Because foreigners are largely ignorant of Haiti's political, cultural, and economic contexts, especially the historical role of the United States, their efforts to help often exacerbate inequities. Caribbean survival under ever-worsening environmental and political conditions, Sheller contends, demands radical alternatives to the pervasive neocolonialism, racial capitalism, and US military domination that have perpetuated what she calls the "coloniality of climate." Sheller insists that alternative projects for Haitian reconstruction, social justice, and climate resilience-and the sustainability of the entire region-must be grounded in radical Caribbean intellectual traditions that call for deeper transformations of transnational economies, ecologies, and human relations writ large"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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In English
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Subject Human ecology -- Political aspects -- Caribbean Area
Human ecology -- Caribbean Area -- Sociological aspects
Sustainable development -- Caribbean Area
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Human ecology -- Political aspects
Sustainable development
SUBJECT Caribbean Area -- Environmental aspects
Caribbean Area -- Climatic factors
Subject Caribbean Area
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020016393
ISBN 1478012730
1478011181
9781478011187
9781478012733