Tag: Caribbean
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Reggae’s Agrarian Resistance
in EssaysThe plantation histories and logics carried through roots reggae music inspired Carmen Andall‑Woodroofe to pursue a Ph.D. In this essay, she centers that music to examine plantation futures—and the ways reggae resists them.
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Faculty Favorites: (Re)Imagine Environmental Futures with These Books, Films, and Exhibits
in ChecklistsA gift for navigating our present: Academic faculty recommend new and old books, films, and exhibits that critically reflect on environmental futures and futurity.
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Faculty Favorites: What to Read (and Watch) on Race & Place
in ChecklistsEdge Effects invited scholars from a range of fields to share with us environmental books and texts on the topic of “Race and Place” that they are most excited to teach in the new academic year.
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Saving the Forest to Secure the Mine in Jamaica’s Cockpit Country
in EssaysMarie Widengård looks to critical border studies to understand how both extraction and conservation are at work in a contested area of Jamaica.
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Swimming with Trash in the Caribbean
in EssaysThe Caribbean is known for its pristine beaches and tourist spots, but it has increasingly become a dumping ground for the world’s unmanaged garbage. Ysabel Muñoz Martínez charts how “wastescapes” are proliferating in the Anthropocene.
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Visualizing the Volcanic Caribbean
Weaving a reflective essay with a virtual gallery, artist Kwynn Johnson draws upon the rich history of volcano-inspired art to creatively reimagine the twenty-first-century Caribbean landscape.
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Decolonizing Labor in the Caribbean: A Conversation with Shona Jackson
in PodcastsDr. Shona Jackson discusses labor in the Caribbean and the need for radical, collective labor histories that include Creole groups and Indigenous peoples.
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A Search for Repair in the Wake of the Plantation
in ExhibitsAn audio-visual essay by Deborah A. Thomas responds to the 2010 state of emergency in West Kingston, Jamaica, known as the “Tivoli Incursion” and asks how archiving affects—not just events—might be a way to re-imagine justice, politics, and repair.
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Painting an Empire: Landscapes of Napoleon’s Dreams in Haiti
in EssaysFrench landscape painting during the Haitian Revolution lays bare colonial concern for controlling both people and the environment.