Books by Elizabeth DeLoughrey
Allegories of the Anthropocene, 2019
In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how Indigenous and postcolonial ... more In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how Indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature. In these works, authors and artists use allegory as a means to understand the multiscalar complexities of the Anthropocene and to critique the violence of capitalism, militarism, and the postcolonial state. DeLoughrey examines the work of a wide range of artists and writers—including poets Kamau Brathwaite and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Dominican installation artist Tony Capellán, and authors Keri Hulme and Erna Brodber—whose work addresses Caribbean plantations, irradiated Pacific atolls, global flows of waste, and allegorical representations of the ocean and the island. In examining how island writers and artists address the experience of finding themselves at the forefront of the existential threat posed by climate change, DeLoughrey demonstrates how the Anthropocene and empire are mutually constitutive and establishes the vital importance of allegorical art and literature in understanding our global environmental crisis.
Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches, 2015
This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the Environmental ... more This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the Environmental Humanities, focusing in particular on how the history of globalization and imperialism represents a special challenge to the representation of environmental issues. Essays in this path-breaking collection examine the role that narrative, visual, and aesthetic forms can play in drawing attention to and shaping our ideas about long-term and catastrophic environmental challenges such as climate change, militarism, deforestation, the pollution and management of the global commons, petrocapitalism, and the commodification of nature.
The volume presents a postcolonial approach to the environmental humanities, especially in conjunction with current thinking in areas such as political ecology and environmental justice. Spanning regions such as Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Australasia and the Pacific, as well as North America, the volume includes essays by founding figures in the field as well as new scholars, providing vital new interdisciplinary perspectives on: the politics of the earth; disaster, vulnerability, and resilience; political ecologies and environmental justice; world ecologies; and the Anthropocene. In engaging critical ecologies, the volume poses a postcolonial environmental humanities for the twenty-first century. At the heart of this is a conviction that a thoroughly global, postcolonial, and comparative approach is essential to defining the emergent field of the environmental humanities, and that this field has much to offer in understanding critical issues surrounding the creation of alternative ecological futures.
Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches, 2015
This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the Environmental ... more This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the Environmental Humanities, focusing in particular on how the history of globalization and imperialism represents a special challenge to approaches to environmental issues. Essays in this path-breaking collection examine the role narrative can play in drawing attention to and shaping our ideas about long-term environmental problems such as climate change, militarism, deforestation, toxicity, and agricultural resource management. The volume explores implications for defining a postcolonial approach to the environmental humanities, especially in conjunction with current thinking in areas such as political ecology and environmental justice. Spanning regions such as Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific Islands, essays by founding figures in the field as well as new scholars expand the geographical and historical contours of ecocriticism by examining how writers have imagined the environment, providing vital new perspectives on how ecological change can be traced to globalization and a history of colonialism. It moves beyond literary studies to a more interdisciplinary discussion of the importance of narrative to our understanding of environmental concerns. At the heart of this is a conviction that a thoroughly global, postcolonial, and comparative approach is essential to defining the emergent field of the environmental humanities, and that this field has much to offer in understanding critical issues surrounding the creation of alternative ecological futures.
CONTENTS
Foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty
Introduction: A Postcolonial Environmental Humanities Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jill Didur, and Anthony Carrigan
Part I: The Politics of Earth: Forests, Gardens, Plantations
1. Narrativizing Nature: India, Empire,and Environment David Arnold
2. "The Perverse Little People of the Hills:" Unearthing Ecology and Transculturation in Reginald Farrer’s Alpine Plant-Hunting Jill Didur
3. Bagasse: Caribbean Art and the Debris of the Sugar Plantation Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
4. Writing a Native Garden?: Environmental Language and Post-Mabo Literature in Australia Susan K. Martin
Part II: Disaster, Vulnerability, and Resilience
5. Towards a Postcolonial Disaster Studies Anthony Carrigan
6. Nuclear Disaster: The Marshall Islands Experience and Lessons for a Post-Fukushima World Barbara Rose Johnston
7. Island Vulnerability and Resilience: Combining Knowledges for Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation
Ilan Kelman, J.C. Gaillard, Jessica Mercer, James Lewis, and Anthony Carrigan
Part III: Political Ecologies and Environmental Justice
8. The Edgework of the Clerk: Resilience in Arundhati Roy’s Walking With the Comrades Susie O’Brien
9. Filming the Emergence of Popular Environmentalism in Latin America: Postcolonialism and Buen Vivir Jorge Marcone
10. Witnessing the Nature of Violence: Resource Extraction and Political Ecologies in the Contemporary African Novel Byron Caminero-Santangelo
Part IV: Mapping World Ecologies
11. Narrating a Global Future: Our Common Future and the Public Hearings of the World Commission on Environment and Development Cheryl Lousley
12. Oil on Sugar: Commodity Frontiers and Peripheral Aesthetics Michael Niblett
13. Ghost Mountains and Stone Maidens: Ecological Imperialism, Compound Catastrophe, and the Post-Soviet Ecogothic Sharae Deckard
Part V: Terraforming, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene
14. Terraforming Planet Earth Joseph Masco
15. Climate Change, Cosmology, and Poetry: The Case of Derek Walcott’s Omeros George B. Handley
16. Ordinary Futures: Interspecies Worldings in the Anthropocene Elizabeth DeLoughrey
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Oxford University Press, 2011
The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolon... more The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia. Turning to contemporary works by both well- and little-known postcolonial writers, the diverse contributions highlight the literary imagination as crucial to representing what Eduoard Glissant calls the "aesthetics of the earth." The essays are organized around a group of thematic concerns that engage culture and cultivation, arboriculture and deforestation, the lives of animals, and the relationship between the military and the tourist industry. With chapters that address works by J. M. Coetzee, Kiran Desai, Derek Walcott, Alejo Carpentier, Zakes Mda, and many others, Postcolonial Ecologies makes a remarkable contribution to rethinking the role of the humanities in addressing global environmental issues.
Perhaps there is no other region in the world that has been more radically altered in terms of hu... more Perhaps there is no other region in the world that has been more radically altered in terms of human and botanic migration, transplantation, and settlement than the Caribbean. Theorists such as Edouard Glissant argue that the dialectic between Caribbean "nature" and "culture," engendered by this unique and troubled history, has not heretofore been brought into productive relation. Caribbean Literature and the Environment redresses this omission by gathering together eighteen essays that consider the relationship between human and natural history. The result is the first volume to examine the literatures of the Caribbean from an ecocritical perspective in all language areas of the region.
In its exploration of the relationship between nature and culture, this collection focuses on four overlapping themes: how Caribbean texts inscribe the environmental impact of colonial and plantation economies; how colonial myths of edenic and natural origins are revisioned; what the connections are between histories of biotic and cultural creolization; and how a Caribbean aesthetics might usefully articulate a means to preserve sustainability in the context of tourism and globalization. By creating a dialogue between the growing field of ecological literary studies, which has primarily been concerned with white settler narratives, and Caribbean cultural production, especially the region’s negotiation of complex racial and ethnic legacies, these essays explore the ways in which the history of transplantation and settlement has provided unique challenges and opportunities for establishing a sense of place and an environmental ethic in the Caribbean.
The volume includes an extensive introduction by the editors and essays by Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Derek Walcott, Wilson Harris, Cyril Dabydeen, Trenton Hickman, Shona Jackson, LeGrace Benson, Jana Evans Braziel, George B. Handley, Renee K. Grossman, Isabel Hoving, Natasha Tinsley, Helen Tiffen, Hena Maes-Jelinek, Heidi Bojsen, Ineke Phaf-Reinberger, Eric Prieto, and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, as well as interviews with Walcott and Raphaël Confiant. It will appeal to all those interested in Caribbean, literary, and ecocritical studies.
Papers by Elizabeth DeLoughrey
The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History, 2023
This chapter engages a postcolonial feminist approach to visual representations of embodied fluid... more This chapter engages a postcolonial feminist approach to visual representations of embodied fluidity and flow in relation to the Caribbean and merges these discourses with the ontological turn to “wet matter” at a critical moment of sea-level rise in the Anthropocene. Astrida Neimanis has argued that “Water connects the human scale to other scales of
life, both unfathomable and imperceptible. We are all bodies of water, in the constitutional, the genealogical, and the geographical sense.”
This theorization of embodied water may be engaged in relation to the visual production of Black women artists, who until recently have
been left out of the conversations around ecofeminism and the environmental humanities. My chapter brings together the work of Caribbean artists María Magdalena Campos-Pons (Cuba/US) and Deborah Jack (St Maarten/US) in relation to their visual allegories of oceanic embodiment, raising questions about how water is represented at the multiscalar levels of the ontological and cosmological.
Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, May 1, 2010
University of Hawaii Press eBooks, Dec 18, 2017
Author(s): DeLoughrey, EM | Abstract: Routes and Roots is the first comparative study of Caribbea... more Author(s): DeLoughrey, EM | Abstract: Routes and Roots is the first comparative study of Caribbean and Pacific Island literatures and the first work to bring indigenous and diaspora literary studies together in a sustained dialogue. Taking the "tidalectic" between land and sea as a dynamic starting point, Elizabeth DeLoughrey foregrounds geography and history in her exploration of how island writers inscribe the complex relation between routes and roots. The first section looks at the sea as history in literatures of the Atlantic middle passage and Pacific Island voyaging, theorizing the transoceanic imaginary. The second section turns to the land to examine indigenous epistemologies in nation-building literatures. Both sections are particularly attentive to the ways in which the metaphors of routes and roots are gendered, exploring how masculine travelers are naturalized through their voyages across feminized lands and seas. This methodology of charting transoceanic migration and landfall helps elucidate how theories and people travel, positioning island cultures in the world historical process. In fact, DeLoughrey demonstrates how these tropical island cultures helped constitute the very metropoles that deemed them peripheral to modernity. Fresh in its ideas, original in its approach, Routes and Roots engages broadly with history, anthropology, and feminist, postcolonial, Caribbean, and Pacific literary and cultural studies. It productively traverses diaspora and indigenous studies in a way that will facilitate broader discussion between these often segregated disciplines. © 2007 by University of Hawai'i Press. All Rights Reserved.
Routledge eBooks, Feb 17, 2015
Duke University Press eBooks, 2019
The thinking about and writing of this book has also been made possi ble by the generous support ... more The thinking about and writing of this book has also been made possi ble by the generous support of fellowships and research grants. Special thanks to Christof Mauch at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (rcc) for his support of our workshop "Imperialism, Narrative and the Environment" and to all of the workshop participants. It remains to me one of the most impor tant gatherings for my thinking through the relationship between postcolonial studies and the environmental humanities. I was fortunate to have received an acls Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship at the Huntington Library, which provided an invaluable break from my teaching and ser vice commitments at ucla. The University Acknowl edgments ix of California Humanities Research Initiative Grant funded our "Global Ecologies: Nature/Narrative/Neoliberalism" conference, and I extend my thanks to all of the presenters and participants at that event, which continued and expanded an invaluable discussion begun at the rcc. The University of California Pacific-Rim Grant, ucla International Institute Faculty Research Award, and Burkle Center Faculty Research Grant supported my colleagues Victor Bascara and Keith Camacho and me in organ izing workshops on militarization at home and at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji, which were integral to my research on radiation ecologies and to my learning about comparative militarism in this book and beyond. In addition to the names already mentioned I have been buoyed by the friendship, support, and intellectual engagements of
Routledge eBooks, Aug 3, 2022
This chapter examines the recent oceanic turn in the humanities, particularly
what French theori... more This chapter examines the recent oceanic turn in the humanities, particularly
what French theorist Gaston Bachelard once termed the “depth imagination,”
and argues that it has been reconstituted by a new era of extraction, in both
material and imaginary terms. Marine biologist
Sylvia Earle reminds us of the true value of extraction as the possibility of species being. Extraction is also about futurity, narrative, technology, and speculation. Here I stage an interdisciplinary conversation between recent scholarship about the speculative practices of deep-sea mining (“DSM”) and speculative fiction (“sf”) that imagine techno-utopian futures of human life under the sea. In doing so, I raise questions about the ways in which particular kinds of literary genres and reading practices produce an extractive imaginary, and examine the uncomfortable overlap between the concept of innovation as a driver of the blue economy as well as the blue humanities.
I make two claims---first, that the turn to what is being called the “blue humanities,” while certainly driven by our environmental crisis and the ecological/multispecies turn in scholarship, is also the product of the neoliberalization of academia and the rebranding of humanities work in an era of intellectual and economic downsizing. Second, that while there is currently a scramble for mineral rights and access to the seabed by transnational mining conglomerates purportedly due to the global shift toward “green” technologies, the oceanic turn in capitalism and scholarship seems to fulfill a desire for a material and intellectual (blue) “spatial fix.”
Atlantic Studies, 2022
While a body of earlier work on the Black Atlantic generally
imagined the ocean as a backdrop fo... more While a body of earlier work on the Black Atlantic generally
imagined the ocean as a backdrop for primarily heteronormative,
masculine human agents to move from one continent to another,
this westward telos has been complicated by a deeper
engagement with Black queer intimacies and non-human kinship
relations in the depths of the ocean. A recent novella written by
Rivers Solomon with their collaborative interlocuters from the
band “clipping.” – Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan
Snipes – portrays the fluidity of an aqueous merfolk named the
wajinru who are born of the dead and nursed and nourished as
kin by non-human figures of what Edouard Glissant terms the
“womb abyss.” Here I explore The Deep as speculative fiction that
speaks directly to questions of oceanic origins and ontologies,
transforming the necropolitics of transatlantic slave trading into
the possibilities of the “womb abyss” for the lives of its
“aquatically mutated,” non-binary descendants.
Ethnic Studies Review
The first half of this article draws from the keynote lecture delivered by Joyce Pualani Warren i... more The first half of this article draws from the keynote lecture delivered by Joyce Pualani Warren in which she theorizes an Indigenous Pacific conception of origins that encompasses notions of Blackness and kinship. Warren argues that using knowledge of Pō can offer a model of kinship and enhanced support for Indigeneity and Indigenous futures. The second half of this article features Warren’s response to questions and prompts posed by Keith L. Camacho, Elizabeth DeLoughrey, and Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi.
s of 500 words or original papers of 25-35 pages in length are being solicited for a proposed fes... more s of 500 words or original papers of 25-35 pages in length are being solicited for a proposed festschrift honoring Derek Walcott on the occasion of his 75th birthday, January 2005. Submissions will be accepted through May 2003. The editors seek essays addressing specific poems, plays, collections (especially those that have received little attention). Editors also encourage broader theses on techniques, themes, motifs, and social, literary, and linguistic influences concomitant with Walcott's New World milieu. Manuscripts in MLA style may be mailed to Robert Hamner,
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The volume presents a postcolonial approach to the environmental humanities, especially in conjunction with current thinking in areas such as political ecology and environmental justice. Spanning regions such as Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Australasia and the Pacific, as well as North America, the volume includes essays by founding figures in the field as well as new scholars, providing vital new interdisciplinary perspectives on: the politics of the earth; disaster, vulnerability, and resilience; political ecologies and environmental justice; world ecologies; and the Anthropocene. In engaging critical ecologies, the volume poses a postcolonial environmental humanities for the twenty-first century. At the heart of this is a conviction that a thoroughly global, postcolonial, and comparative approach is essential to defining the emergent field of the environmental humanities, and that this field has much to offer in understanding critical issues surrounding the creation of alternative ecological futures.
CONTENTS
Foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty
Introduction: A Postcolonial Environmental Humanities Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jill Didur, and Anthony Carrigan
Part I: The Politics of Earth: Forests, Gardens, Plantations
1. Narrativizing Nature: India, Empire,and Environment David Arnold
2. "The Perverse Little People of the Hills:" Unearthing Ecology and Transculturation in Reginald Farrer’s Alpine Plant-Hunting Jill Didur
3. Bagasse: Caribbean Art and the Debris of the Sugar Plantation Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
4. Writing a Native Garden?: Environmental Language and Post-Mabo Literature in Australia Susan K. Martin
Part II: Disaster, Vulnerability, and Resilience
5. Towards a Postcolonial Disaster Studies Anthony Carrigan
6. Nuclear Disaster: The Marshall Islands Experience and Lessons for a Post-Fukushima World Barbara Rose Johnston
7. Island Vulnerability and Resilience: Combining Knowledges for Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation
Ilan Kelman, J.C. Gaillard, Jessica Mercer, James Lewis, and Anthony Carrigan
Part III: Political Ecologies and Environmental Justice
8. The Edgework of the Clerk: Resilience in Arundhati Roy’s Walking With the Comrades Susie O’Brien
9. Filming the Emergence of Popular Environmentalism in Latin America: Postcolonialism and Buen Vivir Jorge Marcone
10. Witnessing the Nature of Violence: Resource Extraction and Political Ecologies in the Contemporary African Novel Byron Caminero-Santangelo
Part IV: Mapping World Ecologies
11. Narrating a Global Future: Our Common Future and the Public Hearings of the World Commission on Environment and Development Cheryl Lousley
12. Oil on Sugar: Commodity Frontiers and Peripheral Aesthetics Michael Niblett
13. Ghost Mountains and Stone Maidens: Ecological Imperialism, Compound Catastrophe, and the Post-Soviet Ecogothic Sharae Deckard
Part V: Terraforming, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene
14. Terraforming Planet Earth Joseph Masco
15. Climate Change, Cosmology, and Poetry: The Case of Derek Walcott’s Omeros George B. Handley
16. Ordinary Futures: Interspecies Worldings in the Anthropocene Elizabeth DeLoughrey
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In its exploration of the relationship between nature and culture, this collection focuses on four overlapping themes: how Caribbean texts inscribe the environmental impact of colonial and plantation economies; how colonial myths of edenic and natural origins are revisioned; what the connections are between histories of biotic and cultural creolization; and how a Caribbean aesthetics might usefully articulate a means to preserve sustainability in the context of tourism and globalization. By creating a dialogue between the growing field of ecological literary studies, which has primarily been concerned with white settler narratives, and Caribbean cultural production, especially the region’s negotiation of complex racial and ethnic legacies, these essays explore the ways in which the history of transplantation and settlement has provided unique challenges and opportunities for establishing a sense of place and an environmental ethic in the Caribbean.
The volume includes an extensive introduction by the editors and essays by Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Derek Walcott, Wilson Harris, Cyril Dabydeen, Trenton Hickman, Shona Jackson, LeGrace Benson, Jana Evans Braziel, George B. Handley, Renee K. Grossman, Isabel Hoving, Natasha Tinsley, Helen Tiffen, Hena Maes-Jelinek, Heidi Bojsen, Ineke Phaf-Reinberger, Eric Prieto, and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, as well as interviews with Walcott and Raphaël Confiant. It will appeal to all those interested in Caribbean, literary, and ecocritical studies.
Papers by Elizabeth DeLoughrey
life, both unfathomable and imperceptible. We are all bodies of water, in the constitutional, the genealogical, and the geographical sense.”
This theorization of embodied water may be engaged in relation to the visual production of Black women artists, who until recently have
been left out of the conversations around ecofeminism and the environmental humanities. My chapter brings together the work of Caribbean artists María Magdalena Campos-Pons (Cuba/US) and Deborah Jack (St Maarten/US) in relation to their visual allegories of oceanic embodiment, raising questions about how water is represented at the multiscalar levels of the ontological and cosmological.
what French theorist Gaston Bachelard once termed the “depth imagination,”
and argues that it has been reconstituted by a new era of extraction, in both
material and imaginary terms. Marine biologist
Sylvia Earle reminds us of the true value of extraction as the possibility of species being. Extraction is also about futurity, narrative, technology, and speculation. Here I stage an interdisciplinary conversation between recent scholarship about the speculative practices of deep-sea mining (“DSM”) and speculative fiction (“sf”) that imagine techno-utopian futures of human life under the sea. In doing so, I raise questions about the ways in which particular kinds of literary genres and reading practices produce an extractive imaginary, and examine the uncomfortable overlap between the concept of innovation as a driver of the blue economy as well as the blue humanities.
I make two claims---first, that the turn to what is being called the “blue humanities,” while certainly driven by our environmental crisis and the ecological/multispecies turn in scholarship, is also the product of the neoliberalization of academia and the rebranding of humanities work in an era of intellectual and economic downsizing. Second, that while there is currently a scramble for mineral rights and access to the seabed by transnational mining conglomerates purportedly due to the global shift toward “green” technologies, the oceanic turn in capitalism and scholarship seems to fulfill a desire for a material and intellectual (blue) “spatial fix.”
imagined the ocean as a backdrop for primarily heteronormative,
masculine human agents to move from one continent to another,
this westward telos has been complicated by a deeper
engagement with Black queer intimacies and non-human kinship
relations in the depths of the ocean. A recent novella written by
Rivers Solomon with their collaborative interlocuters from the
band “clipping.” – Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan
Snipes – portrays the fluidity of an aqueous merfolk named the
wajinru who are born of the dead and nursed and nourished as
kin by non-human figures of what Edouard Glissant terms the
“womb abyss.” Here I explore The Deep as speculative fiction that
speaks directly to questions of oceanic origins and ontologies,
transforming the necropolitics of transatlantic slave trading into
the possibilities of the “womb abyss” for the lives of its
“aquatically mutated,” non-binary descendants.
The volume presents a postcolonial approach to the environmental humanities, especially in conjunction with current thinking in areas such as political ecology and environmental justice. Spanning regions such as Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Australasia and the Pacific, as well as North America, the volume includes essays by founding figures in the field as well as new scholars, providing vital new interdisciplinary perspectives on: the politics of the earth; disaster, vulnerability, and resilience; political ecologies and environmental justice; world ecologies; and the Anthropocene. In engaging critical ecologies, the volume poses a postcolonial environmental humanities for the twenty-first century. At the heart of this is a conviction that a thoroughly global, postcolonial, and comparative approach is essential to defining the emergent field of the environmental humanities, and that this field has much to offer in understanding critical issues surrounding the creation of alternative ecological futures.
CONTENTS
Foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty
Introduction: A Postcolonial Environmental Humanities Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jill Didur, and Anthony Carrigan
Part I: The Politics of Earth: Forests, Gardens, Plantations
1. Narrativizing Nature: India, Empire,and Environment David Arnold
2. "The Perverse Little People of the Hills:" Unearthing Ecology and Transculturation in Reginald Farrer’s Alpine Plant-Hunting Jill Didur
3. Bagasse: Caribbean Art and the Debris of the Sugar Plantation Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
4. Writing a Native Garden?: Environmental Language and Post-Mabo Literature in Australia Susan K. Martin
Part II: Disaster, Vulnerability, and Resilience
5. Towards a Postcolonial Disaster Studies Anthony Carrigan
6. Nuclear Disaster: The Marshall Islands Experience and Lessons for a Post-Fukushima World Barbara Rose Johnston
7. Island Vulnerability and Resilience: Combining Knowledges for Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation
Ilan Kelman, J.C. Gaillard, Jessica Mercer, James Lewis, and Anthony Carrigan
Part III: Political Ecologies and Environmental Justice
8. The Edgework of the Clerk: Resilience in Arundhati Roy’s Walking With the Comrades Susie O’Brien
9. Filming the Emergence of Popular Environmentalism in Latin America: Postcolonialism and Buen Vivir Jorge Marcone
10. Witnessing the Nature of Violence: Resource Extraction and Political Ecologies in the Contemporary African Novel Byron Caminero-Santangelo
Part IV: Mapping World Ecologies
11. Narrating a Global Future: Our Common Future and the Public Hearings of the World Commission on Environment and Development Cheryl Lousley
12. Oil on Sugar: Commodity Frontiers and Peripheral Aesthetics Michael Niblett
13. Ghost Mountains and Stone Maidens: Ecological Imperialism, Compound Catastrophe, and the Post-Soviet Ecogothic Sharae Deckard
Part V: Terraforming, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene
14. Terraforming Planet Earth Joseph Masco
15. Climate Change, Cosmology, and Poetry: The Case of Derek Walcott’s Omeros George B. Handley
16. Ordinary Futures: Interspecies Worldings in the Anthropocene Elizabeth DeLoughrey
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In its exploration of the relationship between nature and culture, this collection focuses on four overlapping themes: how Caribbean texts inscribe the environmental impact of colonial and plantation economies; how colonial myths of edenic and natural origins are revisioned; what the connections are between histories of biotic and cultural creolization; and how a Caribbean aesthetics might usefully articulate a means to preserve sustainability in the context of tourism and globalization. By creating a dialogue between the growing field of ecological literary studies, which has primarily been concerned with white settler narratives, and Caribbean cultural production, especially the region’s negotiation of complex racial and ethnic legacies, these essays explore the ways in which the history of transplantation and settlement has provided unique challenges and opportunities for establishing a sense of place and an environmental ethic in the Caribbean.
The volume includes an extensive introduction by the editors and essays by Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Derek Walcott, Wilson Harris, Cyril Dabydeen, Trenton Hickman, Shona Jackson, LeGrace Benson, Jana Evans Braziel, George B. Handley, Renee K. Grossman, Isabel Hoving, Natasha Tinsley, Helen Tiffen, Hena Maes-Jelinek, Heidi Bojsen, Ineke Phaf-Reinberger, Eric Prieto, and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, as well as interviews with Walcott and Raphaël Confiant. It will appeal to all those interested in Caribbean, literary, and ecocritical studies.
life, both unfathomable and imperceptible. We are all bodies of water, in the constitutional, the genealogical, and the geographical sense.”
This theorization of embodied water may be engaged in relation to the visual production of Black women artists, who until recently have
been left out of the conversations around ecofeminism and the environmental humanities. My chapter brings together the work of Caribbean artists María Magdalena Campos-Pons (Cuba/US) and Deborah Jack (St Maarten/US) in relation to their visual allegories of oceanic embodiment, raising questions about how water is represented at the multiscalar levels of the ontological and cosmological.
what French theorist Gaston Bachelard once termed the “depth imagination,”
and argues that it has been reconstituted by a new era of extraction, in both
material and imaginary terms. Marine biologist
Sylvia Earle reminds us of the true value of extraction as the possibility of species being. Extraction is also about futurity, narrative, technology, and speculation. Here I stage an interdisciplinary conversation between recent scholarship about the speculative practices of deep-sea mining (“DSM”) and speculative fiction (“sf”) that imagine techno-utopian futures of human life under the sea. In doing so, I raise questions about the ways in which particular kinds of literary genres and reading practices produce an extractive imaginary, and examine the uncomfortable overlap between the concept of innovation as a driver of the blue economy as well as the blue humanities.
I make two claims---first, that the turn to what is being called the “blue humanities,” while certainly driven by our environmental crisis and the ecological/multispecies turn in scholarship, is also the product of the neoliberalization of academia and the rebranding of humanities work in an era of intellectual and economic downsizing. Second, that while there is currently a scramble for mineral rights and access to the seabed by transnational mining conglomerates purportedly due to the global shift toward “green” technologies, the oceanic turn in capitalism and scholarship seems to fulfill a desire for a material and intellectual (blue) “spatial fix.”
imagined the ocean as a backdrop for primarily heteronormative,
masculine human agents to move from one continent to another,
this westward telos has been complicated by a deeper
engagement with Black queer intimacies and non-human kinship
relations in the depths of the ocean. A recent novella written by
Rivers Solomon with their collaborative interlocuters from the
band “clipping.” – Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan
Snipes – portrays the fluidity of an aqueous merfolk named the
wajinru who are born of the dead and nursed and nourished as
kin by non-human figures of what Edouard Glissant terms the
“womb abyss.” Here I explore The Deep as speculative fiction that
speaks directly to questions of oceanic origins and ontologies,
transforming the necropolitics of transatlantic slave trading into
the possibilities of the “womb abyss” for the lives of its
“aquatically mutated,” non-binary descendants.
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Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
Issue 37, March 2015
Gender and Sexual Politics of Pacific Island Militarisation
Guest editors: Victor Bascara, Keith L. Camacho and Elizabeth DeLoughrey
Pdfs of each contribution are available below:
DeLoughrey, Elizabeth - Introduction: Of Oceans and Islands
Bragard, Veronique - 'Righting' the Expulsion of Diego Garcia's 'Unpeople': The Island Space as Heterotopia in Literary Texts about the Chagos Islands
Carrigan, Anthony - (Eco)Catastrophe, Reconstruction, and Representation: Montserrat and the Limits of Sustainability
DeLoughrey, Elizabeth - On Kala Pani and Transoceanic Fluids
Fletcher, Lisa - '…some distance to go': A Critical Review of Island Studies
Heim, Otto - Breath as a Metaphor of Sovereignty and Connectedness in Pacific Island Poetry
Percopo, Luisa - On the Trail of the Post-Colonial: Transcultural Spaces, Cosmopolitanism, and the Islands of the Mediterranean
Savory, Elaine - Utopia, Dystopia and Caribbean Heterotopia: Writing/Reading the Small Island
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