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Island Futures Mimi Sheller

Island Futures By Mimi Sheller

Island Futures by Mimi Sheller


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Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region, showing how vulnerability to ecological collapse and the quest for a just recovery in the Caribbean emerge from specific transnational political, economic, and cultural dynamics.

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Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene by Mimi Sheller

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 postearthquake 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.

Island Futures Reviews

An accomplished and brilliant scholar, Mimi Sheller writes with imagination and insight, a deep theoretical sophistication, and an eye toward the configuration of new epistemic visions and approaches grounded in Caribbean realities. I can't think of any other analysis of the contemporary Haitian and Caribbean context quite like this important book. -- Laurent Dubois, coauthor of * Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean *
In this timely and timeless book, Mimi Sheller offers a long overdue critical historical analysis of the contemporary state of infrastructure and climate change in the Caribbean at a time when its environmental vulnerabilities and dependencies could not be more apparent. Island Futures is an outstanding and groundbreaking book set to provoke and sustain dialogues across disciplines and beyond. -- Gina Athena Ulysse, author of * Because When God Is Too Busy: Haiti, Me, and the World *
I wish all researchers of the Caribbean, but especially those recently drawn to the region seeking to find quick answers to their research questions, could read Island Futures. In it they will find an excellent model to emulate how to ethically engage with a culture, place, and people without reproducing the coloniality of climate change. In addition, the book is recommended for journal and book editors who after reading how ethical research in the Caribbean can be conducted should be able to articulate similar ethical demands to their authors. -- Joaquin Villanueva * Journal of Latin American Geography *
The significance of Island Futures lies in the way the structure of each chapter, and the structure of the book as a whole, gradually reveal the uneven economies of racialized desire. . . . [Sheller] takes readers to the edge of an ethical aporia where our own decisions on how to engage with opacity and difference in White supremacist societies contribute to or foreclose alternative future-making projects. -- Kevin Grove * AAG Review of Books *

About Mimi Sheller

Mimi Sheller is Professor of Sociology at Drexel University and the author of several books, including Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom, also published by Duke University Press, and Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes.

Table of Contents

Preface: An Autobiography of My Mother ix
Acknowledgments xxvii
Introduction: Im/Mobile Disaster 1
1. Kinopolitical Power 29
2. Water Power 48
3. Aerial Power 65
4. Digital Power 83
6. Sexual Power 129
Conclusion: Surviving the Anthropocene 144
Afterword: This Is Not a Requiem 159
Notes 173
Bibliography 193
Index 217

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NGR9781478011187
9781478011187
1478011181
Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene by Mimi Sheller
New
Paperback
Duke University Press
20201106
256
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