Island Futures - Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene

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.

List 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

About the author

Mimi Sheller

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mimi Sheller
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781478010128
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-1012-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Soziologie, Karibik, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Archaeology / Anthropology, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social