1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Caribbean Studies
The Routledge Handbook of Caribbean Studies provides a critical collection of world-class scholarship about this fascinating, diverse and dynamic region.
Bringing together new and established voices on the Anglophone, Francophone, Spanish-speaking and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, the handbook explores the cultural and historical shapes and reach of the region, as well as the environmental, climatic and (geo)political challenges that it faces in the 21st century. Each of its four parts - Environment, (Geo)politics, History and Culture – explores the region’s conceptual and material entanglements and disentanglements, its transnational and transregional connections and disconnections, and its historical wakes and posts.
The Routledge Handbook of Caribbean Studies is essential reading for all who want to know more about this much-studied but often misrepresented and misunderstood region.
Introduction
Patricia Noxolo, Kevon Rhiney and Ronald Cummings
Section 1: (Dis)entanglements and Materiality in Environmental Studies
Section 1 Introduction
Kevon Rhiney (section editor)
Chapter 1: Caribbean Racial Ecologies: The Political Ecologies of Race, Nature, and Geography
Alex A. Moulton
Chapter 2: Caribbean Islands and the Coloniality of Climate Change: Navigating “the Anthropocene” through the historical legacies of the Plantation
Mimi Sheller
Chapter 3: Transformational Adaptation to Climate Change in the Caribbean
Adelle Thomas
Chapter 4: Pedagogies of Survival: Research, Disaster and Repair in Dominica
Adom Philogene Heron and Schuyler K. Esprit
Chapter 5: Indigenous Vulnerability, Disaster Governance and Environmental Justice: Case Study of the 2021 La Soufrière Eruptions in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Rose-Ann Smith
Chapter 6: Understanding Caribbean environmental worldviews as a form of environmental justice
April Baptiste
Chapter 7: Unmapping through Sound: The Caribbean as Method of Diaspora Wayfinding
Tao Leigh Goffe
Section 2: (Geo)politics
Section 2 Introduction
Patricia Noxolo (section editor)
Chapter 8: Puerto Rico and CARICOM: A Case Study in the History of Puerto Rico’s relations with the Caribbean
Raymond Laureano-Ortiz
Chapter 9: Colonial Continuities in Citizenship and the Role of Civil Society Organisations
Yonique Campbell
Chapter 10: Middle-class Caribbean identities: Gendering the Transnational and the Diasporic
Beverley Mullings
Chapter 11: Caribbean Migration and the Family: Women’s Transnational Agency
Natasha Kay Mortley
Chapter 12: Colourism in the Caribbean
Shirley Anne Tate
Chapter 13: Carceral masculinities in the Caribbean, with a focus on Belize, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago
Dylan Kerrigan and Adam Baird
Chapter 14: Justice making and the performance of memory in the Francophone Caribbean
Fabienne Viala Manicom
Section 3: Histories and (Re)connections
Section 3 Introduction
Patricia Noxolo (section editor)
Chapter 15: Multi-ethnic nation building and branding in Suriname
Rosemarijn Hoefte
Chapter 16: ‘Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land: Caribbean Spiritual Survival’
Janelle Rodriques
Chapter 17: ‘The Haytian situation’: Haiti in the Imagination of the nineteenth century Caribbean
Matthew J. Smith
Chapter 18: ‘Their Locomotive Habits’: Mobility and Post-Emancipation (Dis)Order in Port Cities
Anyaa Anim-Addo
Chapter 19: Caribbean Studies, Queer Studies: Historical Intimates
Matthew Chin
Chapter 20: Sovereignty, Possession, Surrender: Caribbean Futures
Deborah A. Thomas
Chapter 21: Decolonial Caribbean Thought
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Section 4: Literature and Culture
Section 4 Introduction
Ronald Cummings (section editor)
Chapter 22: The Making of The Bright Land: Federation and Filmmaking
Rachel Mosley-Wood
Chapter 23: Bloodcloth: Kinship and Fabric in Caribbean Literary Aesthetics
Faith Smith
Chapter 24: Afro-Caribbean and Latinx Archipelagic Connections: Boricuas in Hawai‘i
Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez and Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Chapter 25: Caribbean Digital Diasporas
Tzarina T. Prater
Chapter 26: ‘I’m still in love with you boy’: Black Women, Sexual Politics and Lovers Rock Music’s Erotic Political Entanglements
Lisa Palmer
Chapter 27: The Sovereign Affects of Caribbean Women’s Poetics
Cornel Bogle
Chapter 28: ‘Sound Sistrens’: Listening to Female DJs in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction
Njelle W. Hamilton
Chapter 29: ‘The Repeating Island’: Visual Art, Black Ooze and the Postdiasporic Caribbean
Marsha Pearce
Biography
Patricia Noxolo’s research brings together the study of international culture and in/security, and uses postcolonial, discursive and literary approaches to explore the spatialities of a range of Caribbean and British cultural practices. She was awarded the 2021 Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Murchison Award and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Pat has led two international teams exploring Caribbean in/securities and creativity, and is co-lead of University of Birmingham’s Stuart Hall Archive Project. She is co-founder of the Fi Wi Road internships for Black Geography undergraduates. Pat is a committee member of the RACE group of the RGS, former chair of the Society for Caribbean Studies, and former co-editor of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
Kevon Rhiney is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. His research investigates the development and justice implications of global environmental change in the Caribbean, specifically the ways socio-ecological shocks (including impacts from extreme weather events, market volatilities and crop epidemics) are unevenly experienced and negotiated by historically marginalized communities.
Ronald Cummings is Associate Professor of Black Studies and African Diaspora Literatures in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Canada. He has edited special issues and published articles and in various journals including Small Axe, Transforming Anthropology, Cultural Dynamics, New West Indian Guide and the Journal of West Indian Literature. He has edited and published several critical books in his field. Professor Cummings is also a Research Associate with the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class (RGC) at the University of Johannesburg.
