Sheller Island Futures

Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1273-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sheller, Mimi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.