The contours of environmental justice in the Caribbean

Baptiste, April Karen; Robinson, Stacy‐ann

doi:10.1111/geoj.12545

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“…Assertions of Black-Indigenous heritage, grassroots organizing around Black-Indigenous unity, and communality also serve to reframe resources as commons (Anderson 2007;Mollett 2014;Gould and Lewis 2018;Nisbett 2021;Veronesi et al 2022). The diverse forms of refusing "ownershiplessness" or institutionalized alienation (Goffe 2023a(Goffe , 2023b are materially and symbolically recontouring the spatiality of Caribbean environmental geographies and clarifying of the valence of sovereignty and recognition at different scales in postcolonial political ecologies (Baptiste and Robinson 2023).…”

Section: Extractivism and The Cartographies Of Strugglementioning

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Modernity's Antillean ecologies: Dispossession, disasters, justice, and repair across the Caribbean archipelago

Moulton

2024

Progress in Environmental Geography

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The Caribbean region has been (re)shaped by colonial transformations of Amerindian ecologies, enslavement of Africans, and Indenture of Asians on plantations designed for European profit. Yet longstanding practices of resistance to human–environmental domination and ecocidal violence have enabled Caribbean people to (re)create and sustain affirmative socio-ecologies. This report reflects on four axes characterizing the contestations over Caribbean environmental geographies: resistance to extractivism and dispossession, denaturalization of disaster, theorizing global ecological justice, and pursuit of repair. The article suggests how Caribbean environmental philosophy and ecocriticism offer analytics for mapping relational geographies beyond Western epistemes of progress and spatial imaginaries that peripheralize the region.

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Section: Extractivism and The Cartographies Of Strugglementioning

confidence: 99%

Modernity's Antillean ecologies: Dispossession, disasters, justice, and repair across the Caribbean archipelago

Moulton

2024

Progress in Environmental Geography

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Feminist perspectives on environmental justice and health in Jamaica

Albarus,

Lue,

Kerrison

et al. 2024

Front. Sociol.

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Jamaica is an island nation with a history that is informed by Taino settlement, European colonisation, chattel slavery, disinvestment, and continued extractivism. This perspective paper leverages a historical analysis to explore environmental injustices affecting the health and quality of life of Jamaicans living in Jamaica. This article hopes to contribute to a growing but limited body of scholarly research that contends with environmental and climate justice in the context of the Caribbean. In discussing a lack of critical environmental infrastructure, such as reliable solid waste management, and the impacts of extractive industries, such as bauxite mining, the paper intends to highlight the environmental, public health, and social harms that are produced. Employing an intersectional approach grounded in Black feminist epistemology put forward by Patricia Hill Collins, the authors use their lived experiences as a source of knowledge. The paper analyses how these environmental injustices harm Jamaican communities at large but underscores the compounded challenges faced by Jamaican women who experience marginalisation on the basis of gender, urban/rural residency, and class. The paper concludes by urging researchers, policymakers, regulatory bodies, and other stakeholders to conduct further research and create sustainable and equitable environmental standards that have considerations for environmental injustice in Jamaica.

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The contours of environmental justice in the Caribbean

Cited by 2 publications

References 48 publications

Modernity's Antillean ecologies: Dispossession, disasters, justice, and repair across the Caribbean archipelago

Modernity's Antillean ecologies: Dispossession, disasters, justice, and repair across the Caribbean archipelago

Feminist perspectives on environmental justice and health in Jamaica

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