Environmental Humanities Colloquium: “Hurricane Riskscapes, Island Survivalism, and the Post/Colonial Dilemma in the Caribbean”
Kevon Rhiney, the 2023 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities in the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI), traces post-Irma hurricane disaster relief and rebuilding efforts on the eastern Caribbean island of St Martin to demonstrate how disaster recovery has become a highly contested and political terrain. Rhiney shows how disaster relief efforts have become embroiled in longstanding geopolitical tensions with the Netherlands. Rhiney offers insights into island ‘survivalism’ within a context of growing global climate uncertainty and ongoing post/colonial struggles. This is the second talk in the fall 2023 Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Fluid Futures Forum, Anthropology, the Department of English, the Humanities Council, the Eco-Theories Colloquium, the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI), and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
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Environmental Humanities Colloquium: “Hurricane Riskscapes, Island Survivalism, and the Post/Colonial Dilemma in the Caribbean”
Kevon Rhiney, the 2023 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities in the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI), traces post-Irma hurricane disaster relief and rebuilding efforts on the eastern Caribbean island of St Martin to demonstrate how disaster recovery has become a highly contested and political terrain. Rhiney shows how disaster relief efforts have become embroiled in longstanding geopolitical tensions with the Netherlands. Rhiney offers insights into island ‘survivalism’ within a context of growing global climate uncertainty and ongoing post/colonial struggles. This is the second talk in the fall 2023 Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Fluid Futures Forum, Anthropology, the Department of English, the Humanities Council, the Eco-Theories Colloquium, the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI), and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
