Mimi Sheller

Island Futures

Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781478011187
• ISBN-10: 1478011181
• Artikelnr.: 58736580

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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