Routledge Handbook of Caribbean Studies

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 a co-lead of University of Birmingham’s Stuart Hall Archive Project. She is a 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 an Associate Professor of Black Studies and African Diaspora Literatures in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Canada. He is the editor of several volumes including Caribbean Literatures in Transition 1970-2020 (co-edited with Alison Donnell). His co-edited volume Harriet’s Legacies: Race, Historical Memory and Futures in Canada received the award for best edited collection from the Canadian Studies Network (CSN) in 2023. Professor Cummings is also a Research Associate with the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class (RGC) at the University of Johannesburg.

• Introduction Section I: (Dis)entanglements and Materiality in Environmental Studies Section I Introduction 1: Caribbean Racial Ecologies: The Political Ecologies of Race, Nature, and Geography 2: Caribbean Islands and the Coloniality of Climate Change: Navigating “the Anthropocene” through the Historical Legacies of the Plantation 3: Transformational Adaptation to Climate Change in the Caribbean 4: Pedagogies of Survival: Research, Disaster and Repair in Dominica 5: Indigenous Vulnerability, Disaster Governance and Environmental Justice: Case Study of the 2021 La Soufrière Eruptions in St. Vincent and the Grenadines 6: Understanding Caribbean Environmental Worldviews as a form of Environmental Justice 7: Unmapping through Sound: The Caribbean as Method of Diaspora Wayfinding Section II: (Geo)politics Section II Introduction 8: Puerto Rico and CARICOM: A Case Study in the History of Puerto Rico’s relations with the Caribbean 9: Colonial Continuities in Citizenship and the Role of Civil Society Organisations 10: Middle-Class Caribbean Identities: Gendering the Transnational and the Diasporic 11: Caribbean Migration and the Family: Women’s Transnational Agency 12: Colourism in the Caribbean 13: Carceral Masculinities in the Caribbean, with a Focus on Belize, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago 14: Justice Making and the Performance of Memory in the Francophone Caribbean Section III: Histories and (Re)connections Section III Introduction 15: Multi-ethnic Nation Building and Branding in Suriname 16: Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land: Caribbean Spiritual Survival 17: The Haytian Situation: Haiti in the Imagination of the Nineteenth Century Caribbean 18: ‘Their Locomotive Habits’: Mobility and Post-Emancipation (Dis)Order in Port Cities 19: Caribbean Studies, Queer Studies: Historical Intimates 20: Sovereignty, Possession, Surrender: Caribbean Futures 21: Decolonial Caribbean Thought Section IV: Literature and Culture Section IV Introduction 22: The Making of The Bright Land: Federation and Filmmaking 23: Bloodcloth: Kinship and Fabric in Caribbean Literary Aesthetics 24: Afro-Caribbean and Latinx Archipelagic Connections: Boricuas in Hawai‘i 25: Caribbean Digital Diasporas 26: ‘I’m Still in Love with You Boy’: Black Women, Sexual Politics and Lovers Rock Music’s Erotic Political Entanglements 27: The Sovereign Affects of Caribbean Women’s Poetics 28: ‘Sound Sistrens’: Listening to Female DJs in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction 29: ‘The Repeating Island’: Visual Art, Black Ooze and the Postdiasporic Caribbean