This book examines the role of (post)colonial ports in creating and shaping the ecotonal, cultural, historical, material, environmental, socio-political and economic contexts in formerly colonized regions, spanning the Caribbean, Africa, North America, Europe and the Pacific.
This book examines the role of (post)colonial ports in creating and shaping the ecotonal, cultural, historical, material, environmental, socio-political and economic contexts in formerly colonized regions, spanning the Caribbean, Africa, North America, Europe and the Pacific.
Jill Didur is a Professor in English at Concordia University, Montreal. She is co-editor of Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches (2015) and author of Unsettling Partition: Literature, Gender, Memory (2006). Her research focuses on postcolonial approaches to understanding sustainability and the Anthropocene. Nalini Mohabir is an Associate Professor in Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University, Montreal. She teaches in the fields of feminist and postcolonial migration geographies. Her work has appeared in several journals including Small Axe, Habitat International, Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, and Interventions.
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Introduction: Wading into 'the Wake' Section 1: Trans-Port 1. 'Fantasy in the Hold': The Logistics of Container Architecture, Transivity, and Queer Port Urbanisms 2. The Azulejo as Symbol of Colonial Power Structures: A Deconstruction Through Sugar and Art 3. Life and Death in the Port: Petromodernity and Fossil Capital in Abdelrahman Munif's Cities of Salt 4. Lost in Transit: Behrouz Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison Section 2: Passages, Partings, Terminus 5. Placing and Dis/placing the Port: Towards a Critical Literary Geography of the Caribbean Port 6. Georgetown: Ecotonal Lessons of 'Secret Histories' 7. Going Against the Flow: Customs and Apartheid Censorship 8. Pèpè Ports: Haitian Women's Labour and Resistant Mobility in Cap-Haïtien's Second-hand Clothing Trade Section 3: Environmental Insecurities and Flows of Power 9. Where the Ozama Meets the Caribbean Sea: Dominican Art and Social Advocacy in the Ecotone 10. The Frontier and the Wasteland: 21st Century Gentrification Landscapes in Saint-Henri, Montreal 11. Watery Places and Relations: The Burial of a River and Modern Wasting Practices 12. Precious Water and Urban Practices in Ondjaki's Transparent City
Introduction: Wading into 'the Wake' Section 1: Trans-Port 1. 'Fantasy in the Hold': The Logistics of Container Architecture, Transivity, and Queer Port Urbanisms 2. The Azulejo as Symbol of Colonial Power Structures: A Deconstruction Through Sugar and Art 3. Life and Death in the Port: Petromodernity and Fossil Capital in Abdelrahman Munif's Cities of Salt 4. Lost in Transit: Behrouz Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison Section 2: Passages, Partings, Terminus 5. Placing and Dis/placing the Port: Towards a Critical Literary Geography of the Caribbean Port 6. Georgetown: Ecotonal Lessons of 'Secret Histories' 7. Going Against the Flow: Customs and Apartheid Censorship 8. Pèpè Ports: Haitian Women's Labour and Resistant Mobility in Cap-Haïtien's Second-hand Clothing Trade Section 3: Environmental Insecurities and Flows of Power 9. Where the Ozama Meets the Caribbean Sea: Dominican Art and Social Advocacy in the Ecotone 10. The Frontier and the Wasteland: 21st Century Gentrification Landscapes in Saint-Henri, Montreal 11. Watery Places and Relations: The Burial of a River and Modern Wasting Practices 12. Precious Water and Urban Practices in Ondjaki's Transparent City
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