Journal of West Indian Literature (JWIL)
Call for Papers: Journal of West Indian Literature Special Issue on Literature, Art, and Environmental Activism
Writers, filmmakers, musicians, and other arts performers have taken a leading role in protesting governmental failure and corporate responsibility for environmental destruction and disaster across the Caribbean. In the 2000s, Caribbean writers, filmmakers, visual and other artists have spoken truth to power in Puerto Rico and Dominica after the tragedy of Hurricane Maria, in the struggle to preserve Jamaica’s Cockpit country from bauxite mining, and against extractive industries, tourism, ...
Reclaiming the Commons, Rethinking Risk
Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”
July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon
The idea of the commons begins from the belief that capitalism is no longer viable as a socio-economic system and that the contemporary state no longer functions in a manner that meets population needs. The process of thinking and implementing system-wide change beyond late liberal market and state implies an emergent shift in the definition and management of risk that has hitherto subtended forms of governance, social ...