1st Edition

Barbuda Changing Times, Changing Tides

Edited By Sophia Perdikaris, Rebecca Boger Copyright 2023
180 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

180 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

180 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

This volume explores a range of themes including impacts of climate change, resilience, sustainability, indigeneity, cultural genocide, disaster capitalism, preservation of biodiversity, and environmental degradation. Focusing on the island of Barbuda in the West Indies, it shares critical insights into how climate change is reshaping our world. The book examines how climate has changed in the... Read more

Preface

Sophia Perdikaris and Edith Gonzalez

 

Introduction

Sophia Perdikaris and Rebecca Boger

 

1. A long-term perspective of climate change in the Caribbean and its impacts on the island of Barbuda

Michael J. Burn, Rebecca Boger, Jonathan Holmes, and Allison Bain

 

2. Water use and availability on Barbuda from the colonial times to the present: An intersection of natural and social systems

Rebecca Boger and Sophia Perdikaris

 

3. Developing agency and resilience in the face of climate change: Ways of knowing, feeling, and practicing through art and science

Jennifer D. Adams and Noel Hefele

 

4. Fallow deer: The unprotected biocultural heritage of Barbuda

Naomi Sykes

 

5. From the far ground to the near ground: Barbuda’s shifting agricultural practices

Amy E. Potter

 

6. Written with lightning: Filming Barbuda before the storm

Russell Leigh Sharman

 

7. Disaster capitalism: Who has a right to control their future?

Emira Ibrahimpašić, Sophia Perdikaris, and Rebecca Boger

Biography

Sophia Perdikaris is Director of Global Integrative Studies (the home of Anthropology, Geography, and Global Studies) and Happold Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Her area is environmental archaeology with a specialty in animal bones from archaeological sites. She is interested in people–environment interactions through time and the response of both to big climatic events.

Rebecca Boger is Professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY), USA, and has a background in geospatial technologies, environmental science, and science education. Her research in Barbuda examines socio-ecological resilience, sustainability, environmental/climate change modeling, and community-based mapping.