1st Edition
(Post)Colonial Ports Place and (Non)Place in the Ecotone
Introduction: Wading into “the Wake”
Jill Didur
Section 1: Trans-Port
1. “Fantasy in the Hold”: The Logistics of Container Architecture, Transivity, and Queer Port Urbanisms
Shauna Janssen and Jo Paterson Kinniburgh
2. The Azulejo as Symbol of Colonial Power Structures: A Deconstruction Through Sugar and Art
Shelley Miller
3. Life and Death in the Port: Petromodernity and Fossil Capital in Abdelrahman Munif’s Cities of Salt
Ian Turner-Pemberton
4. Lost in Transit: Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
Mike Lehman
Section 2: Passages, Partings, Terminus
5. Placing and Dis/placing the Port: Towards a Critical Literary Geography of the Caribbean Port
Pat Noxolo
6. Georgetown: Ecotonal Lessons of “Secret Histories”
Nalini Mohabir
7. Going Against the Flow: Customs and Apartheid Censorship
Rachel Matteau Matsha
8. Pèpè Ports: Haitian Women’s Labour and Resistant Mobility in Cap-Haïtien’s Second-hand Clothing Trade
Charlotte Hammond
Section 3: Environmental Insecurities and Flows of Power
9. Where the Ozama Meets the Caribbean Sea: Dominican Art and Social Advocacy in the Ecotone
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
10. The Frontier and the Wasteland: 21st-Century Gentrification Landscapes in Saint-Henri, Montreal
Devon McKellar
11. Watery Places and Relations: The Burial of a River and Modern Wasting Practices
Tricia Toso
12. Precious Water and Urban Practices in Ondjaki’s Transparent City
Sunjay Mathuria
Biography
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.
