[GEOG MAJORS] Geography Colloquium Friday, April 26: Beyond Repair? The crisis of ecological imperialism and reparative ecologies in the Caribbean

[Nell Gross via geogu-l]

Beyond Repair? The crisis of ecological imperialism and reparative ecologies in the Caribbean

Keston K Perry (Assistant Professor of African American Studies, UCLA)


Friday, April 26, at 3:30pm in Smith 304

All are welcome


As climate injustices worsen, imperial and capitalist forces continue to imperil Black and racialized communities in the Caribbean through coercive debts, economic displacements, and land dispossession. This talk explains the need to dismantle Euro-American imperialism which has generated so-called technological and financial "solutions" that fail to address intersecting ecological, political and economic disasters. I show how these disasters themselves constitute social forces that arise from the uneven and racialized geographies created in the wake of colonialism, World War II and neoliberalism. Such crises have reconfigured and prompted new ways of doing, organizing, resisting and being "human", or what I call reparative ecologies which refer to the collective efforts, alternative economies and epistemic frameworks that communities facing multiple, intersecting calamities deploy in response to capitalist/imperial domination and socio-ecological pressures. I explain how a crisis of ecological imperialism emerges from these ongoing uneven relations of power, resources, knowledge and capitalist domination led by corporate, state, financial and international development agencies. While these institutions propose such mechanisms that further exploitation, Caribbean peoples resist by enacting new forms of solidarity, mutuality, communal care that foster new freedom spaces and possibilities for Black life.


Keston K. Perry<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/afam.ucla.edu/person/keston-perry/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!lfV-STgr_dHpEtXcbQ_PXantVw8VtYCT9bklVlhhlejcKThRjNTlpyUVIWb7mVRylUGSJlbkb6G7BJumArY$>, PhD. is a political economist whose teaching and research centers on race, reparations, plantation economy, colonialism and climate change, Caribbean political economy and economic history, and global finance and governance. Based on interdisciplinary research and scholarship, his work examines the entanglements of race as an economic ordering driver in the climate crisis, capitalism and related global financial arrangements, and their implications on marginalized communities in the African diaspora, especially the Caribbean region. He investigates how the global financial system and international climate policy affects Caribbean societies in the context of intersecting economic and ecological crises. He has spoken widely on issues of Caribbean economic development, climate reparations, ecological justice and the relationship to colonialism and imperialism.


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Megan Ybarra
she/her/hers<https://wellbeing.uw.edu/resources/sharing-pronouns/>
Associate Professor of Geography
University of Washington
Website: www.meganybarra.com<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.meganybarra.com/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!lfV-STgr_dHpEtXcbQ_PXantVw8VtYCT9bklVlhhlejcKThRjNTlpyUVIWb7mVRylUGSJlbkb6G7AIuNq7U$>
Office Hours: https://meet.boomerangapp.com/mybarra.uw.edu/15mins<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/meet.boomerangapp.com/mybarra.uw.edu/15mins__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!lfV-STgr_dHpEtXcbQ_PXantVw8VtYCT9bklVlhhlejcKThRjNTlpyUVIWb7mVRylUGSJlbkb6G7I4yOXEM$>
Recent Publication: Ybarra, M (2023) "Indigenous to where? Homelands and nation (pueblo) in Indigenous Latinx studies.<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/rdcu.be/cZZt7__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!jGyY3sNd6ri1dB5AL6pbOZ2o3nGSbfG-r6QygMMh75hrhNQL50_GV7_XxcUBkSdfb9Qn3VoEole5fNSp_ss8h8dHynQPBufZ$>" Latino Studies 21: 22 - 41.
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