| Title | Black Atlantis |
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| Contributor | Amelia Moore (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0404.1.24 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/solarities-elemental-encounters-and-refractions/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Amelia Moore |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2023-11-22 |
| Long abstract | This chapter examines solarity as it manifests in coral restoration efforts in The Bahamas. Utilizing three examples, 1) a for-profit venture for growing coral fragments, 2) a private island tourism destination, and 3) a mega resort, Moore describes “colonial/corporate sun” as a means to harvest solar energies through coral-based extractive economies. Moore then contrasts these efforts with an example of “ocean love”, led by a Bahamian woman whose coral-based work is grounded in community resilience and survival, connecting her work to larger Diasporic conversations around the Middle Passage, Black marine life, and disruptive ways of imagining and living in the world. Far from the “blue economy”, this process by which coral restoration can come to anchor emergent and resistant solarian materialities of knowing and being in the Caribbean, is an instantiation of the “Black Atlantis”. |
| Page range | pp. 287–299 |
| Print length | 13 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Amelia Moore is an Associate Professor of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island. She has degrees in Environmental Biology from Columbia University and Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of California Berkeley. Her research involves the social role of islands in ecological and environmental knowledge production, and she approaches this topic through the lens of antiracist, anticolonial, feminist science and technology studies and black ecologies.