Catastrophe & Environment

Volume 14 Number 2


Catastrophe and Environment

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

  • ANTHONY CARRIGAN

POETRY

  • SHIRANI RAJAPAKSE, Conversations in the Dark
  • OLIVE SENIOR, Greenhorn, Hurricane Watch, Volcano
  • NIYI OSUNDARE, The Tremor and the Terror, Head in the Sand,

    Stubborn Hope

FICTION

  • CHANDANI LOKUGE, Sand Bars of Memory – The Tsunami in Sri Lanka

ARTICLES

  • ANTHONY CARRIGAN, Introduction: Representing Catastrophe
  • SHARAE DECKARD, ‘Calligraphy of the Wave’: Disaster Representation

    and the Indian Ocean Tsunami

  • LIESBETH OUWEHAND, Disastrous Encounters: Photographic Representations

    of Catastrophe in the Dutch East Indies

  • MARK D. ANDERSON, Invoking the Evident: Self-Globalization and the

    Irrefutability of the Modern Image in Trujillo’s Disaster Diplomacy

  • ALAN RAMÓN WARD, Disaster as Event: Yvonne Weekes’s Volcano

  • KASIA MIKA, Recovery Foreclosed: History, Landscape, and Personal

    Intervention in Sandra Marquez Stathis’s Rubble: The Search for a Haitian Boy

  • MICHAEL NIBLETT, Time and Tidalectics Wait for No Nam:

    Catastrophe and Creativity in the Work of Kamau Brathwaite

  • ILAN KELMAN, Climate Change and Other Catastrophes:

    Lessons from Island Vulnerability and Resilience

  • COVER IMAGE, Frantz Zephirin, ‘We Need Help’ (2010)

REVIEWS

  • by Matthew Whittle, David Farrier

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS