Abstract

Abstract: This long-awaited special issue on the environment is a collaborative effort involving many people, especially Lois Wilcken and Rose Elfman. Proposed after years of prompting by our visionary elder LeGrace Benson, this volume has unfolded during a period that has seen many dramatic and complicated changes in Haiti, across the world at large, and in the individual lives that are woven through and touched by these pages. We’ve collectively been unsettled by the COVID pandemic, the political violence that has marred daily life and governance in Haiti and well beyond, and the uncertainty of a world struggling to look forward while wrestling with its messy past and present. While the urgency of day-to-day survival constricts the breath of so many, often making it impossible to see beyond immediate circumstances, the once seemingly far-off threats from anthropogenic global warming, climate change, and environmental destruction now loom mightily.

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