Description
Book SynopsisDestination Anthropocenedocuments the emergence of new travel imaginaries forged at the intersection of the natural sciences and the tourism industry in a Caribbean archipelago.Known to travelers as aparadise of sun, sand, and sea, The Bahamas is rebranding itself in response to the rising threat of global environmental change, including climate change. In her imaginative new book, Amelia Moore explores anexperimentalform oftourism developed in the name of sustainability, one that is slowly changing the way both tourists and Bahamians come to know themselves and relate to island worlds.
Trade Review"Moore digs deep into the trenches of ethnographic detail to demonstrate the entangled ways that science and tourism commingle in the 'significant spaces' of small islands as critical spaces." * Current Anthropology *
"The book is a stellar effort to denaturalize both the Anthropocene and anthropogenesis and expose instead the global, classed interests that are served by such naturalizations. Researchers, students and policy makers interested in climate justice would particularly benefit from engaging with this work." * Anthropology Book Forum *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Anthropocene Islands
1 Building Biocomplexity
2 The Educational Islands
3 Sea of Green
4 Aquatic Invaders in the Anthropocene
5 Down the Blue Hole
Conclusion: Anthropocene Anthropology
Notes
References
Index
