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Climate change is a global issue that will impact the preservation of historic heritage sites. However, much of the research on the impacts of climate change on historic heritage sites has focused on Europe and in the United States, studies have largely centered on National Park Service (NPS) sites. In the state of Georgia, a number of heritage tou...
While Mount Vernon, Monticello, Montpelier, and Highland work to recover the lives of people enslaved by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, their institutional missions emphasize the importance of these four men within American history. The resulting impediments to honoring Black lives within these spaces can be best understood using the a...
Remembering Enslavement explores plantation museums as sites for contesting and reforming public interpretations of slavery in the American South. Emerging out of a three-year National Science Foundation grant (2014–17), the book turns a critical eye toward the growing inclusion of the formerly enslaved within these museums, specifically examining...
This paper serves as a preliminary commentary on the future resilience and vulnerability of Southern sites of memory about and for Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC). We dis-cuss interactions between memory and the environment that present opportunities for more just, equitable, and sustainable commemorations as well as interactio...
In the United States, visitors to heritage sites have been steadily declining, and in the wake of this phenomenon, these sites have often turned to edutainment as a way to diversify methods to earn diminishing revenue in an increasingly competitive heritage tourism market. The term edutainment is a portmanteau (education/entertainment) signifying t...
Food security is one of the most pressing issues facing our planet. With this in mind, three professors from different disciplinary backgrounds, cultural geography, geosciences, and science education, created a 3-week module, The Wicked Problem of Global Food Security, collaboratively through the InTeGrate project. The interdisciplinary module has...
This article, structured as a prompt-and-response work, is authored by members of a research team investigating how slavery is absent and present at tourism plantation museums in the U.S. South. The prompt for the discussion grew out of E. Arnold Modlin’s concern that, even at museums where narratives and landscapes center on enslaved people, the p...
Drawing upon Katherine McKittrick’s classic text Demonic Grounds (2006) and other critical race and Black geographies literature, this chapter analyses the powerful ways that women – primarily Black women – shape public memory and historical interpretation of Black History in the United States, challenging the dominant narratives of slavery (typica...
Antigua and Barbuda’s inaugural National Pavilion at the 16th International Architectural Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia explores environmental justice as a civil right through an investigation into the acute crisis of climate change facing this island nation.
Situated in a fifteenth-century monastery in the heart of Venice, Antigua & Barbuda...
Museums and heritage tourism sites are highly curated places of memory work whose function is the assembling and ordering of space and narrative to contour visitors’ experiences of the past. Variations in such experiences within and between sites, however, necessitates a method that: (1) captures how guides, visitors, and exhibits interact within s...
“Wade in the water Wade in the water, children, Wade in the water God’s a-going to trouble the water.” African-American Spiritual Tybee Island, Georgia has a problematic racial history. During the Jim Crow era, the popular beach town was segregated and off-limits to Sa-vannah’s majority African American population. More recently, Tybee officials ha...
The country of Antigua and Barbuda comprises two islands located in the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean. While both islands are positioned on the Barbuda Bank, they each consist of a unique geologic setting: Antigua is composed of volcanic rock, clay, and limestone, while Barbuda is largely limestone with prominent cave features. Their unique attr...
Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao consist of five islands that make up the Leeward Islands of the Dutch Antilles off of the northern coast of South America, often referred to as the ABCs. Because of location, the islands share similar characteristics of climate, geology, geomorphology, and history, though each bears a variation of these characteristics....
Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao consist of five islands that make up the Leeward Islands of the Dutch Antilles off of the northern coast of South America, often referred to as the ABCs. Because of location, the three islands share similar characteristics of climate, geology, geomorphology, and history, though each island bears a variation of these chara...
n interdisciplinary team of natural and social scientists is working closely with local experts to document, understand, and find solutions to the pressing social and environmental challenges facing the Small Island Developing State (SIDS) of Barbuda, Lesser Antilles. Until the mid-1900s, Barbudans were mostly self-sufficient and provided for the m...
Research has shown how little tour guides in the American South talk about slavery and the enslaved during plantation home tours. However, most of this literature fails to interview the guides directly and consider their perspectives. This research builds upon this work but ultimately diverges by taking a different methodological approach, intervie...
The examination of social memory and heritage tourism has grown considerably over the past few decades as scholars have critically re-examined the relationships between past memories and present actions at international, national, and local scales. Methodological innovation and reflection have accompanied theoretical advances as researchers strive...
One of the basic tenets of transnational-migration scholarship centers on the role of rapid communication in facilitating greater connections between migrants to their home communities. Utilizing the concept of transnational space, I will illustrate through a case study how islanders from Barbuda maintained complex connections to home, particularly...
The island of Barbuda has a relatively unique history, land tenure and geography. Unlike its Caribbean counterparts, the island is not suited to large-scale agriculture due to its arid climate and relatively thin soils. Instead, the enslaved and eventually free people of Barbuda developed a complex herding ecology centered on common land ownership....
The historical and present-day interactions between people and the natural environment on the relatively undeveloped Caribbean island of Barbuda are being investigated to develop a framework to enhance future sustainability and resilience through local self-sufficiency. As a semi-enclosed island system, Barbuda provides an excellent venue to examin...
Federal relief funds distributed during the Great Depression provided unprecedented support for archaeology in the United States, resulting in a new understanding of Native American lifeways in the Southeast. Ultimately, these funds led to robust archaeological studies in the state of Louisiana and the establishment of an interdisciplinary Departme...
This article describes experiential-learning approaches to conveying the work and rewards involved in qualitative research. Seminar students interviewed one another, transcribed or took notes on those interviews, shared those materials to create a set of empirical materials for coding, developed coding schemes, and coded the materials using those s...
Focusing on the smaller sister-island of Barbuda, part of the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda, a group of collaborating anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists, education specialists, geographers, and environmental scientists are studying long-term human ecodynamics, the relationship amongst people, place, and the environment from the b...
The article examines cattle herding and communal land tenure in Barbuda as well as other aspects of island society including the Barbudan transnational community.
Barbuda remains little developed and sparsely populated relative to its neighbors in the Leeward Lesser Antilles, a rather extraordinary and relatively unknown Caribbean place. Much of its distinctiveness derives from the communal land-tenure system, itself rooted in three centuries of open-range cattle herding. Yet, as revealed through interviews,...
Newspaper articles in the United States paint a picture of Haiti as a failed state, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. These articles place the blame of the country's problems entirely on Haiti itself, with little regard for the outside forces that also contributed to the country's present-day state. This study is a critical geopolitica...
