Reflections on conspicuous sustainability: Creating Small Island Dependent States (SIDS) through Ostentatious Development Assistance (ODA)?

Grydehøj, Adam; Kelman, Ilan

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.08.004

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“…This help led to prescribed and needed educational changes and a shift towards addressing the requirements of the CSSF. The short‐term partnership between IsraAID and the Ministry of Education could be considered, though, as ‘conspicuous sustainability’ or ‘conspicuous ODA’ (Grydehoj and Kelman, 2020). Regardless, the implementation of the Safer Schools initiative was a route to meeting much‐needed long‐term DRE needs in Dominica.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The historical approach to disaster response has varied, from colonial loans or grants to repairs, rather than 'building back better' (Honychurch, 2017). Despite having had a draft National Disaster Plan since 2001 (Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica, 2001), there is a continued reliance on international aid and official development assistance (ODA) (Grydehoj and Kelman, 2020), as well as internal government budgetary reallocations and consultancy, leading to inefficiencies in response and recovery (Barclay et al, 2019).…”

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Returning to normal? ‘Building back better’ in the Dominican education system after Tropical Storm Erika and Hurricane Maria

Parham

2022

Disasters

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Child-centred disaster risk reduction aims to reduce child vulnerability and increase resilience to disasters. The 2015 Comprehensive School Safety Framework (CSSF) sought to decrease hazard risks to education. Between 2015 and 2017, Dominica was struck by Tropical Storm Erika and Hurricane Maria, which significantly affected the education system at the local and national scales. Since Maria, a couple of national initiatives (Safer Schools and Smart Schools) have been introduced to increase resilience and meet the CSSF's objectives. This paper assesses progress made through a qualitative analysis of interviews with 29 school leaders, government officials, and disaster risk reduction stakeholders. Implementation of the climate resilience programme in 2018 resulted in nationwide teacher training and production of school disaster plans. Limited successes have improved social resilience, but short-term implementation due to COVID-19 and a lack of a teacher knowledge base have presented challenges to the scheme's long-term sustainability and the implementation of the CSSF's goals.

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Returning to normal? ‘Building back better’ in the Dominican education system after Tropical Storm Erika and Hurricane Maria

Parham

2022

Disasters

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“…Shamian's spatial presence and the practices within it reflected and were conditioned by its small island geography-that is, its 'islandness': "the small scale of the island territory (smallness); the existence of a spatial frontier (boundedness); the degree and nature of contact with the outside world (isolation); [and] the geographical discontinuity of the island setting (spatial fragmentation)" (Fernandes & Pinho, 2017, p. 5). It was a space that was fully and scientifically configured at a stroke, and its literary and visual representations reflected upon the small island's appeal or allure as site for rapid and comprehensive planning and development, often led or guided by outsiders (Baldacchino, 2020;Grydehøj & Kelman, 2020;Baldacchino, 2012).…”

Section: Analysis: Discourse and Space In The Colonial Island Utopiamentioning

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Literary and cultural (re)productions of a utopian island: Performative geographies of colonial Shamian, Guangzhou in the latter half of the 19th century

Lin¹,

Su²

2022

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In the second half of the 19th century, Shamian was established and developed as a colonial island enclave in the Chinese city of Guangzhou. Simultaneously, literary and cultural imaginations, depictions, and narrations of the place produced a discourse of Shamian as a utopian island: geographically insular and bounded, environmentally beautiful and peaceful, socially exclusive and harmonious, and technologically progressive and advantageous. This paper examines contemporaneous (predominantly English) literary and cultural representations of Shamian as a colonial utopia and their interrelations with the island’s spatial formation and evolution. These texts (primarily written and pictorial descriptive, non-fictional accounts) reflected the spatial reality but also promoted spatial practices that reinforced the physical utopian island. This process exemplifies the theories of performative geographies in island studies and intertextuality in geocriticism, showing how a place’s spatial representations and reality are mutually constructed. Adopting a conceptual model of intertextual performative geographies, this paper investigates the dynamic interplay of these literary and cultural texts with the spatial reality, arguing that literary and cultural representations of Shamian (re)produced the colonial enclave as a utopian island, both conceptually and practically.

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“…Turning to the details of these relational ontologies, Chapter 2 examines the heuristic of 'Resilience' , which we articulate here as the field through which island ontologies have been most obviously adopted by mainstream academic and policy-thinking (Briguglio and Kisanga, 2004;Alliance Magazine, 2012;Baldacchino, 2018;Pugh and Chandler, 2020a;Grydehøj and Kelman, 2020;Kelman, 2020). Resilience is conceptualised by us as an analytical field through which islands have emerged prominently in postmodern or non-modern framings of governance, as an alternative to linear thinking about progress and sustainability in the Anthropocene.…”

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“…Long held as key sites for understanding relational entanglements and feedback effects in evolutionary theory, biology, anthropology, geophysics, and many other disciplines, islands and islanders are notable Correlational modes for sensing and revealing the forces of global warming, rising sea levels, nuclear fallout, intensified hurricanes, and a whole range of other shifting planetary conditions (Cantieri, 2017;Cass, 2018;Pugh and Chandler, 2020b;Grydehøj and Kelman, 2020;West, n.d.). In saying this, therefore, we are not only pointing to how islands are reinterpellated as a 'living laboratory' (Watts, 2018: 105), in the sense of being small and confined sites for modernist methodologies of investigative research (Grydehøj and Kelman, 2017).…”

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Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds

Pugh¹,

Chandler

2021

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The island has become a key figure of the Anthropocene – an epoch in which human entanglements with nature come increasingly to the fore. For a long time, islands were romanticised or marginalised, seen as lacking modernity’s capacities for progress, vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic climate change and the afterlives of empire and coloniality. Today, however, the island is increasingly important for both policy-oriented and critical imaginaries that seek, more positively, to draw upon the island’s liminal and disruptive capacities, especially the relational entanglements and sensitivities its peoples and modes of life are said to exhibit. Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds explores the significant and widespread shift to working with islands for the generation of new or alternative approaches to knowledge, critique and policy practices. It explains how contemporary Anthropocene thinking takes a particular interest in islands as ‘entangled worlds’, which break down the human/nature divide of modernity and enable the generation of new or alternative approaches to ways of being (ontology) and knowing (epistemology). The book draws out core analytics which have risen to prominence (Resilience, Patchworks, Correlation and Storiation) as contemporary policy makers, scholars, critical theorists, artists, poets and activists work with islands to move beyond the constraints of modern approaches. In doing so, it argues that engaging with islands has become increasingly important for the generation of some of the core frameworks of contemporary thinking and concludes with a new critical agenda for the Anthropocene.

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Reflections on conspicuous sustainability: Creating Small Island Dependent States (SIDS) through Ostentatious Development Assistance (ODA)?

Cited by 9 publications

References 75 publications

Returning to normal? ‘Building back better’ in the Dominican education system after Tropical Storm Erika and Hurricane Maria

Returning to normal? ‘Building back better’ in the Dominican education system after Tropical Storm Erika and Hurricane Maria

Literary and cultural (re)productions of a utopian island: Performative geographies of colonial Shamian, Guangzhou in the latter half of the 19th century

Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds

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