The Stronger Caribbean Together Podcast is a monthly conversation between the Stronger Caribbean Together project team and Caribbean partners working on the frontlines.

For the first season, co-hosts Kristinia Doughorty and Dr. André Habet talk to people from the regional Stronger Caribbean Together network about the ways their communities are confronting the challenges of disaster capitalism as people across the Caribbean, Stand Stronger Together: ‘United Against Disaster Capitalism.’ 

 For the first episode, Kristinia and André are joined by John Mussington of the Save Barbuda movement and Aaron Caton and Valentine Douglas from the Grenada Land Actors.  During this discussion, they speak about how they became familiar with disaster capitalism, some of the fundamental issues that enable disaster capitalism, and what networks like Stronger Caribbean Together provide to local grassroots mobilizing. Our guests also talk through how we might rethink the language and meaning of development in the Caribbean.

To learn more about the work of Save Barbuda and the Grenada Land Actors, visit strongercaribbeantogether.org.

To read a transcript of this episode, visit https://strongercaribbeantogether.org/introduction-to-disaster-capitalism-with-john-mussington-aaron-caton-and-valentine-douglas.

This podcast was produced through a grant from the Open Society Foundations.

Resources

Article from Now Grenada outlining the multimillion-dollar loan from China to the Grenadian government, that Valentine Douglas, of the Grenada Land Actors, highlights in the podcast

https://nowgrenada.com/2021/05/grenada-receives-partial-disbursement-of-airport-loan-from-china/

Channel 4 news 'Barbuda: Islanders still homeless after a hurricane; land bulldozed for airport'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqofuh_2lo0&ab_channel=Channel4News

Carby, Barbara. 'Building Resilience: Imperative Questions for Caribbean Policymakers and Disaster Risk Management Practitioners.' SALISES Sustainable Futures Policy Brief. no. 1, 2018.

https://uwi.edu/salises-mona/sites/salises-mona/files/Policy%20Brief%20PDF/SALISES-PolicyBriefApril2018-Issue1.pdf

Gould, K. A., & Lewis, T. L. (2018). Green Gentrification and Disaster Capitalism in Barbuda. NACLA Report on the Americas, 50(2), 148-153. ⁠⁠https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2018.1479466⁠⁠

Klein Naomi. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. 1st ed. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt 2007.

Schuller, M., & Maldonado, J. K. (2016). Disaster capitalism. Annals of Anthropological Practice, 40(1), 61–72. ⁠https://doi.org/10.1111/napa.12088⁠

Rhiney, K. (2020). Dispossession, disaster capitalism and the post-hurricane context in the Caribbean. Political Geography, 78(102171). ⁠https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102171

Seas the Day, 'Disaster Capitalism', Duke University ⁠https://open.spotify.com/episode/0a9jOggdlrKAHo7a8fhTPI?si=nZFEvlSDR-OZfJOKPi0OPg⁠

This podcast offers an international comparative assessment of the post-disaster reconstruction doctrine of Build back Better.