Sarah Earnshaw is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. She is developing her new project, ÔDisaster Temporalities: Race, Resilience, and Return in US Temporary Protection and Caribbean Climate MobilitiesÕ as a tandem fellow in the History of Forced Migration and Environment across the German Historical Institute and Zolberg Institute. Embracing an environmental humanities perspective alongside her work in political theory and the history of International Relations, her research interests revolve around the entanglements of security and liberty, humanitarianism, and questions of empire in US foreign relations. Her doctoral research, ÔÒFreedom Will Be DefendedÓ: The Human Rights Regime of Truth and Standards of Sovereignty in US SecurityÕ won the Bavarian American AcademyÕs Dissertation Prize 2020.
The contours of what we refer to as the Caribbean have been indelibly shaped by US empire: fault-lines inscribed in the landscape, as in the Panama Canal; in more classically […]