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On hurricane Irma and not being the Red Cross

9/10/2017

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Irma is record-breaking all round, did enormous damage to islands in the Caribbean, and has at the time of writing just cut-off 4 million people from electricity in Florida. Hurricanes turn everything on its head; metaphorically, but also painfully literally. My fieldwork area, St. Maarten, St. Eustatius and Saba, was hit by Irma in the night of Tuesday 5th to Wednesday 6th of September, and images of upside-down cars and torn down houses flooded the media.


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    Jetske Vaas (1990) started her PhD in March 2015. She works on the governance of invasive plant species in the Dutch Caribbean, for which the management of goats might prove to be pivotal.

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