Articles & Chapters

Peer-reviewed Articles

  • Jerez Columbié, Y. (In Press). Hurakán/hurricane culture. Environmental Humanities.

This peer-reviewed entry for the Environmenal Humanities journal’s Living Lexicon creatively defines the concept of ‘hurakán/hurricane culture,’ which refers to the evolving knowledges, beliefs, narratives, practices, and artistic expressions co-developed by people in the Hurricane Belt, which has its epicenter in the Caribbean.

  • Jerez Columbié, Y. (2024). ‘Earthquake relief. Mexico. 2051’: escrituras geológicas en un relato especulativo de Malka Older, Modern Languages Open, 0(1), pp. 1–12. https://doi.org/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.482

This research article discusses the role of speculative fiction for transferring perspectives and methodologies from the Arts and the Humanities to areas of interdisciplinary collaboration, disaster discourses and environmental policies. The analysis of the presence or absence of food and a snack room in a disaster shelter is used as an entry point to interrogate the ethical and affective dimensions of professional humanitarian aid.

  • Jerez Columbié, Y. (2022) Transculturation and Performance in the Jocs Florals of Havana. Journal of Catalan Studies, 23 (1), pp. 55–81.

This research article discusses the role of Circum-Atlantic performances in the transformation of identities in the Caribbean, with a focus on the re-enactment of the Catalan literary ceremonies of the Jocs Florals [Floral Games] in a tropical environment.

  • Jerez Columbié, Y. (2021). People of the Mangrove: A Lens into Socioecological Interactions in the Ecuadorian Black Pacific. ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 20 (2), pp. 74–94. https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3808

The black cockles that can be found between the roots of the tallest mangroves of the planet, in the Cayapas Mataje Reserve in Ecuador, are considered a culinary delicacy. The pricy shells are picked mainly by children and teenagers, whose smaller bodies and hands, unlike those of adults, can reach the precious cockles with ease. This article explores children’s and women’s environmental stewardship in support of food sustainability and biodiversity conservation through the lens of photographer Felipe Jácome and makes a case for studying the Black Pacific as an extension of the Caribbean.

The paper draws upon evidence from the Caribbean Risk Management Initiative (CRMI) offering vital knowledge of productive climate security governance that can be applied globally. It analyses the risk-reduction-management pilot projects implemented between 2011 and 2014 in the British Virgin Islands, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago, vis-á-vis the experiences of Cuba and Puerto Rico during the 2017 Hurricane Season.

  • Jerez Columbié, Y. (2020). Sketches of Black People by White Catalan-Cuban Intellectuals: Transculturation in Fernando Ortiz’s and Jaume Valls’s Afrocubanismo in 1920s Havana. Anthurium A Caribbean Studies Journal, 16 (2), pp. 1–11. https://anthurium.miami.edu/articles/10.33596/anth.362/

The analysis includes a comparison of graphic artists Lluís Bagaria’s and Jaume Vall’s representations of blackness in the Catalan-Cuban journal La Nova Catalunya (Havana, 1908–1959) to illustrate processes of transculturation.

This article reveals a less known role of Catalan intellectual Prudenci Bertana as a writer-journalist in Havana through the recovery of unexplored texts.

Book Chapters

  • Jerez Columbié, Y. (In Press). Chapter 3: Paradoxically, writing eco-poetry. In A. Ortega, H. Sandal-Wilson and N. Tanna (Eds.), Creaction: Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice. UCL Press.

In this book chapter, I explore my own creative practice considering lessons learned from reading Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite. I make a case for understanding eco-poetry as a form of scholarship for environmental knowledge-making.

  • Jerez Columbié, Y. (2022). Adapting to climate change through disaster risk reduction in the Caribbean: lessons from the Global South in tackling the Sustainable Development Goals. In S. Flood, Y. Jerez Columbié, M. Le Tissier & B. O’Dwyer (Eds.). Creating Resilient Futures: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas (pp. 183–203). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80791-7_9

This chapter focuses on South-South Cooperation between Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) on Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Management and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It analyses different programmes inlcuding countries such as Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, to illustrate successful knowledge-transfer experiences in the Caribbean.

  • Flood, S., Jerez Columbié, Y., Le Tissier, M. & O’Dwyer B. (2022). Introduction: Can the Sendai Framework, the Paris Agreement, and Agenda 2030 Provide a Path Towards Societal Resilience? In S. Flood, Y. Jerez Columbié, M. Le Tissier & B. O’Dwyer (Eds.). Creating Resilient Futures: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas (pp. 1–19). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80791-7_1

The chapter sets out the multifaceted nature of climate change and the potential value in integrating the agendas of Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and the Sustainable Development Goals to increase societal resilience. It then describes the scope of the book under its three sections: best practice approaches, Irish case studies and international case studies.

Publicly Available Reports

This report informs climate-related environmental policies, legislation, regulations and guidelines in Ireland, drawing upon best practices identified in international case studies of environmental participatory process, including initiatives from Latin America, the Caribbean and North America.

  • Máñez Costa, M.; Oen, A.M.P.; Neset, T.S.; Celliers, L.; Suhari, M; Huang-Lachmann, J.T.; Pimentel, R.; Blair, B.; Jeuring, J.; Rodriguez-Camino, E.; Photiadou, C.; Jerez Columbié, Y.; Gao, C.; Tudose, N.C.; Cheval, S., Votsis, A.; West, J.; Lee, K.; Shaffrey, L.C.; Auer, C.; Hoff, H.; Menke, I.; Walton, P.; Schuck-Zöller, S. , (2022). Co-production of Climate Services: A diversity of approaches and good practice from the ERA4CS projects (2017–2021), CSPR Report Series, No 2021:2, Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research, pp. 1–56. DOI: 10.3384/9789179291990

I integrated Latin American and Caribbean knowledge and case studies in this collaborative document of the European Research Area for Climate Services (ERA4CS) Working Group ‘Climate Services Co-Design.’ This public report is the result of co-creation activities and provides guidelines for funding bodies, policymakers, and energy companies aiming to integrate inclusion principles in their work.

Opinion Pieces 

  • Jerez Columbié, Y. (2023). An Atlantic eco-poetics of relations: Intercultural communication and Caribbean decolonising approaches to face the climate crisis, PLOS Climate, 2, (4), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000187

This commissioned opinion article discussed the urgency of climate impacts, the important role of subaltern epistemologies, and opportunities for climate justice.

RTÉ Brainstorm is a space where the academic and research community contributes to public debate in Ireland. This opinion piece discusses how extreme weather events like hurricanes teach us important lessons about our entangled natural, social, cultural and political contexts.

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