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DESCRIPTION:The Caribbean has been identified as a region particularly vuln
 erable to changing climates\, where conservation imperatives have advocated
  for the protection of fragile ocean ecosystems. As shifting ocean environm
 ents refigure marine ecosystems\, making fish scarce in the shallows\, dive
 r fishermen along the coasts of the Dominican Republic dive deeper and stay
  longer in risky conditions. As a result\, decompression sickness (the bend
 s) has become a pervasive injury\, and a way that coastal communities exper
 ience changing ocean health. In this talk\, I examine the connections betwe
 en bodily health and environmental health among Dominican diver fishermen\,
  alongside the ways marine conservation initiatives further marginalize the
  health and well-being of fishing communities. Drawing from ethnographic re
 search with divers who “caught air\,” the local term for the bends\, I argu
 e that decompression sickness is a symptom of the overlapping injustices of
  ecologies in decline and colonial conceptualizations of conservation in th
 e Caribbean.\n\n \n\n Kyrstin Mallon Andrews is Assistant Professor of Anth
 ropology at Syracuse University. Her work explores shifting ocean ecosystem
 s\, environmental politics\, and experiences of health among spearfishermen
  in the Dominican Republic. Her articles and photo essays have appeared in 
 American Anthropologist\, Medical Anthropology Quarterly\, and Current Anth
 ropology.
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LOCATION:Uris Hall\, G08
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SUMMARY:Catching Air: Risk\, Conservation\, and Health in Dominican Dive Fi
 shing 
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URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/catching-air-risk-conservation-and-hea
 lth-in-dominican-dive-fishing
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