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Designing Knowledge Economies for Disaster Resilience, Case Studies from the African Diaspora

Year

2024

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Language

English

Pages

19

ISBN

978-1-80539-171-5

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Last Update

03-Nov-2024

Keywords

sustainability-discipline ; Environmental Science ; Anthropology

Description

he African diaspora constitutes the world’s collection of communities with people descended from Africans and residing all over the globe but, perhaps, predominantly in the Americas and Caribbean, following the mass dispersion from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade of the 1500s–1800s. Most of the African diaspora, also referred to as the Black diaspora, were dispersed from West and Central Africa but maintained their cultural traditions throughout the period of and well after their enslavement. Interaction with the indigenous and other communities and the rest of the world has contributed to cultural legacies influenced by Europeanization, geography, psychological battery,...

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