Marie-Galante (Guadeloupe) à l’épreuve des sargasses : approches anthropologique et géographique d’un risque vécu

Abstract

Since 2011, as in other parts of the Caribbean sea, the island of Marie-Galante (Guadeloupe archipelago), and in particular the commune of Capesterre-de-Marie-Galante, has been impacted by the massive and discontinuous Sargassum strandings. Confronted with the same phenomenon, the inhabitants of Capesterre however elaborate divergent and dynamic representations of these successive transformations of the coastline. We will question the elaboration of various registers of memory of the risk and their articulation with the socio-spatial recompositions resulting from this hazard. This article is based on ethnographic materials produced during the multidisciplinary, citizen and artistic project SaRiMed on the dynamics of lifestyles and the consequences on the health of the inhabitants of the French West Indies.

Keywords

• risk
• memory
• Marie-Galante
• Sargassum
• insularity