Sea level rise will make all current atlases obsolete as it encroaches on coastlines and erases
whole islands from the Arctic to the South Pacific. In Christina Gerhardt's stunning atlas of
the present and future we not only see these living places disappear in stages but hear from
their inhabitants in this mix of cartography science history and urgent outcry about the
climate crisis. This book makes tangible and visible both the physical changes and their
cultural emotional and social impact.--Rebecca Solnit author of several books including
Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases--San Francisco New Orleans New York This book presents
islands as more than just geographic locations as places of resilience replete with history
and culture laced with the fiber that underscores the interface of planet people and other
beings in the time of looming catastrophic climate change. Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a
Rising Ocean maps hopes and histories and offers cautionary tales and wake-up calls couched in
sensitive yet expansive poetics of life. This is a rare gift.--Nnimmo Bassey author of To Cook
a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa Islands are
extraordinarily rich--in history culture and biodiversity. In an age of climate change
they're also incredibly vulnerable. At once lyrical and clear-sighted Sea Change: An Atlas of
Islands in a Rising Ocean invites us to rethink our relationship to these magical threatened
places.--Elizabeth Kolbert author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History A vital guide
to understanding and navigating this time of rising oceans. A love song to island peoples and
civilizations facing unimaginable loss. A paean of resistance and re-visioning towards livable
futures.--Shailja Patel author of Migritude In this engaging and timely work Gerhardt maps
how islands have and will continue to change due to rising sea levels. She invites us to see
these changes not only through the form and genre of the atlas but also through the eyes
voices and perspectives of islanders themselves.--Craig Santos Perez author of Navigating
CHamoru Poetry: Indigeneity Aesthetics and Decolonization Christina Gerhardt's Sea Change is
an urgent resource for an urgent moment of social and climatological upheaval.
Islands--reproduced in a colonial imagination as bounded isolated geographies--are dynamic
sites of political imagination and ecological worldmaking. Gerhardt provides us with a grammar
to make sense of our shared predicaments and unsung solidarities as island-dwelling
communities.--Ryan Jobson University of Chicago
