Journey Round Myself: Crossing Borders. Strengthening Connections. Breaking Boundaries in the Caribbean Cultural
Ecology is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that emanated from the CARIFESTA XIV symposium that bore the
same name. The essays presented here reflect on, interrogate, and expand Errol Hill’s 1999 thesis taken from his
article ‘Journey Round Myself,’ where he outlines what he believed constituted the key ingredients to foster the
deployment of Caribbean cultural resources and assets in the service of Caribbean development. The process of
arrival as charted by Hill requires critical self-interrogation, collaboration, imagination, and a keen sensitivity to
the wider world. The essays in this collection explore these elements and examine issues as varied as aesthetics,
space and place dynamics, the sacred arts, industries inculture, heritage and memory, national identities, agrarian
industries, climate change, and education. In so doing, they all underscore the challenges and beauty of the
Caribbean experience and offer various contemporary perspectives and debates about journeying through this
region and beyond.