Zone A: Black Ecologies of the Flood. Duke University Press. (Forthcoming, 2027)
Examines the historical production of New York City’s coastal flood zones as sites where ecological transformation and racial capitalism are fundamentally intertwined. Centering “Zone A,” the city’s highest-risk floodplain, this book traces how colonial capitalism reshaped wetlands and shorelines into environments of extraction, enclosure, and vulnerability. Zone Aargues that flooding is not simply a natural event but a historically produced condition that emerges through the entanglement of race and property. At the same time, the book highlights waterfront spaces as sites of fugitivity, mutual aid, and abolitionist organizing, where Black and Indigenous communities cultivated relations of care with other species and survival within and against the conditions of the flood. Engaging the work of contemporary artists alongside historical archives, it foregrounds creative practice as a method for interpreting and reimagining these socio-ecological histories.
Peer Reviewed Articles:
Guerin, A. “Reading Y-Dang and Lorraine Together” Swirling into a Field of life: Works in Conversation with Y-Dang Troeung: special issue of Canadian Literature (261), November 2025, pp. 87-89
Guerin, A. “Matter and Memory: Black Feminist Poetics and Performance in Berlin, Germany” Meridians: feminism, race transnationalism. Vol 22, April 2023, pp. 115-145
Guerin, A. “Shared routes of mammalian kinship: Race and migration in Long Island whaling diasporas.” Nomadic identities, archipelagic movements, and island diasporas: a special section of Island Studies Journal, 15(2), May 2021, pp. 43-61
Guerin, A. “Underground & at Sea: Oysters and Black Marine Entanglements in New York’s Zone-A.” Shima, 13(2), October 2019, pp. 30-55
Book Chapters:
Guerin, A. “Oysters and the Black Struggle for Freedom” In Bio/Matter/Techno Synthetics (eds.) Susan Kolber & Franca Trubiano. ACTAR, New York, 2025, pp. 32-49
Guerin, A. “We, The Submerged: (Non)Humans, Race and Aquapelagic Relation” in Aquapelagos: Integrated Terrestrial and Marine Assemblages, (eds.) Philip Hayward and May Joseph. Routledge, 2024, pp. 157-173
Guerin, A. “Die Sprache die wir wählen” in Sisters and Souls 2: Inspirationen durch May Ayim (ed) Natasha A. Kelly. Orlanda Frauenverlag, Berlin. 2021, pp. 39-49