Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice (Decolonizing Feminisms)
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Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice (Decolonizing Feminisms)

Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice (Decolonizing Feminisms)

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Hilda Llorens (Author)  

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When Hurricanes Irma and Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, their destructive force further devastated an archipelago already pummeled by economic austerity, political upheaval, and environmental calamities. To navigate these multiple ongoing crises, Afro-Puerto Rican women have drawn from their cultural knowledge to engage in daily improvisations that enable their communities to survive and thrive. Their life-affirming practices, developed and passed down through generations, offer powerful modes of resistance to gendered and racialized exploitation, ecological ruination, and deepening capitalist extraction. Through solidarity, reciprocity, and an ethics of care, these women create restorative alternatives to dispossession to produce good, meaningful lives for their communities. Making Livable Worlds weaves together autobiography, ethnography, interviews, memories, and fieldwork to recast narratives that continuously erase Black Puerto Rican women as agents of social change. In doing so, Llorens serves as an "ethnographer of home" as she brings to life the powerful histories and testimonies of a marginalized, disavowed community that has been treated as disposable. 5 b&w illus.
Hilda Llorens is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Rhode Island and author of Imaging the Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race, and Gender during the American Century.
  • Contributor: Hilda Llorens
  • Imprint: University of Washington Press
  • ISBN13: 9780295749396
  • Number of Pages: 224
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Packaged Weight: 494
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: University of Washington Press
  • Release Date: 2021-11-24
  • Series: Decolonizing Feminisms
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Hilda Llorens is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Rhode Island and author of Imaging the Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race, and Gender during the American Century.

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