Making livable worlds : Afro-Puerto Rican women building environmental justice / Hilda Lloréns.

9780295749419 electronic book
0295749415 electronic book
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0295749407 electronic book
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Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2021]

English

1 online resource.

HQ1522 .L56 2021

(OCoLC)1246674727

"When hurricanes Irma and María made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 2017, their destructive force further devastated an archipelago already pommeled by economic austerity and the decline of liberal democratic governance and its safety net programs. Within the context of economic, political and environmental turmoil of contemporary Puerto Rico, Lloréns centers the work, activism, and lives of those often erased within Puerto Rican society: Black Puerto Rican women. Engaging with anthropology, history and autobiography, Lloréns situates her own "kinfolk" in the island's southeast region, a sugar producing area home to a large Afro-descendant community. Combining autoethnographic narration with the insights of Black studies and decolonial anthropology, Lloréns focuses on practices of mutual care, reciprocity, and solidarity that sustain Black women in the immediate aftermath of these disasters, and which provide the basis for these often excluded communities to survive and thrive, relying on Black ecological knowledge developed over hundreds of years. Narratively rich in its attention to everyday forms of struggle, Making Livable Worlds foregrounds Black women's agency and ongoing efforts to build "a good life" for themselves and their communities"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2021).

Decolonizing feminisms.

Print version: Lloréns, Hilda. Making livable worlds Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2021

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