Energy Island: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico - Couverture souple

De Onís, Catalina M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520380622 ISBN 13 : 9780520380622

Editeur : University of California Press, 2021

Synopsis

Energy Islands provides an urgent and nuanced portrait of collective action that resists racial capitalism, colonialism, and climate disruption. Weaving together historical and ethnographic research, this story challenges the master narratives of Puerto Rico as a tourist destination and site of "natural" disasters to demonstrate how fossil fuel economies are inextricably entwined with colonial practices and how local community groups in Puerto Rico have struggled against energy coloniality to mobilize and transform power from the ground up.

Catalina M. de Onís documents how these groups work to decenter continental contexts and deconstruct damaging hierarchies that devalue and exploit rural coastal communities. She highlights and collaborates with individuals who refuse the cruel logics of empire by imagining and implementing energy justice and other interconnected radical power transformations. Diving deeply into energy, islands, and power, this book engages various metaphors for alternative world-making.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Catalina M. de Onís is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. She coauthored of the book "¡Ustedes tienen que limpiar las cenizas e irse de Puerto Rico para siempre!" La lucha por la justicia ambiental, climática y energética como trasfondo del verano de Revolución Boricua 2019.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520380622
• ISBN 13: 9780520380622
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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