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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lloréns, Hilda, author.

Series:

Decolonizing feminisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Puerto Rico--Social conditions.

Women.

African Americans--Puerto Rico.

African Americans.

Ecofeminism.

History.

Social conditions.

Puerto Rico.

Ecofeminism--Puerto Rico--History.

Women--Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2021.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Surviving Matriarchal Dispossession

2. Doing Home-Work in the Motherland

3. Life-Affirming Practices

4. Living with/in Ecological Catastrophe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-200) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lloréns, Hilda. Making livable worlds

ISBN:

9780295749396

0295749393

9780295749402

0295749407

OCLC:

1245578556

Publisher Number:

99989053366