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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lloréns, Hilda, author.

Series:

Decolonizing Feminisms

Decolonizing feminisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Puerto Rico.

African Americans.

Ecofeminism--History--Puerto Rico.

Ecofeminism.

Women--Social conditions--Puerto Rico.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington State : 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, Llorens centers the work, activism, and lives of those often erased within Puerto Rican society: Black Puerto Rican women. Engaging with anthropology, history and autobiography, Llorens 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, Llorens 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:

Cover

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Persevering through Life's Turbulent Ongoingness

1. Surviving Matriarchal Dispossession

2. Doing Home-Work in the Motherland

3. Life-Affirming Practices

4. Living with/in Ecological Catastrophe

Epilogue: A Word about Black Puerto Rican Ecological Knowledge

Notes

References

Index

X.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295749419

0295749415

OCLC:

1246674727