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

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

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Author / Creator:	Lloréns, Hilda, author.
Imprint:	Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2021.
Description:	xi, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Decolonizing feminisms Decolonizing feminisms.
Subject:	Women -- Puerto Rico -- Social conditions. African Americans -- Puerto Rico. Ecofeminism -- Puerto Rico -- History. African Americans. Ecofeminism. Women -- Social conditions. Puerto Rico. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12663170

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ISBN:	9780295749396 0295749393 9780295749402 0295749407 9780295749419
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-200) and index.
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"--
Other form:	Online version: Lloréns, Hilda. Making livable worlds Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2021 9780295749419

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