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Energy islands
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- Book 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 Onìs 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.
- About The Author
- Catalina M. de Onìs 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.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780520380622
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- University of California Press, (30 July 2021)
- Number of Pages
- 300
- Weight
- 408 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 23 mm
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