Energy Islands : metaphors of power, extractivism, and justice in Puerto Rico /
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, Catalina M. de Onís challenges the master narratives of Puerto Rico as a tourist destination and site...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2021].
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| Series: | Environmental communication, power, and culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : amplifying Puerto Rican voices in power struggles
- Routes/Roots/Raíces I : recuerdos familiares/family memories
- Dis/empowering terms of an energy rhetorical matrix
- Routes/Roots/Raíces II : hydrocarbon hauntings
- Experimenting energies of defense, disease, development, and disaster
- Generating methane metaphors to fuel and fight extractivism
- Routes/Roots/Raíces III : accountaiblity in un Revolú
- (Re)wiring coalitions for radical transformations
- Routes/Roots/Raíces IV : "Paz Pa' Los reales"
- (No) Conclusion : delinking as energy justice
- Appendix : Puerto Rico and US diasporic organizations and initiatives.