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Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice
Contributor(s): Lloréns, Hilda (Author)
ISBN: 0295749393     ISBN-13: 9780295749396
Publisher: University of Washington Press
OUR PRICE:   $103.95  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Social Science | Black Studies (global)
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Dewey: 305.409
LCCN: 2021010742
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.09 lbs) 224 pages
 
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When Hurricanes Irma and María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, their destructive force further devastated an archipelago already pommeled by economic austerity, political upheaval, and environmental calamities. To navigate these ongoing multiple crises, Afro-Puerto Rican women have drawn from their cultural knowledge to engage in daily improvisations that enable their communities to survive and thrive. Their life-affirming practices, developed and passed down through generations, offer powerful modes of resistance to gendered and racialized exploitation, ecological ruination, and deepening capitalist extraction. Through solidarity, reciprocity, and an ethics of care, these women create restorative alternatives to dispossession to produce good, meaningful lives for their communities.

Making Livable Worlds weaves together autobiography, ethnography, interviews, memories, and fieldwork to recast narratives that continuously erase Black Puerto Rican women as agents of social change. In doing so, Lloréns serves as an "ethnographer of home" as she brings to life the powerful histories and testimonies of a marginalized, disavowed community that has been treated as disposable.