Aftershocks of disaster : Puerto Rico before and after the storm

Aftershocks of disaster : Puerto Rico before and after the storm / Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bonilla, Yarimar (Editor), LeBrón, Marisol (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2019.
Series:Ebsco e-book purchased.
Subjects:
Hurricanes > Puerto Rico.
Hurricane Maria, 2017.
Hurricane damage > Puerto Rico.
Disaster relief > Puerto Rico.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Puerto Rico > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Openings
  • The trauma doctrine / a conversation between Yarimar Bonilla and Naomi Klein
  • ¡Ay María! / Mariana Carbonell, et al.
  • Part II. Narrating the trauma
  • WAPA radio: voices amid the silence and desperation / Dandra D., Rodríguez Cotto
  • María's death toll: on the crucial role of Puerto Rico's investigative journalists / Carla Minet
  • (note for a friend who wants to commit suicide after the hurricane) / Raquel Salas Rivera
  • "I'm quite comfortable": abandonment and resignation after María / Benjamín Torres Gotay
  • Narrating the unnameable / Eduardo Lalo
  • If a tree falls in an island: the metaphysics of colonialism / Ana Portnoy Brimmer
  • this was meant to be a hurricane diary / Beatriz Llenín Figueroa
  • Another haphazard gesture / Sofía Gallisá Muriente
  • Part III. Representing the disaster
  • Our fellow Americans: why calling Puerto Ricans "Americas" will not save them / Frances Negrón-Muntaner
  • US media depictions of climate migrants: the recent case of the Puerto Rican "exodus" / Hilda Lloréns
  • Accountability and representation: photographic coverage after the disaster / Erika P. Rodríguez
  • Lifting the veil: portraiture as a tool for bilateral representation / Christopher Gregory
  • The importance of politically engaged artistic and curatorial practices in the aftermath of hurricane María / Marianne Ramírez-Aponte
  • Si no pudiera hacer arte, me iba: The aesthetics of disaster as catharsis in contemporary Puerto Rican art / Carlos Rivera Santana
  • Art and a threshold called dignity / TIAGO (Richard Santiago)
  • Picking up the pieces / Adrian Roman
  • Part IV. Capitalizing on the crisis
  • sinvergüenza sin nación/sinvergüenza with no nation / Raquel Salas Rivera
  • Puerto Rico's unjust debt / Ed Morales
  • Puerto Rico's debt is odious / Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan
  • Dismantling public education in Puerto Rico / Rima Brusi and Isar Godreau
  • Puerto Rico's fight for a citizen debt audit: a strategy for public mobilization and a fair reconstruction / Eva L. Prados-Rodríguez
  • Rhizomatic / Ana Portnoy Brimmer
  • Part V. Transforming Puerto Rico
  • Looking for a way forward in the past: lessons from the Puerto Rican Natinoaist Party Mónica Jiménez
  • Psychoanalysis as a political act after María / Patricia Noboa Ortega
  • Authenticating loss and contesting recovery: REMA and the politics of colonial disaster management / Sarh Molinari
  • the energy uprising: a community driven search for sustainability and sovereignty in Puerto Rico / Arturo Massol-Deyá
  • Community kitchens: an emerging movement? / Giovanni Roberto
  • Building accountability and secure futures: an interview with Mari Mari Narváez / Marisol LeBrón
  • Afterword: critique and decoloniality in the face of crisis, disaster, and catastrophe / Nelson Maldonado-Torres.

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