Overview

"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 Onís 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."

Full Product Details

Author:   Catalina M de Onís
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780520380615

ISBN 10:   0520380614
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   15 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

"List of Figures Acknowledgments Abbreviations  Map of Puerto Rico Introduction: Amplifying Puerto Rican Voices in Power Struggles Part One: Forming Energies Routes/Roots/Raíces I: Recuerdos familiares [Family Memories] Chapter One: Dis/empowering Terms of an Energy Rhetorical Matrix Routes/Roots/Raíces II: Hydrocarbon Hauntings Chapter Two: Experimenting Energies of Defense, Disease, Development, and Disaster Part Two: Powering the Present and Future Chapter Three: Generating Methane Metaphors to Fuel and Fight Extractivism Routes/Roots/Raíces III: Account-ability in un revolú Chapter Four: (Re)wiring Coalitions for Radical Transformations Routes/Roots/Raíces IV: ""Las cosas del barrio"" (No) Conclusion: Delinking for Energy Justice Appendix: Puerto Rico and US Diasporic Organizations and Initiatives Notes References Index"

Reviews

"""Overall, Energy Islands is a unique and timely work that makes contributions to a number of interdisciplinary fields and topics, including communication studies, Latinx studies, environmentalism, social justice, and de/coloniality studies.""   * Rhetoric Review *"

Author Information

"Catalina M. de Onís 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."

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