Review of Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice by Hilda Lloréns (University of Washington Press)

Donna Elizabeth Hayles
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This review examines Hilda Lloréns’s research into the role that Afro-Puerto Rican women play in advocating for environmental justice and building a sustainable environment in the Puerto Rican archipelago, particularly after the devastation left behind by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, and the subsequent catastrophic effects of COVID-19 in 2020. Lloréns shows that Afro-Puerto Rican women are able to survive in the face of racial and ecological discriminations and marginalizations, and their survival is emblematic of Puerto Rico’s own survival. The author devotes the entirety of her book to show that as an "ethnographer of home," as she calls herself, it is essential for people to create livable worlds within which they can survive. Survival in the midst of catastrophic climate change is difficult, Lloréns argues, primarily because Puerto Ricans are often on the receiving end of austerity measures that make their existence tenuous, at best. These austerity measures typically come after a climatic event, and result in limited access to clean water, food, electricity, healthcare, housing, and education, which only serve to exacerbate the desperation that many on the island feel. While this desperation was widespread across the island after the hurricanes in 2017, residents in the southeastern region of the island (predominantly Afro-Puerto Ricans) were even more affected. Lloréns shows how these people used their limited resources to cull an existence out of a seemingly hostile land and create a community that sustained them. Lloréns draws on personal experiences, the experiences of her family, ethnography, anthropology, and interviews to show how vital it is to examine Puerto Rico not as a homogenous space but rather as a heterogeneous one with its unique complexities. And by centering the work and experiences of Black Puerto Ricans, Lloréns gives voice to a group that is largely left on the margins of society, but who demonstrates the importance of building community as a sustaining entity.
《创造宜居世界:非裔波多黎各妇女建设环境正义》一书书评,希尔达·洛尔萨姆斯著(华盛顿大学出版社)
本综述审查了希尔达·罗尔梅斯关于非裔波多黎各妇女在波多黎各群岛倡导环境正义和建设可持续环境方面发挥作用的研究,特别是在2017年飓风“伊尔玛”和“玛丽亚”造成破坏以及随后在2020年2019冠状病毒病造成灾难性影响之后。llorsamans表明,非裔波多黎各妇女能够在种族和生态歧视和边缘化面前生存下来,她们的生存象征着波多黎各自身的生存。作者用整本书来表明,作为一个“家园的人种学家”,她称自己为“家园的人种学家”,人们必须创造一个可以生存的宜居世界。在灾难性的气候变化中生存是困难的,llorsamans认为,主要是因为波多黎各人经常处于紧缩措施的接收端,这使他们的生存充其量是脆弱的。这些紧缩措施通常发生在气候事件之后,导致获得清洁水、食物、电力、医疗保健、住房和教育的机会有限,这只会加剧岛上许多人的绝望情绪。尽管2017年飓风过后,这种绝望情绪在全岛普遍存在,但该岛东南部地区的居民(主要是非洲裔波多黎各人)受到的影响更大。《洛尔萨姆斯》展示了这些人如何利用他们有限的资源,在一片看似充满敌意的土地上生存下来,并建立了一个维持他们生存的社区。llorsamens以个人经历、家庭经历、民族志、人类学和访谈为依据,说明检视波多黎各的重要性,不是将其视为同质空间,而是将其视为具有独特复杂性的异质空间。通过以波多黎各黑人的工作和经历为中心,llorsamens为一个在很大程度上处于社会边缘的群体发出了声音,但他们证明了建立社区作为一个可持续实体的重要性。
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 医学-临床神经学
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