Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture #01: Energy Islands

Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico

Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture #01: Energy Islands
Catalina M de Onis
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15 Jun 2021 US
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9780520380622
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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 Onis 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.

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Catalina M. de Onis 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, climatica y energetica como trasfondo del verano de Revolucion Boricua 2019.
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ISBN-13: 9780520380622
Published: 15 Jun 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 408g
Pages: 300

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