{"product_id":"aftershocks-of-disaster-puerto-rico-before-and-after-the-storm-9781642591781","title":"Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe concept of \"aftershocks\" is used in the context of earthquakes to describe the jolts felt after the initial quake, but no disaster is a singular event. \u003cem\u003eAftershocks of Disaster\u003c\/em\u003e examines the lasting effects of hurricane Maria, not just the effects of the wind or the rain, but delving into what followed: state failure, social abandonment, capitalization on human misery, and the collective trauma produced by the botched response.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this gripping collection of essays, poems and photos,  \u003cem\u003eAftershocks of Disaster\u003c\/em\u003e captures both the roots of Puerto Rico's current crisis in its continuing colonial status and the determination of the island's people to persevere and forge a better future.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Juan González, author of \u003cem\u003eHarvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, \u003c\/em\u003eand co-host of \u003cem\u003eDemocracy Now!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Broad in scope, passionate, and urgent, Aftershocks is a necessary anthology of Puerto Ricans telling the story not just of Maria but of resistance to colonialism, austerity and disaster capitalism.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Molly Crabapple\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Hurricane Maria was a major disaster. It is also, potentially, a transformative event. The contributors to this powerful volume explain how big structural forces - climate change, colonialism, corruption, and capitalism - contributed to the devastation, but they also chart a radical path forward, towards a more just and sustainable world.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Eric Klinenberg, author of \u003cem\u003ePalaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“For those of us who were forced out of Puerto Rico and who watched the hurricane from outside, this book provides beautiful and painful clarity about how we got here and the struggles behind our survival.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Rossana Rodríguez Sánchez, Boricua Activist, artist and Chicago Council member\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e        \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eBonilla's\u003c\/em\u003e Non-Soveriegn Futures:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e        \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e        “\u003cem\u003eNon-Sovereign Futures\u003c\/em\u003e wonderfully fulfills the vision articulated by Trouillot of what a Caribbeanist anthropology can accomplish. What we get here is at once a rich and powerful documentation of a particular political movement and, through that documentation, a set of approaches to thinking about broad and global questions about politics, ideology, and practice.” —\u003cstrong\u003eLaurent Dubois, author of \u003cem\u003eHaiti\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e        “\u003cem\u003eNon-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment\u003c\/em\u003e marks a significant intervention into debates about Caribbean pasts in the present. Focusing its historical and ethnographic lens on the 2009 labor upheaval in Guadeloupe, the book explores with methodological verve and seminal insight the paradoxical tension between the desire to resist continued dependence on France, and the difficulty of articulating a vocabulary that might embody the collective demand for an alternative mode of political self-determination. In short, the book aims to put into question whether \u003cem\u003esovereignty\u003c\/em\u003e can continue to be imagined as the single normative good and ultimate value of modern political life.” —\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Scott, author of \u003cem\u003eOmens of Adversity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e        \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Lebron's \u003cem\u003ePolicing Life and Death\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e        \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e        \u003cp\u003e\"In this extraordinary book, Marisol LeBrón does a brilliant job helping us see the everyday activism and cultural inventiveness of Puerto Ricans figuring out how to respond to state repression and colonial capitalism. It’s a genuinely thrilling read.\"—Laura Briggs, author of \u003cem\u003eHow All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003ePolicing Life and Death\u003c\/em\u003e deftly illuminates the long historical presence of 'punitive governance' in Puerto Rico, demonstrating the depth to which gendered racist state violence defines the US colonial\/neocolonial relationship with the island and its people. This indispensable study not only focuses on the normalized, cross-generational violence generated by the policing and criminological regimes, but also pays rigorous attention to the ways Puerto Rican activists, artists, community leaders, and others respond to—and potentially transform—this punitive condition.\" —Dylan Rodriguez, author of \u003cem\u003eForced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the US Prison Regime\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e        \u003cp\u003e\"LeBrón's rigorously researched, trenchant examination into how everyday life is sectioned, monitored, and controlled is an essential read for understanding modern-day Puerto Rico and all communities and societies negotiating and defending themselves from the layered execution of power. \" —Zaire Dinzey-Flores, author of \u003cem\u003eLocked In, Locked Out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican Cit\u003c\/em\u003ey\u003c\/p\u003e        \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.Aftershocks of Maria --Introduction by Yarimar Bonilla\u003cbr\u003eII.Disaster and Imperial Capitalism –a dialogue between Naomi Klein and Yarimar Bonilla\u003cbr\u003eIII.Performing Maria–Interview with Teatro Rodante by Yarimar Bonilla\u003cbr\u003eIV.Narrating Maria\u003cbr\u003eV.Visualizing Maria\u003cbr\u003eVI.Capitalizing on Maria\u003cbr\u003eVII.Transforming Maria\u003cbr\u003eVIII.Afterword\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359874187607,"sku":"9781642591781","price":41.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aftershocks-of-disaster-puerto-rico-before-and-after-the-storm-9781642591781","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}