Energy Islands
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Energy Islands

Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico

Catalina M de Onís

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Energy Islands

Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico

Catalina M de Onís

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About This Book

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.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780520380639
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Environmental Science
Index
Biological Sciences

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    Citation styles for Energy Islands

    APA 6 Citation

    Onís, C. (2021). Energy Islands (1st ed.). University of California Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/2598742/energy-islands-pdf (Original work published 2021)

    Chicago Citation

    Onís, Catalina. (2021) 2021. Energy Islands. 1st ed. University of California Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/2598742/energy-islands-pdf.

    Harvard Citation

    Onís, C. (2021) Energy Islands. 1st edn. University of California Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/2598742/energy-islands-pdf (Accessed: 25 September 2021).

    MLA 7 Citation

    Onís, Catalina. Energy Islands. 1st ed. University of California Press, 2021. Web. 25 Sept. 2021.