Beyond Disaster - Melissa L Rosario

Beyond Disaster

Building Collective Futures in Puerto Rico
Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2025
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4673-0 (ISBN)
37,35 inkl. MwSt
An alternative view of Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future. How do we map the pathways to liberation where we have been taught to see only trauma, suffering, and lack? Rosario offers an alternative view of Puerto Rico, America’s oldest colony, removing readers from the framework of crisis to consider the deeper legacies of its current impasse.
An alternative view of Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future How do we map the pathways to liberation where we have been taught to see only trauma, suffering, and lack? Melissa L. Rosario offers an alternative view of Puerto Rico, America’s oldest colony, removing readers from the framework of crisis to consider the deeper legacies of its current impasse. Beyond Disaster: Building Collective Futures in Puerto Rico is an intimate portrait, weaving insights from the author’s own life, research, and organizing work as a scholar in the diaspora who rematriated. Rosario bridges the genres of social history and memoir to unsettle the meaning of resistance and freedom, underscoring the deep wounds of colonialism while still uplifting the profound possibilities of embodied alternatives.

Beyond Disaster critiques the framework of debt and crisis by examining the psychological, emotional, and spiritual effects of colonialism. Rosario highlights key examples of organizing efforts to defend land and education against total enclosure, protecting life amid loss. This book offers a series of microhistories, vignettes, and prose poetry to foreground the daily practices necessary to anchor the ecological and political landscapes of our collective future.

Melissa L. Rosario holds a PhD in cultural anthropology and Latinx studies. She is the founder of the Center for Embodied Pedagogy and Action in Puerto Rico.

Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Heart Space

Introduction: Another Country

Part I: Debts: A Metaphysics of Colonialism

1. Shouldering the Crisis
2. School Closures and Student Strikes
3. Displacement and Land Privatization

Part II: Truth Wealth: Pathways toward Liberation

4. Comedores Sociales: Feeding Mutual Aid
5. Patio Taller: Crafting Afro-Diasporic Possibilities
6. La Colmena Cimarrona: Maroon Farming
7. El Hormiguero: An Okupa in Santurce
8. El Llamado: Sustaining Movements over the Long Haul
9. Retoyando Futuros Ancestrales: CEPA’s Healing Justice Practice

Conclusion: Embodying Freedom, a Praisesong

Coda: Sovereignty and Co-liberation in Times of Climate Justice
Appendix: Privileges and Responsibilities for Islanders and Diaspora Puerto Ricans
Notes
Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.2.2025
Reihe/Serie Critical Insurgencies
Verlagsort Evanston
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 0-8101-4673-8 / 0810146738
ISBN-13 978-0-8101-4673-0 / 9780810146730
Zustand Neuware
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