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Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm - Softcover

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9781642590302: Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
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ISBN 10: 1642590304 ISBN 13: 9781642590302
Publisher: Haymarket Books, 2019

Synopsis

Two years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Ricans are still reeling from its effects and aftereffects. Aftershocks collects poems, essays and photos from survivors of Hurricane Maria detailing their determination to persevere. 

The 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. Aftershocks of Disaster 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.

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About the Author

Yarimar Bonilla is a political anthropologist specializing in questions of sovereignty, citizenship, and race across the Americas. She has tracked these issues across a broad range of sites and practices including: postcolonial politics in the French Caribbean, the role of digital protest in the Black Lives Matter movement, the politics of the Trump presidency, the Puerto Rican statehood movement, and her current research, for which she was named a 2018 Carnegie Fellow, on the political, economic, and social aftermath of hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

Marisol LeBrón is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching focus on social inequality, policing, violence, and protest. She is the author of Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico, which examines the growth of punitive governance in contemporary Puerto Rico.

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Publisher
Haymarket Books
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1642590304
ISBN 13 
9781642590302
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
384
Editor
Bonilla Yarimar, LeBrón Marisol
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  • 4.25 out of 5 stars
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