Infrastructure and Colonial Difference in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María
2018; Wiley; Volume: 26; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/traa.12129
ISSN1548-7466
Autores Tópico(s)Urban Planning and Governance
ResumoTransforming AnthropologyVolume 26, Issue 2 p. 102-117 Original Article Infrastructure and Colonial Difference in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María Rosa E. Ficek, Rosa E. Ficek rosa.ficek@upr.edu Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, Cayey, PR, 00737-2230Search for more papers by this author Rosa E. Ficek, Rosa E. Ficek rosa.ficek@upr.edu Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, Cayey, PR, 00737-2230Search for more papers by this author First published: 24 September 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12129Citations: 15Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract Hurricane María wiped out the infrastructures that helped sustain modern life in Puerto Rico. As communities, organizations, and the government responded to the disaster, the politics of infrastructure took on a central and urgent role in debates about colonialism, debt, life, and death. This paper describes everyday life in the days and weeks that followed María, focusing on the strategies people used to obtain essential services such as power and water. People mobilized family and community networks, along with material objects including buckets and gas tanks, into improvised infrastructures that compensated, however inadequately, for what was destroyed. This article considers how state and corporate forms of governance shape day to day survival through people's entanglements with these emergency infrastructures. It argues that the experience of obtaining food, water, power, and other necessities in the aftermath of María revealed, in an embodied way, the racialization of Puerto Ricans as colonial subjects. Citing Literature Volume26, Issue2October 2018Pages 102-117 RelatedInformation
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