{"product_id":"beyond-disaster-building-collective-futures-in-puerto-rico-hardback-9780810146747","title":"Beyond Disaster; Building Collective Futures in Puerto Rico (Hardback) 9780810146747","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBeyond Disaster\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBuilding Collective Futures in Puerto Rico\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMelissa L Rosario (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810146747\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 February 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Viscerally and analytically compelling, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Disaster \u003c\/i\u003eis as committed to content as it is to surrendering to form. Melissa Rosario takes on the indomitable task of decolonizing and reinventing studies of Puerto Rico by writing freely and courageously to name and recognize emotions and to practice gestures of care that will not reduce this writing simply to text. She boldly and rightfully asks us to think beyond conventional readings and understandings of crisis, debt, and violence and confront the metaphysics of colonialism.”—Gina Athena Ulysse, author of \u003ci\u003eWhy Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-Quake Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBeyond Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e merges academic, ethnographic and journalistic approaches while staying attuned to cultivating afro-indigenous queer connections to land, grounded in embodied, spiritual commitment to social change in times of global climate crisis. This sense of urgency is met here with a contagious strategic optimism, stitched together with so much heart.\" —Maritza Stanchich, University of Puerto Rico-RÍo Piedras\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn alternative view of Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eBeyond Disaster: Building Collective Futures in Puerto Rico\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: The Heart Space\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Another Country\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Debts: A Metaphysics of Colonialism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Shouldering the Crisis\u003cbr\u003e 2. School Closures and Student Strikes\u003cbr\u003e 3. Displacement and Land Privatization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Truth Wealth: Pathways toward Liberation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. \u003ci\u003eComedores Sociales\u003c\/i\u003e: Feeding Mutual Aid\u003cbr\u003e 5. \u003ci\u003ePatio Taller\u003c\/i\u003e: Crafting Afro-Diasporic Possibilities\u003cbr\u003e 6. \u003ci\u003eLa Colmena Cimarrona\u003c\/i\u003e: Maroon Farming\u003cbr\u003e 7. \u003ci\u003eEl Hormiguero\u003c\/i\u003e: An Okupa in Santurce\u003cbr\u003e 8. \u003ci\u003eEl Llamado\u003c\/i\u003e: Sustaining Movements over the Long Haul\u003cbr\u003e 9. \u003ci\u003eRetoyando Futuros Ancestrales\u003c\/i\u003e: CEPA’\u003cbr\u003es Healing Justice Practice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Embodying Freedom, a Praisesong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Sovereignty and Co-liberation in Times of Climate Justice\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Privileges and Responsibilities for Islanders and Diaspora Puerto Ricans\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555667505432,"sku":"9780810146747","price":66.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/beyond-disaster-building-collective-futures-in-puerto-rico-hardback-9780810146747","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}