The coloniality of disaster: Race,empire, and the temporal logics of emergency in Puerto Rico,USA |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Geography, University of Delaware, United States;2. Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada;3. Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Ecuador), Critical Geography Collective of Ecuador, Ecuador;4. Department of Geography, University of Washington, United States;5. Maynooth University, Ireland;1. School of Geography, The University of Melbourne, 221 Bouverie St, Carlton, VIC 3010, Australia |
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Abstract: | This essay uses the case of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico to discuss “the coloniality of disaster”: how catastrophic events like hurricanes, earthquakes, but also other forms political and economic crisis deepen the fault lines of long-existing racial and colonial histories. It argues that disaster capitalism needs to be understood as a form of racio-colonial capitalism and that this in turn requires us to question our understandings of both “resilience” and “recovery.” The article focuses on the “wait of disaster” as a temporal logic of state subjugation and on how Puerto Ricans responded to state abandonment through modes of autogestión, or autonomous organizing. It concludes that while resiliency can be coopted in service of a neoliberal recovery, it can also be the site for gestating new forms of sovereignty and new visions of postcolonial recovery. |
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Keywords: | Disaster Emergency Race Coloniality Resilience Capitalism Puerto Rico Caribbean |
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