The Coloniality of Disaster: Race, Empire and Emergency in Puerto Rico, USA
The lecture is part of the Winter 2019 Michael Baptista Lecture and CALACS Conference Keynote. Professor Bonilla will examine how catastrophic events like hurricanes, earthquakes as well as forms of political and economic crisis, deepen the fault lines of long-existing racial and colonial histories. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted before and after Hurricane Maria, she […]
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