The Podcast for Social Research, Ep. 27: Unnatural Disaster: Puerto Rico One Year after Hurricane Maria

In the twenty-seventh episode of the Podcast for Social Research, BISR faculty Adriana Garriga-Lopez, Ajay Singh Chaudhary, and Alyssa Battistoni attempt to untangle the interlocking forces that rendered Puerto Rico fatally vulnerable to the double punch of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. One year later, Puerto Rico remains a site of social and ecological catastrophe, an “unnatural” disaster of infrastructural decay, economic austerity, and political subjugation. What, in theory and practice, is Puerto Rico’s relation to the United States? What impact has colonization, neoliberalization, and financialization had on Puerto Rico’s social, economic, and political condition? What is the state of the island 11 months after landfall? How do ordinary Puerto Ricans cope, and what can be done?

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The Podcast for Social Research, Ep. 27: Unnatural Disaster: Puerto Rico One Year after Hurricane Maria
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