‘We are a people’: Sovereignty and disposability in the context of Puerto Rico's post-Hurricane Maria experience,The Geographical Journal

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‘We are a people’: Sovereignty and disposability in the context of Puerto Rico's post-Hurricane Maria experience
The Geographical Journal ( IF 3.6 ) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 , DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12472
Stacy‐ann Robinson ₁ , Andrea Vega Troncoso ₂ , J. Timmons Roberts ₃ , Matilda Weld Peck ₁

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The 2017 North Atlantic hurricane season brought many of the injustices faced by non-sovereign Caribbean States to the fore. These injustices, which positioned Caribbean people as expendable to colonial powers, highlighted the impact of historically enduring colonial structures of non-sovereignty on post-hurricane response and recovery efforts across the region. In this paper, we argue that Puerto Rico's status as a Commonwealth of the United States (U.S.) influenced the nature and outcome of the U.S. Federal Government's response to Hurricane Maria in 2017. Its response was marked by unnecessary delays, silence, and the withholding of information, and the prioritisation of bureaucracy, evidencing the disposability of Black and brown lives and bodies, and signalling the need to collectively leverage the power of an environmental justice agenda. For this to be achieved, we further argue, a people's right to sovereignty and indispensability must be centred.

中文翻译：

“我们是一个民族”：波多黎各飓风玛丽亚经历背景下的主权和可处置性

2017 年北大西洋飓风季节使加勒比非主权国家面临的许多不公正问题凸显出来。这些不公正现象使加勒比人民成为殖民列强的牺牲品，凸显了历史上持久的非主权殖民结构对该地区飓风后应对和恢复工作的影响。在本文中，我们认为，波多黎各作为美利坚合众国 (US) 的地位影响了美国联邦政府对 2017 年飓风玛丽亚的反应的性质和结果。其反应的特点是不必要的拖延、沉默和拒绝。信息的丰富性和官僚机构的优先顺序，证明了黑人和棕色人种生命和身体的可处置性，并表明需要集体利用环境正义议程的力量。我们进一步认为，要实现这一目标，必须以人民的主权和不可或缺的权利为中心。

更新日期：2022-08-02

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