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Interview Highlights
1:11 - Introduction and overview by Dr. Rivera
4:45 - Environmental colonialism and the history of environmental justice movements in Puerto Rico as written about by Carmen Concepci贸n.
9:22 - Family knowledge and memory of repeated disasters in Puerto Rico: Dr. Rivera shares a story about her grandfather鈥檚 experience with multiple hurricanes in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and the way it prompted migration and the expansion of the Puerto Rican diaspora.
11:25 - JW asks question about disaster colonialism, and the way that ongoing colonialism operates through disasters in Puerto Rico.
11:45 - DR explains disaster colonialism as a concept, along with a critique of Klein鈥檚 鈥渄isaster capitalism,鈥 which has often been used at the expense of understanding the history of colonization and coloniality in the archipelago.
15:52 - DR discusses procedural vulnerability to disaster and the need to understand it and the entrenchment of inequality from repeated poor responses to disasters.
19:08 - JW asks about attempts to measure vulnerability to disasters, and the application of such measures in the context of Puerto Rico.
19:55 - DR responds about vulnerability indices in Puerto Rico, and the indicators that do not make sense in the Puerto Rican context.
21:44 - JW asks about how existing policies and institutions for disaster response can reinforce the idea of who is a 鈥渨orthy recipient of aid鈥 after a disaster.
22:55 - DR discusses indigeneity in Puerto Rico, and the history of discrimination and erasure of Taino peoples, explaining how that shows up in expressions and understandings of race and ethnicity in Puerto Rico today.
25:10 - JW asks about the history of suppression of Indigenous knowledge about weather tracking in Puerto Rico under Spanish colonization.
26:15 - DR discusses the Spanish criminalization of Taino peoples鈥 abilities to anticipate and forecast hurricanes.
30:30 - DR closes on a hopeful note about the role of artists and designers in imagining alternative environmental futures.
Dr. Danielle Zoe Rivera is an urban designer and urban planner. Her research engages issues of urban informality and decolonization through both design and policy. These professional and theoretical inquiries frequently draw her to study community organizing, environmental justice, and social movements.
Rivera鈥檚 current research examines urban informality in low-income Latino/a communities, primarily Mexican-American and Puerto Rican communities. At ENVD, she teaches courses on physical planning, community engagement, social equity, and urban design & planning theories.
Rivera holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from the University of Michigan, a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Pennsylvania State University.
Jocelyn West
Jocelyn West is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录 and a graduate research assistant at the Natural Hazards Center. Her research interests include social vulnerability to disasters and climate change as well as community engagement in disaster risk reduction. Her current research focuses on landslide risk communication in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Mar铆a. West's professional experience spans international development and geological science. West has previously worked to improve risk communication with the World Bank, conducted earthquake research in Nepal, and participated in disaster response in Texas and Puerto Rico. She has worked internationally in Singapore, Indonesia, Dominica, and Peru. West holds a degree in geological science and education policy from Brown University.