What is it about?
This essay deals with the connections between colonialism and climate disasters with reflections drawn from the Caribbean islands of Puerto Rico. It was written in conversation with a plenary talk by Yarimar Bonilla at the 2019 conference of the American Association of Geographers (AAG).
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Why is it important?
Identifies the mechanisms through which colonialism 'produces' disasters, that is, how colonialism has been a disaster and contributed to deepening climate-related disasters in Puerto Rico.
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This page is a summary of: Reflections on disaster colonialism: Response to Yarimar Bonilla's ‘The wait of disaster’, Political Geography, April 2020, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102170.
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