CENTRO Journal vol. XXXV, no. 1, Spring 2023

CENTRO Journal | Spring 2023 | Volume 35 | Number 1

SPECIAL ISSUE. Centering Environmental, Ecological, Climate, and Energy Justice in Puerto Rico’s Social Justice Praxis

Editores invitados / Guest Editors: Hilda Lloréns, Carlos G. García-Quijano, Catalina de Onís, and Ruth Santiago

ENSAYOS / ESSAYS

Introduction

Centering Environmental, Ecological, Climate, and Energy Justice in Puerto Rico’s Social Justice Praxis 

Hilda Lloréns, Carlos G. García-Quijano, Catalina de Onís, and Ruth Santiago

De la protesta a la propuesta: Articulations between Environmental Justice Movements and Community-based Management of Protected Areas in Puerto Rico

Alejandro Torres-Abreu, Gustavo A. García-López, and Carmen Milagros Concepción

Historicizing Puerto Rico’s Energy Present: A Political Ecology and Environmental Justice Approach to Energy Production in Puerto Rico

Anaís Delilah Roque Antonetty 

Grassroots Energy Emancipation through Solar Energy Projects: Narratives from Jayuya, Puerto Rico

Yíamar Rivera Matos

Accessing Environmental Justice in Puerto Rico through the Inter-American System of Human Rights: Are We There Yet?

Verónica González Rodríguez and Annette Martínez-Orabona

Puerto Rican Visual Arts in the Era of Superstorms: An Ecocritical and Decolonial Analysis of the Work of Frances Gallardo and Lionel Cruet

Bettina Pérez Martínez

Boricuir Trans-territorial Ecologies: Archipelagic Cimarronaje and Hemispheric Resurgence in Abya Yala

Ana-Maurine Lara, Alaí Reyes-Santos, RaheNi González Inaru, Myrna Cabán Lezcano, Toi Scott, and Sally Ortiz Castro

RESEÑAS DE LIBROS / BOOK REVIEWS

The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico, by Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo

Reviewed by José A. Laguarta Ramírez

Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art, by Marisel C. Moreno

Reviewed by Jossianna Arroyo

4645, by Christopher Powers Guimond; Against Muerto Rico: Lessons from the Verano Boricua/

Contra Muerto Rico: Lecciones del Verano Boricua, by Marisol LeBrón; Poéticas de la devastación y la insurgencia: María y el Verano del 19, by Malena Rodríguez Castro

Reviewed by Guillermo Rebollo-Gil

The Caribbean Front in World War II: The Untold Story of U-Boats, Spies, and Economic Warfare, by José Bolívar Fresneda

Reviewed by Micah Wright