A5049555693- Latin American and Latino Studies
- Cuban History and Society
- Caribbean history, culture, and politics
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- Communism, Protests, Social Movements
- Indigenous Cultures and History
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Disaster Response and Management
- Water Resource Management and Quality
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Politics and Society in Latin America
- Public Health Policies and Education
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Asian American and Pacific Histories
Kalamazoo College
2012-2020
University of California, Berkeley
2020
Columbia University
2009-2017
Puerto Rico is experiencing a public health crisis driven by effects and processes of US colonialism in the archipelago, such as exclusionary application federal policy, an exodus care professionals, long-term unequal distribution funding unincorporated territories. Compound multiple disasters, including Hurricane María, repeated earthquakes, COVID-19 pandemic, well relentless privatization fragmentation system, have led to very poor outcomes. Rico's case clearly shows negative on health....
This essay is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out from December 2017 to August 2019.In it, I reframe the condition of disaster that Puerto Rico faced after Hurricane Maria through a consideration political economy post-hurricane crisis.I consider ways has become highly active extractive zone periphery US empire and role in these transformations, including terms politics knowledge production.I investigate notion auto-gestión for it acts as both mode survival within permanent crisis,...
Over the course of 16 months, more than 35400 cases Zika virus infection have been confirmed in Puerto Rico. This represents 85% all reported USA and its territories. The epidemic is exposing profound failure socioeconomic policies, as well to protect sexual reproductive health rights Considering high poverty rates, levels sexuality-related stigma, poor quality sex education, limited access contraception, participation allocation resources for prevention, it unreasonable focus public efforts...
This essay addresses the epistemic limits of crisis as a trope for thinking about future Puerto Rico in context fiscal austerity programs and combined effects multiple disasters. Small-scale agriculture mutual aid offer models resistance to US colonialism underlying power structure reinforcing debt political subservience. What can be perceived or accomplished outside self-perpetuating frame crisis? sketches contours different approach, one that considers what Ricans owe each other well...
Puerto Rico was hit by a category 4 hurricane that severely damaged power, water, and communications systems on the 20th of September 2017. Based 56 qualitative interviews, this article documents how health care workers created new ethics after Hurricane Maria engaged in novel forms activism to both repair past damage imagine different future. Many doctors, nurses, other professionals went work storm treating patients, fixing their workplaces, resolving logistical problems. Health responded...