Reflections on disaster colonialism: Response to Yarimar Bonilla's ‘The wait of disaster’

After Maria, “el desastre es la colonia” became a popular hashtag in social media and was observed in graffiti and art in different parts of the country, and abroad. Yarimar Bonilla's paper continues emerging conversations amongst scholars and activists on how the colonial matrix of power is li...

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Published in:Political geography 2020-04, Vol.78, p.102170, Article 102170
Main Author: García López, Gustavo A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Autogestion
Capitalism
Climate colonialism
Colonialism
Decoloniality
Decolonization
Disaster capitalism
Disasters
Graffiti
Necropolitics
Puerto Rico
Social media
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Summary:After Maria, “el desastre es la colonia” became a popular hashtag in social media and was observed in graffiti and art in different parts of the country, and abroad. Yarimar Bonilla's paper continues emerging conversations amongst scholars and activists on how the colonial matrix of power is linked to the social production of disasters, and indeed, is itself a disaster. Engaging with these conversations, in this commentary I want to highlight six aspects that I consider central to a coloniality of disasters research project: necropolis and permanent war and exception; development as biocidal disaster; differential colonial vulnerabilities; climate colonialism and debt; disaster capitalism; and decolonial disaster subjectivities.
ISSN:0962-6298
1873-5096
DOI:10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102170