Catalina M de Onís
Biographic Data
| ID | 6487891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catalina M de Onís |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catalina M |
| FAMILY NAME | de Onís |
| SIGNATURE | DE ONIS C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4281-1739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Translating Spanish-Language Radio Programming as a Transborder Environmental Communication Praxis of Care
This essay argues for cultivating multilingual, transborder environmental communication praxis that conceptualizes and enacts care across lines of difference and amid shared struggles. This approach rejects English monolingualism and the devaluing of Spanish and other non-English languages. To begin, I describe several interconnected privileges and oppressions in Oregon’s Willamette Valley to provide an understanding of the high stakes for relati…
Visualizing green capitalist renewable energy
This article critiques industrial-scale solar energy development in Puerto Rico as a form of green capitalism that threatens the archipelago’s self-determination. Rather than uncritically embracing supposedly benign ‘green energy’ as necessary for advancing environmental, climate and energy justice, we argue that where, how and with whom this energy transformation takes place is crucial for calling attention to and challenging the continuance of …
“La justicia ambiental es para ti y para mí”
Rural, coastal communities in the Jobos Bay region of southeastern Puerto Rico confront disproportionate harms as an energy sacrifice zone. This space is constituted by imported fossil fuel dependency, economic and climate injustices, environmental racism, ecocide, US colonialism and imperialism, neoliberalism, and racial capitalism. In response, many grassroots actors mobilize against the toxic assault on their communities to push for alternativ…
Powering Life in Puerto Rico
After Hurricanes Irma and Maria barreled down on Puerto Rico in 2017, communities in the shadow of a behemoth coal-burning power plant on the island’s southern coast spent months without electricit
The ethics of embodied engagement
Ethnographic studies may be conducted by members of an environmental community or movement, as well as by those who identify as somehow "outside". They may be single-or multi-sited and last for various durations of time, ranging from a few hours to several years. They may involve a range of embodied participation practices, from interviewing to volunteering to working for an organization. This chapter summarizes ethical motivations and choices re…
What's in an “x”?
Catalina (Kathleen) M. de Onís, What's in an “x”?: An Exchange about the Politics of “Latinx”, Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, Vol. 1, No. 2, The Politics of Language (Spring 2017), pp. 78-91
Rethinking rhetorical field methods on a precarious planet
This essay offers a narrative of rhetorical field methods and intertwined climate justice exigencies. We argue the emergence of and resistance toward rhetorical field methods responds to a growing ecological consciousness, reflecting a changing understanding of the relationship between human agency and the planet. Drawing upon fieldwork from our own research and other scholars in the field, we organize our argument in three related themes: cultur…
Rethinking rhetorical field methods on a precarious planet
This essay offers a narrative of rhetorical field methods and intertwined climate justice exigencies. We argue the emergence of and resistance toward rhetorical field methods responds to a growing ecological consciousness, reflecting a changing understanding of the relationship between human agency and the planet. Drawing upon fieldwork from our own research and other scholars in the field, we organize our argument in three related themes: cultur…
The ethics of embodied engagement
Ethnographic studies may be conducted by members of an environmental community or movement, as well as by those who identify as somehow "outside". They may be single-or multi-sited and last for various durations of time, ranging from a few hours to several years. They may involve a range of embodied participation practices, from interviewing to volunteering to working for an organization. This chapter summarizes ethical motivations and choices re…
What's in an “x”?
Catalina (Kathleen) M. de Onís, What's in an “x”?: An Exchange about the Politics of “Latinx”, Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, Vol. 1, No. 2, The Politics of Language (Spring 2017), pp. 78-91
Rethinking rhetorical field methods on a precarious planet
This essay offers a narrative of rhetorical field methods and intertwined climate justice exigencies. We argue the emergence of and resistance toward rhetorical field methods responds to a growing ecological consciousness, reflecting a changing understanding of the relationship between human agency and the planet. Drawing upon fieldwork from our own research and other scholars in the field, we organize our argument in three related themes: cultur…
Powering Life in Puerto Rico
After Hurricanes Irma and Maria barreled down on Puerto Rico in 2017, communities in the shadow of a behemoth coal-burning power plant on the island’s southern coast spent months without electricit
“La justicia ambiental es para ti y para mí”
Rural, coastal communities in the Jobos Bay region of southeastern Puerto Rico confront disproportionate harms as an energy sacrifice zone. This space is constituted by imported fossil fuel dependency, economic and climate injustices, environmental racism, ecocide, US colonialism and imperialism, neoliberalism, and racial capitalism. In response, many grassroots actors mobilize against the toxic assault on their communities to push for alternativ…
Visualizing green capitalist renewable energy
This article critiques industrial-scale solar energy development in Puerto Rico as a form of green capitalism that threatens the archipelago’s self-determination. Rather than uncritically embracing supposedly benign ‘green energy’ as necessary for advancing environmental, climate and energy justice, we argue that where, how and with whom this energy transformation takes place is crucial for calling attention to and challenging the continuance of …
Translating Spanish-Language Radio Programming as a Transborder Environmental Communication Praxis of Care
This essay argues for cultivating multilingual, transborder environmental communication praxis that conceptualizes and enacts care across lines of difference and amid shared struggles. This approach rejects English monolingualism and the devaluing of Spanish and other non-English languages. To begin, I describe several interconnected privileges and oppressions in Oregon’s Willamette Valley to provide an understanding of the high stakes for relati…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Environmental justice (2 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)