Hilda Lloréns
Biographic Data
| ID | 82836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilda Lloréns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilda |
| FAMILY NAME | Lloréns |
| SIGNATURE | LLORÉNS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rhode Island |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9783-2748 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Coastal Forest Fisheries, Estuarine Livelihoods, and Human Well-being in Southern Puerto Rico
Water Sharing as Disaster Response: Coping With Water Insecurity After Hurricane MarÍa
In 2017, Hurricane María left more than a third of Puerto Rican households without water services. Cascading failures—including the simultaneous collapse of water, electricity, and transportation sectors—presented serious challenges to the timely restoration of governmental services. In response, families across Puerto Rico adopted self-organized coping strategies to obtain the basic resources they needed, including safe and sufficient water. Dra…
Visualizing green capitalist renewable energy: Development and grassroots solar community alternatives in Puerto Rico
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 …
A Passion for the Sea: Human-Sea Interactions in Contemporary Caribbean Art
This article reports on some of the ways in which the Caribbean contemporary artists Tony Capellán, Christopher Cozier, Scherezade Garcia, El Colectivo Shampoo, Jorge Zeno, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, and Nadia Huggins deploy the semiotically rich imagery of the sea to comment on some of today’s most pressing social concerns. The success of their artwork is the result of the fact that in visualizing local realities, they increasingl…
Toxic Racism in Puerto Rico’s Sacrifice Zone: In Jobos Bay, Afro-Puerto Rican communities living in the shadow of two polluting power plants fight for the right to a safe environment
The gentle descent from Puerto Rico’s central mountains into the southern coastal plain offers a spectacular seaside vista. It is a panoramic view of a seemingly vast Caribbean Sea in varying hues
Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice
Winner of the 2022 Frank Bonilla Book Award, sponsored by the Puerto Rican Studies Association Winner of the 2022 Gregory Bateson Book Prize, sponsored by the Society for Cultural Anthropology Brings to life Afro-Puerto Rican women’s creative struggles for environmental justice When Hurricanes Irma and María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, their destructive force further devastated an archipelago already pummeled by economic auste…
Powering Life in Puerto Rico: The struggle to transform Puerto rico’s flawed energy grid with locally controlled alternatives is a matter of life and death
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
Water is life, but the colony is a necropolis: Environmental terrains of struggle in Puerto Rico
The catastrophic conditions after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, homeland to the second largest US Latinx group, also result from a long history of colonial exploitation exacerbated by economic downturn, debt crisis, and federally imposed austerity. US policies affecting agriculture and attracting contaminating industries set the groundwork for extreme environmental degradation, which in turn has long motivated local community activism, coalitio…
Black Latina Womanhood: From Latinx Fragility to Empowerment and Social Justice Praxis
Black Latina Womanhood: From Latinx Fragility to Empowerment and Social Justice Praxis Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores (bio), Hilda Lloréns (bio), Nancy López (bio), Maritza Quiñones (bio), and on behalf of Black Latinas Know Collective On April 29, 2019, the Black Latinas Know Collective (BLKC) published its website and statement (Black Latinas Know Collective 2019). The BLKC Statement, shared below, reflects our thinking as Black Latina scholars in t…
Ruin Nation: In Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria laid bare the results of a long-term crisis created by dispossession, migration, and economic predation
In communities and towns left moribund by the death of the sugar industry in Puerto Rico, land sits fallow, and industrial complexes from earlier eras have been left to rot. Overgrown vegetation an
Women Lead Puerto Rico’s Recovery: In Puerto Rico’s southeast, women are at the forefront of the struggle against environmental degradation and catastrophe
“After the hurricane the community worked many, many hours clearing roads and helping each other. There is still so much left to do ... I am just thankful we are alive.” –Isme Figueroa, president of
Imaging Disaster: Puerto Rico through the Eye of Hurricane María
During Hurricane María, individuals throughout the Caribbean uploaded video and photographs to social media, but as winds downed communication towers and electric lines, sharing stopped. Still, satellites orbiting high above Earth transmitted views of the massive hurricane. In the following weeks, the media bombarded viewers with scenes of devastated landscapes, people wading through waist-deep water, infrastructure shredded beyond recognition, a…
Beyondblanqueamiento: Black affirmation in contemporary Puerto Rico
If, according to turn-of-the-twentieth-century observers, black Puerto Ricans were destined to become racially white in a few generations, how did 12.4 per cent of the population manage to remain black in 2010? And how did they survive in the face of both national and everyday forms of racism? How is the persistence and even increase in black identity in Puerto Rico supported? This article argues that there is a covert and largely unexplored soci…
Imaging the Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race, and Gender during the American Century
In Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American Century, Hilda Lloréns offers a ground-breaking study of images—photographs, postcards, paintings, posters, and films—about Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans made by American and Puerto Rican image-makers between 1890 and 1990. Through illuminating discussions of artists, images, and social events, the book offers a critical analysis of the power-laden cultu…
Latina bodies in the era of elective aesthetic surgery
Pulling Up Myths from the Root: ’ Designing and Implementing an Anti-Racist Curriculum About the African Heritage for Third Graders in Puerto Rico
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Isar Godreau, Hilda Llórens; 'Pulling Up Myths from the Root:' Designing and Implementing an Anti-Racist Curriculum About the African Heritage for Third Graders in Puerto Rico. Practicing Anthropology 1 January 2010; 32 (1): 26–31. doi: …
Colonial Incongruence at Work: Employing US Census Racial Categories in Puerto Rico
Sculpting Blackness: Representations of Black‐Puerto Ricans in Public Art
This article examines how race is represented in public art‐works sponsored by the State in contemporary Puerto Rico. We focus mainly on two sculptures that commemorate Puerto Rico's black heritage, the sculptural triad entitled “Ritmo” (2006), and the sculpture titled “Osaín” (2007), both located in the town of Caguas. We argue that blackness in Puerto Rican art‐works is rendered passive, foreign, and primitive. Nevertheless, while creating folk…
Dislocated Geographies
Research Article| February 01 2006 Dislocated Geographies: A Story of Border Crossings Hilda Lloréns Hilda Lloréns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 74–93. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-74 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Hilda Lloréns; Dislocated Geographies: A Story of Border Crossings. Small Axe 1 February 2006; 10 (1): 74–93. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215…
Dislocated Geographies: A Story of Border Crossings
Research Article| February 01 2006 Dislocated Geographies: A Story of Border Crossings Hilda Lloréns Hilda Lloréns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 74–93. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-74 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Hilda Lloréns; Dislocated Geographies: A Story of Border Crossings. Small Axe 1 February 2006; 10 (1): 74–93. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215…
Water is life, but the colony is a necropolis: Environmental terrains of struggle in Puerto Rico
The catastrophic conditions after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, homeland to the second largest US Latinx group, also result from a long history of colonial exploitation exacerbated by economic downturn, debt crisis, and federally imposed austerity. US policies affecting agriculture and attracting contaminating industries set the groundwork for extreme environmental degradation, which in turn has long motivated local community activism, coalitio…
Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice
Winner of the 2022 Frank Bonilla Book Award, sponsored by the Puerto Rican Studies Association Winner of the 2022 Gregory Bateson Book Prize, sponsored by the Society for Cultural Anthropology Brings to life Afro-Puerto Rican women’s creative struggles for environmental justice When Hurricanes Irma and María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, their destructive force further devastated an archipelago already pummeled by economic auste…
Beyondblanqueamiento: Black affirmation in contemporary Puerto Rico
If, according to turn-of-the-twentieth-century observers, black Puerto Ricans were destined to become racially white in a few generations, how did 12.4 per cent of the population manage to remain black in 2010? And how did they survive in the face of both national and everyday forms of racism? How is the persistence and even increase in black identity in Puerto Rico supported? This article argues that there is a covert and largely unexplored soci…
Imaging Disaster: Puerto Rico through the Eye of Hurricane María
During Hurricane María, individuals throughout the Caribbean uploaded video and photographs to social media, but as winds downed communication towers and electric lines, sharing stopped. Still, satellites orbiting high above Earth transmitted views of the massive hurricane. In the following weeks, the media bombarded viewers with scenes of devastated landscapes, people wading through waist-deep water, infrastructure shredded beyond recognition, a…
Latina bodies in the era of elective aesthetic surgery
Colonial Incongruence at Work: Employing US Census Racial Categories in Puerto Rico
Black Latina Womanhood: From Latinx Fragility to Empowerment and Social Justice Praxis
Black Latina Womanhood: From Latinx Fragility to Empowerment and Social Justice Praxis Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores (bio), Hilda Lloréns (bio), Nancy López (bio), Maritza Quiñones (bio), and on behalf of Black Latinas Know Collective On April 29, 2019, the Black Latinas Know Collective (BLKC) published its website and statement (Black Latinas Know Collective 2019). The BLKC Statement, shared below, reflects our thinking as Black Latina scholars in t…
Water Sharing as Disaster Response: Coping With Water Insecurity After Hurricane MarÍa
In 2017, Hurricane María left more than a third of Puerto Rican households without water services. Cascading failures—including the simultaneous collapse of water, electricity, and transportation sectors—presented serious challenges to the timely restoration of governmental services. In response, families across Puerto Rico adopted self-organized coping strategies to obtain the basic resources they needed, including safe and sufficient water. Dra…
Dislocated Geographies
Research Article| February 01 2006 Dislocated Geographies: A Story of Border Crossings Hilda Lloréns Hilda Lloréns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 74–93. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-74 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Hilda Lloréns; Dislocated Geographies: A Story of Border Crossings. Small Axe 1 February 2006; 10 (1): 74–93. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215…
Dislocated Geographies: A Story of Border Crossings
Research Article| February 01 2006 Dislocated Geographies: A Story of Border Crossings Hilda Lloréns Hilda Lloréns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 74–93. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-74 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Hilda Lloréns; Dislocated Geographies: A Story of Border Crossings. Small Axe 1 February 2006; 10 (1): 74–93. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215…
Sculpting Blackness: Representations of Black‐Puerto Ricans in Public Art
This article examines how race is represented in public art‐works sponsored by the State in contemporary Puerto Rico. We focus mainly on two sculptures that commemorate Puerto Rico's black heritage, the sculptural triad entitled “Ritmo” (2006), and the sculpture titled “Osaín” (2007), both located in the town of Caguas. We argue that blackness in Puerto Rican art‐works is rendered passive, foreign, and primitive. Nevertheless, while creating folk…
Pulling Up Myths from the Root: ’ Designing and Implementing an Anti-Racist Curriculum About the African Heritage for Third Graders in Puerto Rico
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Isar Godreau, Hilda Llórens; 'Pulling Up Myths from the Root:' Designing and Implementing an Anti-Racist Curriculum About the African Heritage for Third Graders in Puerto Rico. Practicing Anthropology 1 January 2010; 32 (1): 26–31. doi: …
Colonial Incongruence at Work: Employing US Census Racial Categories in Puerto Rico
Latina bodies in the era of elective aesthetic surgery
Imaging the Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race, and Gender during the American Century
In Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American Century, Hilda Lloréns offers a ground-breaking study of images—photographs, postcards, paintings, posters, and films—about Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans made by American and Puerto Rican image-makers between 1890 and 1990. Through illuminating discussions of artists, images, and social events, the book offers a critical analysis of the power-laden cultu…
Ruin Nation: In Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria laid bare the results of a long-term crisis created by dispossession, migration, and economic predation
In communities and towns left moribund by the death of the sugar industry in Puerto Rico, land sits fallow, and industrial complexes from earlier eras have been left to rot. Overgrown vegetation an
Women Lead Puerto Rico’s Recovery: In Puerto Rico’s southeast, women are at the forefront of the struggle against environmental degradation and catastrophe
“After the hurricane the community worked many, many hours clearing roads and helping each other. There is still so much left to do ... I am just thankful we are alive.” –Isme Figueroa, president of
Imaging Disaster: Puerto Rico through the Eye of Hurricane María
During Hurricane María, individuals throughout the Caribbean uploaded video and photographs to social media, but as winds downed communication towers and electric lines, sharing stopped. Still, satellites orbiting high above Earth transmitted views of the massive hurricane. In the following weeks, the media bombarded viewers with scenes of devastated landscapes, people wading through waist-deep water, infrastructure shredded beyond recognition, a…
Beyondblanqueamiento: Black affirmation in contemporary Puerto Rico
If, according to turn-of-the-twentieth-century observers, black Puerto Ricans were destined to become racially white in a few generations, how did 12.4 per cent of the population manage to remain black in 2010? And how did they survive in the face of both national and everyday forms of racism? How is the persistence and even increase in black identity in Puerto Rico supported? This article argues that there is a covert and largely unexplored soci…
Water is life, but the colony is a necropolis: Environmental terrains of struggle in Puerto Rico
The catastrophic conditions after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, homeland to the second largest US Latinx group, also result from a long history of colonial exploitation exacerbated by economic downturn, debt crisis, and federally imposed austerity. US policies affecting agriculture and attracting contaminating industries set the groundwork for extreme environmental degradation, which in turn has long motivated local community activism, coalitio…
Black Latina Womanhood: From Latinx Fragility to Empowerment and Social Justice Praxis
Black Latina Womanhood: From Latinx Fragility to Empowerment and Social Justice Praxis Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores (bio), Hilda Lloréns (bio), Nancy López (bio), Maritza Quiñones (bio), and on behalf of Black Latinas Know Collective On April 29, 2019, the Black Latinas Know Collective (BLKC) published its website and statement (Black Latinas Know Collective 2019). The BLKC Statement, shared below, reflects our thinking as Black Latina scholars in t…
Powering Life in Puerto Rico: The struggle to transform Puerto rico’s flawed energy grid with locally controlled alternatives is a matter of life and death
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
A Passion for the Sea: Human-Sea Interactions in Contemporary Caribbean Art
This article reports on some of the ways in which the Caribbean contemporary artists Tony Capellán, Christopher Cozier, Scherezade Garcia, El Colectivo Shampoo, Jorge Zeno, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, and Nadia Huggins deploy the semiotically rich imagery of the sea to comment on some of today’s most pressing social concerns. The success of their artwork is the result of the fact that in visualizing local realities, they increasingl…
Toxic Racism in Puerto Rico’s Sacrifice Zone: In Jobos Bay, Afro-Puerto Rican communities living in the shadow of two polluting power plants fight for the right to a safe environment
The gentle descent from Puerto Rico’s central mountains into the southern coastal plain offers a spectacular seaside vista. It is a panoramic view of a seemingly vast Caribbean Sea in varying hues
Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice
Winner of the 2022 Frank Bonilla Book Award, sponsored by the Puerto Rican Studies Association Winner of the 2022 Gregory Bateson Book Prize, sponsored by the Society for Cultural Anthropology Brings to life Afro-Puerto Rican women’s creative struggles for environmental justice When Hurricanes Irma and María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, their destructive force further devastated an archipelago already pummeled by economic auste…
Visualizing green capitalist renewable energy: Development and grassroots solar community alternatives in Puerto Rico
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 …
Coastal Forest Fisheries, Estuarine Livelihoods, and Human Well-being in Southern Puerto Rico
Water Sharing as Disaster Response: Coping With Water Insecurity After Hurricane MarÍa
In 2017, Hurricane María left more than a third of Puerto Rican households without water services. Cascading failures—including the simultaneous collapse of water, electricity, and transportation sectors—presented serious challenges to the timely restoration of governmental services. In response, families across Puerto Rico adopted self-organized coping strategies to obtain the basic resources they needed, including safe and sufficient water. Dra…
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