{"id":9411,"date":"2023-07-05T12:49:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T16:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/?p=9411"},"modified":"2023-09-19T16:02:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T20:02:18","slug":"featured-faculty-book-making-livable-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/summer-2023-cat\/featured-faculty-book-making-livable-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Faculty Book: Making Livable Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Most anthropologists would refer to the ethnographic research that Hilda Llor\u00e9ns did for her latest book as fieldwork. But Llor\u00e9ns calls it \u201chomework.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s because the area she studies\u2014the communities surrounding the Jobos Bay in southern Puerto Rico\u2014is where she was born and where generations of her family have lived. In Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice (2021), Llor\u00e9ns chronicles the lives of women in this region who draw on deep cultural knowledge to navigate myriad environmental challenges from industrial pollution to disasters like hurricanes Irma and Maria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Llor\u00e9ns, an associate professor of anthropology at 溏心vlog免费B站, says her goal was to elevate the stories of women whose contributions to their community are often overlooked or even erased entirely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last fall, Llor\u00e9ns won two prestigious awards for her book. She says she\u2019s appreciative of the recognition, but what\u2019s more important to her is being an advocate for those living around Jobos Bay. \u201cMy academic tradition is advocacy anthropology, so I like to be involved in community work,\u201d Llor\u00e9ns said. \u201cI didn\u2019t write this book just to write a book; I\u2019m really hoping to help change the reality of a place that needs advocacy.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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