Energy Islands - (Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture) by Catalina M de Onís (Paperback)

This book, "Energy Islands," is a groundbreaking work that challenges the conventional narratives surrounding Puerto Rico as a tourist destination and site of natural disasters.

Through a combination of historical and ethnographic research, author Catalina M.

de Onis reveals how fossil fuel economies are inextricably linked to colonial practices and policies, and how local community groups have fought against energy colonialism to transform power from the ground up. De Onis highlights the struggles of these groups to decentralize continental contexts and deconstruct damaging hierarchies that exploit rural coastal communities.

She also collaborates with individuals who refuse the cruel logics of empire by imagining and implementing energy justice and other interconnected radical power transformations. Throughout the book, Onis provides conceptual tools for envisioning alternative world-making, using metaphors such as islands to illustrate her points.

"Energy Islands" is a must-read for anyone interested in energy, colonialism, and the fight for justice and equality.