Ysabel Munoz
Publications
Book Review: Munoz on Lloréns, 'Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice'
Hilda Lloréns dedicates her recent volume, Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice, to the ethical and epistemological contributions from Black women in Puerto Rico.
NATION, TOXICITY, AND CARE: EXPLORING CHEMICAL KINSHIP IN CUBA’S LATEST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER
Pollution as a widespread phenomenon on the Cuban island has received less academic attention from the humanities and social sciences. This article reflects on this "dirty" side of the story, and the relations made visible in the Matanzas explosions.
Swimming with Trash in the Caribbean
The Caribbean art invites us to consider human stress on natural environments and nature’s capacity to cope with a trend of accelerated consumerism, when terrestrial and marine landscapes are substituted with threatening images of wastescapes.
Permaculture in Cuba. Designing Sustainability
Permaculture focuses on human habitat design and farming methods which mimic the relationships found in the patterns of nature. Its central axes are food production, energy supply, landscape design and the organization of (infra) social structures.