Adriana María Garriga-LópezFlorida Atlantic University | FAU
Adriana María Garriga-López
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Introduction
Adriana María Garriga-López is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. Garriga-López holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University in New York (2010), as well as Masters degrees in philosophy (2006) and arts (2003) from the same institution, and a B.A. from Rutgers University (2001) in cultural anthropology and comparative literature. She is also a poet, soprano, muralist, and performance artist.
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La Ley del Estatus de Puerto Rico presenta un referéndum sobre el futuro político del archipiélago, pero las imposiciones de E.E.U.U. nunca permitirán su liberación total. Una campaña popular permitiría nuevas posibilidades autónomas.
As described by theorist Louis Althusser, academic institutions frequently function to reproduce a society's existing social relations. This function can make it di‘cult for those that are ’different' to advance while retaining their differences, and even more difficult to integrate ideas that radically alter not just disciplines themselves, but th...
Autorizado por la Oficina del Contralor Electoral. CUADERNOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN, Instituto de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey.
This essay comments upon the artistic practices of contemporary Puerto Rican dancers and performance artists, some of which I conceive of or interpret as experimental forays into future-oriented feminist/queer and decolonial heterotopias. I analyze here some of the practices and ideas Puerto Rican artists (and small farmers) have enacted and propos...
This is the Spanish language version of my piece in this landmark anthology on experimental dance and performance in Puerto Rico edited by nibia pastrana santiago and Susan Homar. The English language version is also out separately, through Michigan University Press (2023). PDF for my chapter in Spanish is included here.
Puerto Rico is experiencing a public health crisis driven by effects and processes of US colonialism in the archipelago, such as the exclusionary application of federal health policy, an exodus of health care professionals, and the long-term effects of unequal distribution of health care funding in the unincorporated territories. Compound effects o...
La movilidad es constitutiva de la historia de la humanidad, pero las políticas imperialistas y neocolonialistas del Norte Global impuestas sobre países del Sur la convierten en prácticas de explotación, hambre, violencia y destrucción socio-ambiental. La pandemia de COVID-19 que sofoca al mundo desde finales de 2019 también ha marcado un hito en l...
We develop questions for a COVID-19 research agenda from the anthropology of disasters to study the production of pandemic as a feature of the normatively accepted societal state of affairs. We encourage an applied study of the pandemic that recognizes it as the product of connections between people, with their social systems, nonhumans, and the ma...
Puerto Rico was hit by a category 4 hurricane that severely damaged power, water, and communications systems on the 20th of September 2017. Based on 56 qualitative interviews, this article documents how health care workers created a new ethics of care after Hurricane Maria and engaged in novel forms of health activism to both repair past damage and...
In this essay, I argue that we must de-transcendentalize our ideas about decolonization within anthropology. In other words, I argue that we must learn to see decolonization as an ongoing and open-ended process, rather than as an event after which we are simply done with interrogating the coloniality of anthropology. I also call for the training of...
This essay addresses the epistemic limits of crisis as a trope for thinking about the future of Puerto Rico in the context of fiscal austerity programs and the combined effects of multiple disasters. Small-scale agriculture and mutual aid offer models of resistance to US colonialism as the underlying power structure reinforcing debt and political s...
https://americanethnologist.org/features/collections/pandemic-diaries/coasting-the-future-teaching-as-resistance-in-a-pandemic
This essay is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out from December 2017 to August 2019. In it, I reframe the condition of disaster that Puerto Rico faced after Hurricane Maria through a consideration of the political economy of the post-hurricane crisis. I consider the ways that Puerto Rico has become a highly active extractive zone on the per...
Over the course of 16 months, more than 35400 cases of Zika virus infection have been confirmed in Puerto Rico. This represents 85% of all cases reported in the USA and its territories. The Zika epidemic is exposing the profound failure of socioeconomic policies, as well as the failure to protect sexual and reproductive health rights in Puerto Rico...
E ste escrito responde a nuestra preocupación ante la epidemia actual del virus del Zika en Puerto Rico y el Caribe, y a nuestro interés de recomendar intervenciones útiles para su manejo.
Following from the analysis of unstructured interviews conducted with members of the first AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power's (ACT UP!) New York contingent to visit Puerto Rico with expressly activist aims, this presentation traces some linkages and disconnects between HIV/AIDS activism in New York City and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Reflecting on the u...
