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Gustavo is an engaged scholar, educator, and apprentice organizer from the islands of Puerto Rico. He has transdisciplinary social-environmental sciences training, combining political ecology and environmental policy and planning, with decolonial Latin American and Caribbean studies. His work centers on transformative eco-social initiatives and ...
- Challenging Necrotic Colonial-Capitalism
- Self-Assembly, Autogestion and Life Alternatives
- Autogestion as Decolonization and Sovereignty “From Below”
LeBrón (2019) observed that this summer’s movement was about “life and death” – against the political economy of the colony, which is a necropolis as Lloréns and Stanchich note (2019). Tormos-Aponte (2018) had also observed these“politics of survival” in the aftermath of hurricane Maria. This is not just about Puerto Rico but rather a larger global...
Events over the past two years have “opened eyes” not only about the disasters generated by the corrupt necropolitics of colonial-capitalism, but also the power of self-assembly and autogestion as part of a politics of life: in the “mutual aid” groups flourishing post-Maria, and in the creation of people’s assemblies (asambleas de pueblo), labelled...
Since the debt crisis and then Maria, our colonial condition was inevitably in discussion this summer: “Ricky vete y llévate a la Junta” (Ricky go, and take the Junta [Fiscal Control Board] with you) was one of the slogans. The critique of colonialism was central to Puerto Rico’s EJ struggles from the beginning. Movement activists coined the conc...
Thinking the commons through Ostrom and Butler: Boundedness and vulnerability. I Velicu, G García-López. Theory, Culture & Society 35 (6), 55-73. , 2018. 107. 2018. Disturbance, response, and persistence in self-organized forested communities: analysis of robustness and resilience in five communities in southern Indiana.
Engaged researcher, educator, and apprentice organizer, from the Archipelago of Boriken (Puerto Rico), currently based at the Ecoogy and Society Workshop (ECOSOC) of the Center for Social Studies...
- Professor (Assistant)
Jun 1, 2018 · Gustavo A. García-López Dr. García-López is an assistant professor at Graduate School of Planning, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico. View all articles by this author
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Gustavo Garcia Lopez. Engaged scholar, educator, and apprentice organizer, from the islands of Puerto Rico. He has transdisciplinary social-environmental sciences training, combining political ecology and environmental policy and planning, with decolonial and Latin American and Caribbean studies. His work centers on transformative eco-social ...
Palgrave Macmillan, 389-414. Villamayor, Sergio; García-López, Gustavo (2021), Decommonisation-commonisation dynamics and social movements: Insights from a meta-analysis of case studies, in Nayak, Prateep (org.), Making Commons Dynamic: Understanding Change Through Commonisation and Decommonisation. Routledge.
