Imagining peace and enacting utopias in Puerto Rico
(2024) In Peacebuilding- Abstract
Local groups in Puerto Rico are often described as being at the forefront of climate transformation. This article explores active struggles towards alternate futures, using a critical concept of utopia in a phenomenological study alongside women at a community organisation in Culebra, Puerto Rico. I use feminist ethics of care as a theory of knowledge to study how cognitive, embodied, and affective visions influence struggles towards utopian futures. The empirical study reveals how women experientially understand climate change through food, livelihoods, and identity in Culebra. They express and imagine futures through orienting dependencies towards reciprocal care; foster place-based belonging through collective relations; and envision... (More)
Local groups in Puerto Rico are often described as being at the forefront of climate transformation. This article explores active struggles towards alternate futures, using a critical concept of utopia in a phenomenological study alongside women at a community organisation in Culebra, Puerto Rico. I use feminist ethics of care as a theory of knowledge to study how cognitive, embodied, and affective visions influence struggles towards utopian futures. The empirical study reveals how women experientially understand climate change through food, livelihoods, and identity in Culebra. They express and imagine futures through orienting dependencies towards reciprocal care; foster place-based belonging through collective relations; and envision alternatives through longing that intertwines past, current, and yet-to-come temporalities. This study contributes to knowledge production about transformation and peace, and underlines the importance of imagination as part of the politics of knowledge.
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- author
- Nicoson, Christie LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- in press
- subject
- keywords
- Care, climate change, knowledge production, peace, phenomenology, utopia
- in
- Peacebuilding
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85207293622
- ISSN
- 2164-7259
- DOI
- 10.1080/21647259.2024.2415814
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 0e769251-65bc-4655-bf18-b0baa9ae67c8
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- 2025-01-02 14:59:48
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author = {{Nicoson, Christie}},
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language = {{eng}},
publisher = {{Taylor & Francis}},
series = {{Peacebuilding}},
title = {{Imagining peace and enacting utopias in Puerto Rico}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2024.2415814}},
doi = {{10.1080/21647259.2024.2415814}},
year = {{2024}},
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