Mass-Listening and the Diaspora

Abstract

We in Puerto Rico are now over two years from the successive landfalls of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September 2017, and we still linger in a fraught aftermath. Looking beyond the sites photographed for glossy tourism campaigns reveals a different reality. Hospitals and schools remain closed, electricity and other utility services are precarious, and lasting instability combined with a dire lack of social services leave many citizens languishing in medical and mental health crises.