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    Navigating food futures post-disaster: the intersectional politics of race, gender, disability and access
    (Informa UK, 2025-10-01) Diaz, Ileana I.
    A historically devastating series of climatic events in September 2017 transformed lives in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. The impacts of Hurricanes Irma and Maria ruptured the functionality of lifeways in unprecedented forms. The events also characterize the longest disaster response muddle in the history of the United States. This focused case study investigates the ways that individuals navigate their island food system in a post-disaster context. It explores the political, social and economic circumstances which inform various experiences of food insecurity, hunger, gendered vulnerabilities, disability and the role that layered structural inequity plays in producing unequal access to food. Based on news media, photographic analysis and in-depth interviews conducted with those who lived through both hurricanes, an evidence-informed intersectional analysis is produced. Scaffolding the research conceptually through an intersectionality and Afro-diasporic futures epistemology, this paper contributes a geographical and feminist analysis to the study of disasters in relation to food insecurity. Markedly, people living with disabilities and women participants reported increased challenges to disaster recovery and resilience. Parents were found to be the most food insecure. Research findings show that gender, race, disability and income play a pivotal role in shaping food access and long-term wellbeing in post-disaster contexts. -----