Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the AmericasIn her groundbreaking Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas, Judith Sierra Rivera studies five different contexts of crisis: natural disasters in Mexico, forced displacements between Central America and the United States, a whitewashed transition to democracy in Chile, colonialism and wars in Puerto Rico, and racism and patriarchy in Cuba. All of these scenarios share the common ground of the neoliberal space of