What rural, coastal Puerto Ricans can teach us about thriving in times of crisis

A man fishing from a dock in Fajardo, Puerto Rico. AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo
Q FRONT PAGE – Puerto Ricans are searching for solutions to the island’s worst economic and social crisis in a long time.
An unprecedented debt level is creating widespread uncertainty about employment and the state’s ability to provide basic services. This crisis is not going away anytime soon, but solutions may be closer than we think.
As cultural anthropologists, we have spent more than a decade studying how people’s everyday lives relate to larger social and economic processes and have documented the negative effects of inequality. In doing so, we have also witnessed people in Puerto Rico who “refuse to play by the rules” of capitalism. Some scholars have even argued that Caribbean peoples are

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