Colonial Debts - The Case of Puerto Rico

Rocío Zambrana uses the current political-economic moment in Puerto Rico to outline how debt functions as both an apparatus that strengthens neoliberalism and the island's colonial relation to the United States.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Colonial Debts  1
1. Neoliberal Coloniality  21
2. Colonial Exceptionality  53
3. Historical Reckoning  82
4. Subversive Interruption  110
Conclusion. Decoloniality as Reparations  139
Notes  167
Bibliography  229
Index  257

About the author

Rocío Zambrana is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Emory University and author of Hegel's Theory of Intelligibility.

Summary

Rocío Zambrana uses the current political-economic moment in Puerto Rico to outline how debt functions as both an apparatus that strengthens neoliberalism and the island's colonial relation to the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Rocfo Zambrana, Rocio Zambrana, Rocío Zambrana
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781478011835
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-1183-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Radical Americas; Radical Américas
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration