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Author: Rocío Zambrana
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Weight: 0.522kg
ISBN: 9781478010722
ISBN 10: 147801072
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 04 June 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
There are few better sites than Puerto Rico to take as a case study for the exploration of the entanglement between neoliberalism, colonialism, and coloniality. Rocio Zambrana offers a creative theoretical account that expands the horizon of examination from financial debts to historical debts, and from juridico-political colonialism to coloniality. Colonial Debts provides an indispensable philosophical analysis to understand our current time. It is an essential reading in critical and political theory, as well as in Puerto Rican and Caribbean Studies. -- Nelson Maldonado-Torres, author of * Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity * At a time when many are turning to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, there is a dire need for sophisticated texts like this that can help unsettle much of the common sense thinking about Puerto Rico's debt and its colonial relationship to the United States. It is rare to see a book of this level of theoretical heft so well grounded in contemporary politics. Colonial Debts makes a unique and urgent contribution. -- Yarimar Bonilla, coeditor of * Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm *
There are few better sites than Puerto Rico to take as a case study for the exploration of the entanglement between neoliberalism, colonialism, and coloniality. Rocio Zambrana offers a creative theoretical account that expands the horizon of examination from financial debts to historical debts, and from juridico-political colonialism to coloniality. Colonial Debts provides an indispensable philosophical analysis to understand our current time. It is an essential reading in critical and political theory, as well as in Puerto Rican and Caribbean Studies. -- Nelson Maldonado-Torres, author of * Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity * At a time when many are turning to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, there is a dire need for sophisticated texts like this that can help unsettle much of the commonsense thinking about Puerto Rico's debt and its colonial relationship to the United States. It is rare to see a book of this level of theoretical heft so well grounded in contemporary politics. Colonial Debts makes a unique and urgent contribution. -- Yarimar Bonilla, coeditor of * Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm *
Author Information
Rocío Zambrana is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Emory University and author of Hegel's Theory of Intelligibility.
