{"product_id":"colonial-debts-roco-zambrana-9781478011835","title":"Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico","description":"With the largest municipal debt in US history and a major hurricane that destroyed much of the archipelago's infrastructure, Puerto Rico has emerged as a key site for the exploration of neoliberalism and disaster capitalism. In \u003ci\u003eColonial Debts\u003c\/i\u003e Roc o Zambrana develops the concept of neoliberal coloniality in light of Puerto Rico's debt crisis. Drawing on decolonial thought and praxis, Zambrana shows how debt functions as an apparatus of predation that transforms how neoliberalism operates. Debt functions as a form of coloniality, intensifying race, gender, and class hierarchies in ways that strengthen the colonial relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States. Zambrana also examines the transformation of protest in Puerto Rico. From La Colectiva Feminista en Construcci n's actions, long-standing land rescue\/occupation in the territory, to the July 2019 protests that ousted former governor Ricardo \"Ricky\" Rossell , protests pursue variations of decolonial praxis that subvert the positions of power that debt installs. As Zambrana demonstrates, debt reinstalls the colonial condition and adapts the racial\/gender order essential to it, thereby emerging as a key site for political-economic subversion and social rearticulation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roc? Zambrana\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478011831\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478011835\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d","brand":"Roc? Zambrana","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048890102015,"sku":"9781478011835","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5c511bc9-7398-46e8-82f6-9c3d62f4fc0e.jpg?v=1684998414","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/colonial-debts-roco-zambrana-9781478011835","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}