... the lens of Puerto Rico’s colonial crisis as symptomatic of a global crisis of neoliberal capitalism, by means of an analytics of debt as a central feature of capitalist modernity. Rather than simply presenting the book, the essay critically addresses several interwoven questions that are key to its...

... as a masculinist, forward-looking discourse of colonial modernity and neoliberal development, see Miguel Rodríguez Casellas, “Echarpalantismo,” 80 Grados , 25 October 2013, www.80grados.net/echarpalantismo . 46 Christopher Powers Guimond, 4645 (San Juan: Editora Educación Emergente, 2020); Nicolas...

... the most effective technology in the financialized neoliberal present, but it is not the only one. Debt works within a colonial political economy that precedes the installation of neoliberal rationality in the archipelago, one that imagines development through tax exemption and that since 2012 consolidates...

... Colonialism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018), as well as John L. and Jean Comaroff, Ethnicity Inc . (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), which highlight the colonial machinations in the manipulation of precolonial traditions, reinventions of tradition that in the neoliberal era...

... of violence—state, domestic, sexual, racial, colonial, apartheid, imperial, neoliberal—that connect black and brown lives in both the global South and the global North. 3 I begin by providing a detailed synopsis of the project and examining its relationship to feminist art practitioners. I then situate...

... are exemplary of the necropolitical effects of neoliberal coloniality” (24). Zambrana then locates various forms of protest, refusal, and subversion through interrupting the ontological positioning of indebtedness within coloniality on the colony, a praxis that works against sovereignty’s tendency to move...

... Walcott What might human dignity and freedom look like for black people, especially poor black people in the post–civil rights/post-independence neoliberal moment of our times? How might we think about the states of freedom and unfreedom that currently organize...

... of waiting bears forms of violence that conjugate the spectacular with the quotidian: “The wait of disaster is only one modality of the temporality of the slow death of neoliberal coloniality. Muñiz-Varela speaks of the temporal logic of carceral waiting , . . . also the wait of violence and inhuman...

... the country and thus foment a regime change by helping to arm the neighborhood gangs aligned with the JLP. In this manner both Cold War covert efforts to sociopolitically shape former colonial societies and the more subtle and diffuse efforts of international financial institutions to enforce the neoliberal...

...), they unwittingly reproduce the dominant ideologies of global- ization, which eschew systemic explanations.2 The most salient colonial ideology and practice in the Caribbean today is neoliberalism, and the easy dismissal of mass popular movements as totalitarian is indeed the (accidental) corollary...

... of archives, and neoliberal anxieties in contemporary Jamaica. Exceptional Violence stakes a claim in rethinking violence and citizenship, but it is Thomas's contributions to the examination of Rastafari thought and the idea of freedom that are its distinguishing marks. Beyond neoliberal fantasies...

...Edward Sammons The onset of the Great Recession posed a stern challenge to the prevailing model for better living through globalization. Late in the last decade, after having dominated the theory and practice of policy reform for over thirty years, the market-first doctrine known as neoliberalism...

..., and capitalizing on the homing instincts of diasporic populations. In this essay we reflect on how Caribbean studies might provoke critical attention to these emerging governmental strategies (what we call a nascent diasporic governmentality) in a neoliberalized Caribbean. James Clifford has differentiated...

... but implicates the direction of the Jamaican cultural scene. The contours of neoliberal logic still couched in well-entrenched colonial hegemonies are manifest in the Dudus-Golding fiasco. Jamaicans knew for certain that Golding's uptown brown supporters would not have died like Dudus's downtown black ones...

.... 36 • November 2011 • Millery Polyné  |  165 of postcoloniality and neoliberalism.1 Additionally, my hesitation stems from the emergence of “blueprints” designed to foster educational, economic, and infrastructural development that fail to discuss power and politics in Haiti within the local...

... with the “fall of the Caribbean Left in the 1980s” and the “triumph of capital over labor under neoliberalism.” This social psychological approach offers decontextualized analyses that are disconnected from the violence that took place under colonialism in the region. It constructs narratives (description...

... lineage of definitions of political community by connecting these definitions to the physical and structural violence of colonialism and slavery. In so doing, the book also establishes more explicitly Thomas's interest in citizenship and in how normative bases of national belonging are reproduced...

... to stake out forms of creole (yet tendentiously raced) citizenship, as most evident in the tensions and confrontations between the maroons and the former slaves. In this case, each group sought to sustain alternative practices of freedom by different forms of critical engagement with the colonial state...

... espejos , Quintapata envisaged unexplored ways of channeling popular mobilization to critically reflect on the continuities of (neo)colonial and neoliberal systems of domination and the spatial ways these are materialized. But while this connection between different pressing issues became evident...

... and political purchase on the epoch of postcolonial neoliberalism, this essay reflects on modes of archival attunement and Caribbean philosophies of history. 32 Walter Benjamin, Illuminations , trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Shocken, 1968), 263. 31 Wilson Harris, “History, Fable, and Myth...