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Books by Jose Atiles

Stanford University Press, 2024

Devastating hurricanes, deteriorating infrastructure, massive public debt, and a global pandemic ... more Devastating hurricanes, deteriorating infrastructure, massive public debt, and a global pandemic make up the continuous crises that plague Puerto Rico. In the last several years, this disastrous escalation has placed the archipelago more centrally on the radar of residents and politicians in the United States, as the US Congress established an oversight board with emergency powers to ensure Puerto Rico's economic survival—and its ability to repay its debt. These events should not be understood as a random string of compounding misfortune. Rather, as demonstrated by Jose Atiles in Crisis by Design, they result from the social, legal, and political structure of colonialism. Moreover, Atiles shows how administrations, through emergency powers and laws paired with the dynamics of wealth extraction, have served to sustain and exacerbate crises. He explores the role of the local government, corporations, and grassroots mobilizations. More broadly, the Puerto Rican case provides insight into the role of law and emergency powers in other global south, Caribbean, and racialized and colonized countries. In these settings, Atiles contends, colonialism is the ongoing catastrophe.

Editora Educación Emergente, 2019

Como secuela y complemento de Apuntes para abandonar el derecho, Jugando con el derecho profundiz... more Como secuela y complemento de Apuntes para abandonar el derecho, Jugando con el derecho profundiza el cuestionamiento de José M. Atiles-Osoria al derecho como dispositivo del poder colonial para neutralizar y despolitizar los movimientos anticoloniales puertorriqueños, aun a pesar de victorias esporádicas en los tribunales. Con minuciosidad teórica e histórica, y nutriéndose de la gran aportación metodológica de entrevistar a 46 luchadoras y luchadores por la descolonización de Puerto Rico, este libro detalla los múltiples modos en que, en un escenario de excepción colonial, el derecho incumple sistemáticamente su promesa de justicia, avalando con impunidad la estela de sangre que el colonialismo estadounidense en Puerto Rico, junto a sus cómplices locales, ha dejado a su paso para mantener la hegemonía. Asimismo, Jugando con el derecho constituye una significativa aportación a los estudios históricos sobre las luchas anticoloniales en Puerto Rico y la región caribeña, cubriendo el período que va desde la invasión estadounidense en 1898 hasta las dos primeras décadas del siglo XXI. Al tiempo que analiza comparativamente instancias institucionalizadas (los partidos), autónomas (los diversos movimientos u organizaciones) y efímeras (acciones específicas o alianzas temporeras) de lucha anticolonial en Puerto Rico, este libro se caracteriza por el reconocimiento de que "la historia de oposición y confrontación no es lineal ni progresiva, sino que durante los 120 años de colonialismo estadounidense ha habido períodos de mayor confrontación, de distenciones y de transiciones". Dicho reconocimiento permite calibrar de manera más justa las aportaciones y limitaciones de una inmensa multiplicidad de colectivos y agentes políticos, dando al traste con la generalizada idea en el Puerto Rico de hoy de que la descolonización radical nunca ha sido un horizonte apoyado por las mayorías en nuestro país. Jugando con el derecho forma parte de la serie Otra universidad. Idóneo para cursos de filosofía del derecho, de sociología del derecho, de historia de Puerto Rico y de derecho decolonial, entre otros.

El derecho en conflicto: colonialismo, despolitización y resistencia en Puerto Rico estudia la vi... more El derecho en conflicto: colonialismo, despolitización y resistencia en Puerto Rico estudia la vinculación radical entre derecho, colonialismo y violencia en el contexto colonial de Puerto Rico. El análisis filosófico-político, sociojurídico e histórico presentado en este libro expone, desde el paradigma del estado de excepción colonial, una nueva interpretación del poder colonial, de los usos del derecho y de los procesos que condujeron a la despolitización del anticolonialismo puertorriqueño. El libro invita a comprender de manera reflexiva el uso del derecho y de la excepcionalidad como dispositivos de acción política en las colonias, y a cuestionar ¿qué significa pensar y actuar políticamente en un contexto colonial?

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Apuntes para abandonar el derecho: estado de excepción colonial en Puerto Rico es una intervenció... more Apuntes para abandonar el derecho: estado de excepción colonial en Puerto Rico es una intervención crítica urgente en la coyuntura actual puertorriqueña. Propone una re-visión en clave decolonial al “estado de excepción” elaborado por Agamben, entre otros pensadores del
norte global, para trazar la genealogía –que más bien parece un eterno retorno– del imperialismo estadounidense. Es una interrogación aguda, exhaustiva y certera al rol protagónico y cómplice que ha jugado el derecho en las diversas manifestaciones de la colonialidad en Puerto Rico y otras latitudes. Más aún, es un emplazamiento a retomar la política, creativa y radicalmente, así como a invalidar las violencias imperiales del derecho vigente. Con la reciente aprobación de P.R.O.M.E.S.A y la activación de una Junta de Control
Fiscal sobre el gobierno local del archipiélago boricua, es imprescindible leer –y movilizar– estos Apuntes para abandonar el derecho…

Papers by Jose Atiles

The Sociological Review, 2023

This article introduces the concept of 'coloniality of anti-corruption' to help situate and descr... more This article introduces the concept of 'coloniality of anti-corruption' to help situate and describe contemporary US anti-corruption policies aimed at Puerto Rico. The aim of the concept of coloniality of anti-corruption is to underscore corruption's inextricable relationship to race, class, gender, and other colonial power relations. The article argues that US interventions with the Puerto Rican government, along with its distribution of disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane María (2017) and subsequent earthquakes (2020), are best understood against the backdrop of a long history of corruption narrative implemented by the US. This is a narrative that seeks to legitimate US's colonial and capitalist expansion in Puerto Rico. To demonstrate this, the article explores the application of anti-corruption narratives by the Trump administration to justify its disaster relief policies for Puerto Rico. In particular, the article focuses on Trump's tweets describing Puerto Rican politicians as 'corrupt' and Puerto Rico as 'geography of fraud.' In doing so, the article provides a theoretical account of the uses of corruption and anti-corruption discourses to justify colonial and capitalist's global endeavors. It also illustrates how anti-corruption policies reproduce the idea of the non-white other as the corrupt subject and denotes the humanitarian consequences of such policies.

Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, 2024

This article explores how Puerto Rico's anticorruption laws have spurred the development of a new... more This article explores how Puerto Rico's anticorruption laws have spurred the development of a new market for public procurement. This market enables significant investments in platforms, websites, training and educational materials, and consulting services to aid compliance with anticorruption legislations. This has given rise to an emerging economic sector where consulting, law, and technology firms thrive. This article aims to elucidate how the Puerto Rican government's commodification of anticorruption and anti-fraud interventions, and its outsourcing to consulting firms can be understood as part of a colonial regime of permission which normalized corruption and capital accumulation through wealth extraction. Through four examples of anticorruption public procurementanticorruption legislation, post-Hurricane María recovery, and economic assistance during the COVID-19 pandemicit demonstrates that wealth extraction is a key driver behind these anticorruption laws, ultimately creating an anticorruption market.

Latino Studies

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico on 7 January 2020, adding a new episode to the mult... more A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico on 7 January 2020, adding a new episode to the multilayered political, economic, and humanitarian crisis affecting the island since 2006. This article demonstrates how the recovery efforts and management of the emergency constitute a state crime. The analysis draws from governmental and journalistic investigation and engages with legal and critical discourse analysis to provide a criminological and sociolegal analysis of state crimes in Puerto Rico-which feature prominently in US colonial and racialized history and anticorruption policies in PR-and of the genealogy of colonial violence that generates these and other legalized and state-facilitated harms. The article analyzes legally contrived states of exception and executive orders used to manage the earthquake emergency, the cases of corruption and criminal negligence (so salient in the public conscience that structural critiques of incompetent, unethical, and extractive governance have been coalesced by popular movements under the hashtag #wandalismo), the legislative public hearing on the case of the government hoarding and stalling distribution of disaster supplies, and the anticorruption mobilizations of January 2020. The article articulates the timeliness and urgency of prioritizing research and theorizing of state crimes within the burgeoning field of Latina/o/x criminology.

Sociology Compass, 2023

The scholarship on crimes of the powerful encompasses a critical examination of social harms, and... more The scholarship on crimes of the powerful encompasses a critical examination of social harms, and crimes perpetrated by privately or publicly operated businesses and corporations, the state, international organizations, elites, as well as the state-mediated administrative and political responses to these crimes. Going beyond state-centric definitions of crime and deviance, this scholarship emphasizes studying power and the harmful and criminogenic operations of the neoliberal-capitalism. However, this scholarship has overlooked the systemic examination of these crimes in the Global South, Latin America and the Caribbean, and their impact on racialized, gendered, and other marginalized communities. This article aims to contribute to this scholarship by providing an overview of the current developments in the scholarship on crimes of the powerful and proposing some future research areas for Latin America and the Caribbean. Thus, the article aims to demonstrate that the Latin American and Caribbean experiences with crimes of the powerful can expand our understanding of the social harms generated by powerful organizations and actors and magnify the analytical and methodological reach of this critical scholarship.

Critical Sociology , 2023

The US and Puerto Rican governments’ anti-corruption and anti-fraud legislation and policies exac... more The US and Puerto Rican governments’ anti-corruption and anti-fraud legislation and policies exacerbated the socio-economic impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemic in Puerto Rico (PR). This article demonstrates how anti-corruption interventions prevented those in most need from receiving the economic benefits of the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program and other unemployment insurance benefits. Analyzing this specific instance of anti-corruption and anti-fraud interventions amid the COVID-19 pandemic allows for a deeper examination of how colonial interventions undermined PR’s capacity to handle the pandemic, exacerbated its socio-economic impact and created an unequal recovery. Thus, the article illustrates the contradictions of anti-corruption as punitive governance and the way in which a specific notion of corruption is reproduced through governmental actions, legal practices, and policies. Altogether, this article aims to contribute to the discussion on how colonial and punitive anti-corruption interventions enhance social exclusion, disproportionately harm racialized communities, and undermine people’s capacity to address period of crisis.

OÑATI SOCIO-LEGAL SERIES, 2023

This paper engages in a sociolegal analysis of the anti-corruption legislation enacted by the Pue... more This paper engages in a sociolegal analysis of the anti-corruption legislation enacted by the Puerto Rican Government in the aftermath of hurricane María (2017). It pays particular attention to the implementation and sociolegal impact of Act 2 of January 4, 2018, entitled, "The Anti-Corruption Code for the New Puerto Rico" and the creation of a Registry of Persons Convicted of Corruption. The rationale behind the Act and the Registry is to enforce transparency, open governance, and help the Puerto Rican government in its efforts to eradicate public corruption. Conversely, this paper argues that these reforms have introduce a punitive approach to anti-corruption in PR. The paper suggests Act 2 and the Registry had have a dual outcome: 1) a punitive approach to corruption that harm people in precarious positions, and 2) normalize the structural dynamic enabling corruption of the powerful. Thus, this paper intends to illustrate the contradictions in anti-corruption as punitive governance, and the way in which a specific image of corruption is reproduced through governmental actions, legal practices, and discourses.

Governmental responses to the COVID-19 global pandemic have generated numerous constitutionals, p... more Governmental responses to the COVID-19 global pandemic have generated numerous constitutionals, policy, legal, and political-economic debates. Scholarly engagements with the sociolegal and policy consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have been dominated by discussion on the role of emergency powers, the suspension of individual civil liberties, the suspension of economic rules in order to guarantee economic survival, and social regulation of public spaces and of workplaces. This paper aims to explore how a critical sociolegal scholarship can contribute to a more sophisticated understanding of the role of law in creating the unequal conditions that propitiated the COVID-19 pandemic and that might enable further crises. This introduction offers a roadmap for theorizing the limits of law, the operationalization of emergency powers and the different policies implemented by global south and north countries in response to the pandemic. This introduction is structured as follow: (1) provides a general overview of the law and society tradition and its engagement with the COVID-19 pandemic; (2) engages with three key consequences of the pandemic, labor, and the lockdown; colonial implications; and the limits of law; (3) introduces the papers in this special issue; (4) sketches a proposal for the critical sociolegal scholarship of law and crises. 1 | INTRODUCTION What is the role of law in establishing the conditions that produce pandemics? Can law help prevent future pandemics? At a most obvious level, these questions direct our attention to

Law and Policy , 2022

This paper explores how the use of emergency powers by the US and Puerto Rican governments exacer... more This paper explores how the use of emergency powers by the US and Puerto Rican governments exacerbated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and manufactured the conditions for furthering the multilayered economic, legal, political, and humanitarian crisis affecting Puerto Rico since 2006. The paper discusses three cases. First, it examines how the multiple declarations of the state of emergency, and its constant renewals, produced contradictory public health policies. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the Puerto Rican government has issued over 90 executive orders aimed at addressing the emergency, producing an unclear, contradictory, and unequal emergency management policy. Second, the paper focuses on the impact of the passing of Law 35 on April 5, 2020, which imposed severe penalties on those who disobeyed executive orders. As a result, hundreds of Puerto Ricans were arrested, fined, and incarcerated for violating the issued order. Third, the paper studies how, citing the presence of corruption, the Puerto Rican government implemented anti-corruption and anti-fraud policies that made it more difficult for those most in need of itmainly poor and racialized individuals, as well as immigrants and working women-to access Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. Thus, the paper argues that emergency policies designed to address the pandemic, punitive governance, and anti-corruption and anti-fraud policies undermined Puerto Rico's capacity to handle the pandemic, exacerbated its impact, and created an unequal recovery scenario.

Critical Criminology

This paper shows how the Puerto Rican government has used punitive governance to deal with three ... more This paper shows how the Puerto Rican government has used punitive governance to deal with three important reactions to the multilayered crisis affecting Puerto Rico since 2006: socioenvironmental mobilizations; anti-austerity mobilizations; and anticorruption mobilizations. The paper proposes a threefold analysis. Firstly, it provides a brief overview of the Puerto Rican economic and financial crisis, the neoliberal solutions to the crisis, and its consequences. Secondly, the paper expands on the intertwined / intertwining relationship between punitive governance, colonialism, and criminal law. Thirdly, the paper analyzes the process of criminalization of the socioenvironmental, anti-austerity, and anticorruption mobilizations resisting colonial abandonment. Two strategies will be discussed: (1) the uses of criminal law to limit freedom of speech and protests and (2) repression and the systemic deployment of state violence against protestors. The state's violent reactions to sociopolitical mobilizations are part of a long history of criminalizing and repressive practices that must be understood against the backdrop of US colonial history in Puerto Rico.

Diálogos de Saberes, (53), 181-204, 2020

This paper analyses the role of law in the mobilizations for reparation, restoration, and recogni... more This paper analyses the role of law in the mobilizations for reparation, restoration, and recognition of historical injuries and violent legacies caused by colonialism, slavery and racism in the State members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). By emphasizing on the CARICOM requests for reparation and restitution, this paper addresses the following three objectives: 1) to expose how the effects of colonial violence are interpreted; 2) to identify who are the main actors and what are the claims arising from these Caribbean mobilizations; 3) to analyze the uses of law implemented by this mobilization and the legal and political positions assumed by the European states. The paper proposes a sociolegal analysis of the legal mobilizations in postcolonial Caribbean countries. This overview of the CARICOM mobilization for reparation and justice will allow us to establish a dialogue about the role of postcolonial states in the process of memorialization of a violent colonial past and about the possibility of decolonial justices in postcolonial Caribbean states.

This article provides a criminological analysis of the extraction, consumption, and disposal of c... more This article provides a criminological analysis of the extraction, consumption, and disposal of coal in the Caribbean and the global south. It looks at how the transnational corporation Applied Energy System (AES) and its 454-megawatt coal-fired electric power plant in Puerto Rico has manufactured a transnational network of environmental harm and violence. The paper aims to demonstrate how coloniality, law, and state-corporate deviance enable the coal sector-a habitual environmental offender-to engage in systemic harm across different jurisdictions and states of the global south. To do so, we engage with the work of scholars in the green criminology (treadmill of production), state-corporate crimes (crimes of development), and crimes of the powerful (Ecocide and Carbon Criminal) traditions. Furthermore, this article briefly describes the stories of resistance taking place in Puerto Rico. In doing so, the article describes the criminogenic practices behind this fossil fuel industry, and how it has taken advantage of colonial practices, thus enhancing the historical harm manufactured by modernity and replicated within the neoliberal economy.

The South Atlantic Quarterly

The South Atlantic Quarterly , 2022

Fraud Crypto-Colonialism, Climate Crisis, and Dispossession in the Global South This dossier exam... more Fraud Crypto-Colonialism, Climate Crisis, and Dispossession in the Global South This dossier examines the current sociopolitical, economic, and legal experiences with the implementation of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency in Latin America and the Caribbean. This dossier looks at how the Puerto Rican and Salvadorian governments, in their efforts to insert their countries into global financial markets and capitalist circuits to tackle economic crisis and poverty, have implemented a series of neoliberal legislation, deregulations, and tax and monetary policies to attract techno-capitalists to their respective countries. The policies' sociopolitical and economic consequences are hidden within often embellished tropes of tropicality and paradisiacal lands of endless opportunity for entrepreneurs and techno-capitalists. The aim of this dossier is to critically interrogate how legislation and policies promoting the establishment of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency in El Salvador and Puerto Rico have exacerbated already existing population vulnerabilities, socioeconomic and financial crises, and the climate crisis. Thus, the papers in this dossier demonstrate the contested nature of the implementation of these technologies in the global South, and how they have become unsuccessful technological fixes to long-lasting economic and financial crises, inequalities, and natural disasters. Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency are relatively new technologies. Cryptocurrencies emerged in the aftermath of the global 2008 financial crisis and are a digital representation of economic value (Crandall 2019).

Puerto Rico's (PR) recent history (from 2016 to 2020) and its experience with a continuity of cri... more Puerto Rico's (PR) recent history (from 2016 to 2020) and its experience with a continuity of crises and disasters demonstrate the normalization of the use of the state of exception and executive orders to deal with threats to public safety and security. This paper looks at the United States and PR governmental imposition of the state of exception to: address the economic crisis; administer the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria (2017); police the anti-corruption mobilizations that ousted Governor Ricardo Rosselló in the summer of 2019; respond to the recent earthquakes (2019/2020) in the southern region of the Island, and to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. As a whole, my analysis shows how this normalization of exceptionality, and the militarization of policing during periods of "emergency" instead of guarantying public safety and security, creates the conditions for further waves of disaster.

State Crime Journal , 2021

The CoVId-19 global pandemic brings about a new episode in the multi-lay- ered political, economi... more The CoVId-19 global pandemic brings about a new episode in the multi-lay- ered political, economic and humanitarian crisis affecting Puerto Rico since 2006. The 14-years-long crisis has been marked by the U.S. and P.R. governments’ imposition of a permanent state of exception to deal with an economic crisis, bankruptcy, hurricanes, swarms of earthquakes and a pandemic. This paper argues that uses of the state of excep- tion and executive orders created a regime of permission for corruption, state-corporate crimes and human rights violations, while exacerbating the impact of the pandemic, and manufacturing the conditions for further disasters. The paper engages in a sociole- gal analysis of the cases of corruption and state-corporate crimes in the procurement of CoVId-19 test-kits and medical equipment, and the role of the pharmaceutical corpora- tions in undermining PR’s capacity to react to the CoVId-19 pandemic.

Stanford University Press, 2024

Devastating hurricanes, deteriorating infrastructure, massive public debt, and a global pandemic ... more Devastating hurricanes, deteriorating infrastructure, massive public debt, and a global pandemic make up the continuous crises that plague Puerto Rico. In the last several years, this disastrous escalation has placed the archipelago more centrally on the radar of residents and politicians in the United States, as the US Congress established an oversight board with emergency powers to ensure Puerto Rico's economic survival—and its ability to repay its debt. These events should not be understood as a random string of compounding misfortune. Rather, as demonstrated by Jose Atiles in Crisis by Design, they result from the social, legal, and political structure of colonialism. Moreover, Atiles shows how administrations, through emergency powers and laws paired with the dynamics of wealth extraction, have served to sustain and exacerbate crises. He explores the role of the local government, corporations, and grassroots mobilizations. More broadly, the Puerto Rican case provides insight into the role of law and emergency powers in other global south, Caribbean, and racialized and colonized countries. In these settings, Atiles contends, colonialism is the ongoing catastrophe.

Editora Educación Emergente, 2019

Como secuela y complemento de Apuntes para abandonar el derecho, Jugando con el derecho profundiz... more Como secuela y complemento de Apuntes para abandonar el derecho, Jugando con el derecho profundiza el cuestionamiento de José M. Atiles-Osoria al derecho como dispositivo del poder colonial para neutralizar y despolitizar los movimientos anticoloniales puertorriqueños, aun a pesar de victorias esporádicas en los tribunales. Con minuciosidad teórica e histórica, y nutriéndose de la gran aportación metodológica de entrevistar a 46 luchadoras y luchadores por la descolonización de Puerto Rico, este libro detalla los múltiples modos en que, en un escenario de excepción colonial, el derecho incumple sistemáticamente su promesa de justicia, avalando con impunidad la estela de sangre que el colonialismo estadounidense en Puerto Rico, junto a sus cómplices locales, ha dejado a su paso para mantener la hegemonía. Asimismo, Jugando con el derecho constituye una significativa aportación a los estudios históricos sobre las luchas anticoloniales en Puerto Rico y la región caribeña, cubriendo el período que va desde la invasión estadounidense en 1898 hasta las dos primeras décadas del siglo XXI. Al tiempo que analiza comparativamente instancias institucionalizadas (los partidos), autónomas (los diversos movimientos u organizaciones) y efímeras (acciones específicas o alianzas temporeras) de lucha anticolonial en Puerto Rico, este libro se caracteriza por el reconocimiento de que "la historia de oposición y confrontación no es lineal ni progresiva, sino que durante los 120 años de colonialismo estadounidense ha habido períodos de mayor confrontación, de distenciones y de transiciones". Dicho reconocimiento permite calibrar de manera más justa las aportaciones y limitaciones de una inmensa multiplicidad de colectivos y agentes políticos, dando al traste con la generalizada idea en el Puerto Rico de hoy de que la descolonización radical nunca ha sido un horizonte apoyado por las mayorías en nuestro país. Jugando con el derecho forma parte de la serie Otra universidad. Idóneo para cursos de filosofía del derecho, de sociología del derecho, de historia de Puerto Rico y de derecho decolonial, entre otros.

El derecho en conflicto: colonialismo, despolitización y resistencia en Puerto Rico estudia la vi... more El derecho en conflicto: colonialismo, despolitización y resistencia en Puerto Rico estudia la vinculación radical entre derecho, colonialismo y violencia en el contexto colonial de Puerto Rico. El análisis filosófico-político, sociojurídico e histórico presentado en este libro expone, desde el paradigma del estado de excepción colonial, una nueva interpretación del poder colonial, de los usos del derecho y de los procesos que condujeron a la despolitización del anticolonialismo puertorriqueño. El libro invita a comprender de manera reflexiva el uso del derecho y de la excepcionalidad como dispositivos de acción política en las colonias, y a cuestionar ¿qué significa pensar y actuar políticamente en un contexto colonial?

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Apuntes para abandonar el derecho: estado de excepción colonial en Puerto Rico es una intervenció... more Apuntes para abandonar el derecho: estado de excepción colonial en Puerto Rico es una intervención crítica urgente en la coyuntura actual puertorriqueña. Propone una re-visión en clave decolonial al “estado de excepción” elaborado por Agamben, entre otros pensadores del
norte global, para trazar la genealogía –que más bien parece un eterno retorno– del imperialismo estadounidense. Es una interrogación aguda, exhaustiva y certera al rol protagónico y cómplice que ha jugado el derecho en las diversas manifestaciones de la colonialidad en Puerto Rico y otras latitudes. Más aún, es un emplazamiento a retomar la política, creativa y radicalmente, así como a invalidar las violencias imperiales del derecho vigente. Con la reciente aprobación de P.R.O.M.E.S.A y la activación de una Junta de Control
Fiscal sobre el gobierno local del archipiélago boricua, es imprescindible leer –y movilizar– estos Apuntes para abandonar el derecho…

The Sociological Review, 2023

This article introduces the concept of 'coloniality of anti-corruption' to help situate and descr... more This article introduces the concept of 'coloniality of anti-corruption' to help situate and describe contemporary US anti-corruption policies aimed at Puerto Rico. The aim of the concept of coloniality of anti-corruption is to underscore corruption's inextricable relationship to race, class, gender, and other colonial power relations. The article argues that US interventions with the Puerto Rican government, along with its distribution of disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane María (2017) and subsequent earthquakes (2020), are best understood against the backdrop of a long history of corruption narrative implemented by the US. This is a narrative that seeks to legitimate US's colonial and capitalist expansion in Puerto Rico. To demonstrate this, the article explores the application of anti-corruption narratives by the Trump administration to justify its disaster relief policies for Puerto Rico. In particular, the article focuses on Trump's tweets describing Puerto Rican politicians as 'corrupt' and Puerto Rico as 'geography of fraud.' In doing so, the article provides a theoretical account of the uses of corruption and anti-corruption discourses to justify colonial and capitalist's global endeavors. It also illustrates how anti-corruption policies reproduce the idea of the non-white other as the corrupt subject and denotes the humanitarian consequences of such policies.

Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, 2024

This article explores how Puerto Rico's anticorruption laws have spurred the development of a new... more This article explores how Puerto Rico's anticorruption laws have spurred the development of a new market for public procurement. This market enables significant investments in platforms, websites, training and educational materials, and consulting services to aid compliance with anticorruption legislations. This has given rise to an emerging economic sector where consulting, law, and technology firms thrive. This article aims to elucidate how the Puerto Rican government's commodification of anticorruption and anti-fraud interventions, and its outsourcing to consulting firms can be understood as part of a colonial regime of permission which normalized corruption and capital accumulation through wealth extraction. Through four examples of anticorruption public procurementanticorruption legislation, post-Hurricane María recovery, and economic assistance during the COVID-19 pandemicit demonstrates that wealth extraction is a key driver behind these anticorruption laws, ultimately creating an anticorruption market.

Latino Studies

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico on 7 January 2020, adding a new episode to the mult... more A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico on 7 January 2020, adding a new episode to the multilayered political, economic, and humanitarian crisis affecting the island since 2006. This article demonstrates how the recovery efforts and management of the emergency constitute a state crime. The analysis draws from governmental and journalistic investigation and engages with legal and critical discourse analysis to provide a criminological and sociolegal analysis of state crimes in Puerto Rico-which feature prominently in US colonial and racialized history and anticorruption policies in PR-and of the genealogy of colonial violence that generates these and other legalized and state-facilitated harms. The article analyzes legally contrived states of exception and executive orders used to manage the earthquake emergency, the cases of corruption and criminal negligence (so salient in the public conscience that structural critiques of incompetent, unethical, and extractive governance have been coalesced by popular movements under the hashtag #wandalismo), the legislative public hearing on the case of the government hoarding and stalling distribution of disaster supplies, and the anticorruption mobilizations of January 2020. The article articulates the timeliness and urgency of prioritizing research and theorizing of state crimes within the burgeoning field of Latina/o/x criminology.

Sociology Compass, 2023

The scholarship on crimes of the powerful encompasses a critical examination of social harms, and... more The scholarship on crimes of the powerful encompasses a critical examination of social harms, and crimes perpetrated by privately or publicly operated businesses and corporations, the state, international organizations, elites, as well as the state-mediated administrative and political responses to these crimes. Going beyond state-centric definitions of crime and deviance, this scholarship emphasizes studying power and the harmful and criminogenic operations of the neoliberal-capitalism. However, this scholarship has overlooked the systemic examination of these crimes in the Global South, Latin America and the Caribbean, and their impact on racialized, gendered, and other marginalized communities. This article aims to contribute to this scholarship by providing an overview of the current developments in the scholarship on crimes of the powerful and proposing some future research areas for Latin America and the Caribbean. Thus, the article aims to demonstrate that the Latin American and Caribbean experiences with crimes of the powerful can expand our understanding of the social harms generated by powerful organizations and actors and magnify the analytical and methodological reach of this critical scholarship.

Critical Sociology , 2023

The US and Puerto Rican governments’ anti-corruption and anti-fraud legislation and policies exac... more The US and Puerto Rican governments’ anti-corruption and anti-fraud legislation and policies exacerbated the socio-economic impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemic in Puerto Rico (PR). This article demonstrates how anti-corruption interventions prevented those in most need from receiving the economic benefits of the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program and other unemployment insurance benefits. Analyzing this specific instance of anti-corruption and anti-fraud interventions amid the COVID-19 pandemic allows for a deeper examination of how colonial interventions undermined PR’s capacity to handle the pandemic, exacerbated its socio-economic impact and created an unequal recovery. Thus, the article illustrates the contradictions of anti-corruption as punitive governance and the way in which a specific notion of corruption is reproduced through governmental actions, legal practices, and policies. Altogether, this article aims to contribute to the discussion on how colonial and punitive anti-corruption interventions enhance social exclusion, disproportionately harm racialized communities, and undermine people’s capacity to address period of crisis.

OÑATI SOCIO-LEGAL SERIES, 2023

This paper engages in a sociolegal analysis of the anti-corruption legislation enacted by the Pue... more This paper engages in a sociolegal analysis of the anti-corruption legislation enacted by the Puerto Rican Government in the aftermath of hurricane María (2017). It pays particular attention to the implementation and sociolegal impact of Act 2 of January 4, 2018, entitled, "The Anti-Corruption Code for the New Puerto Rico" and the creation of a Registry of Persons Convicted of Corruption. The rationale behind the Act and the Registry is to enforce transparency, open governance, and help the Puerto Rican government in its efforts to eradicate public corruption. Conversely, this paper argues that these reforms have introduce a punitive approach to anti-corruption in PR. The paper suggests Act 2 and the Registry had have a dual outcome: 1) a punitive approach to corruption that harm people in precarious positions, and 2) normalize the structural dynamic enabling corruption of the powerful. Thus, this paper intends to illustrate the contradictions in anti-corruption as punitive governance, and the way in which a specific image of corruption is reproduced through governmental actions, legal practices, and discourses.

Governmental responses to the COVID-19 global pandemic have generated numerous constitutionals, p... more Governmental responses to the COVID-19 global pandemic have generated numerous constitutionals, policy, legal, and political-economic debates. Scholarly engagements with the sociolegal and policy consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have been dominated by discussion on the role of emergency powers, the suspension of individual civil liberties, the suspension of economic rules in order to guarantee economic survival, and social regulation of public spaces and of workplaces. This paper aims to explore how a critical sociolegal scholarship can contribute to a more sophisticated understanding of the role of law in creating the unequal conditions that propitiated the COVID-19 pandemic and that might enable further crises. This introduction offers a roadmap for theorizing the limits of law, the operationalization of emergency powers and the different policies implemented by global south and north countries in response to the pandemic. This introduction is structured as follow: (1) provides a general overview of the law and society tradition and its engagement with the COVID-19 pandemic; (2) engages with three key consequences of the pandemic, labor, and the lockdown; colonial implications; and the limits of law; (3) introduces the papers in this special issue; (4) sketches a proposal for the critical sociolegal scholarship of law and crises. 1 | INTRODUCTION What is the role of law in establishing the conditions that produce pandemics? Can law help prevent future pandemics? At a most obvious level, these questions direct our attention to

Law and Policy , 2022

This paper explores how the use of emergency powers by the US and Puerto Rican governments exacer... more This paper explores how the use of emergency powers by the US and Puerto Rican governments exacerbated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and manufactured the conditions for furthering the multilayered economic, legal, political, and humanitarian crisis affecting Puerto Rico since 2006. The paper discusses three cases. First, it examines how the multiple declarations of the state of emergency, and its constant renewals, produced contradictory public health policies. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the Puerto Rican government has issued over 90 executive orders aimed at addressing the emergency, producing an unclear, contradictory, and unequal emergency management policy. Second, the paper focuses on the impact of the passing of Law 35 on April 5, 2020, which imposed severe penalties on those who disobeyed executive orders. As a result, hundreds of Puerto Ricans were arrested, fined, and incarcerated for violating the issued order. Third, the paper studies how, citing the presence of corruption, the Puerto Rican government implemented anti-corruption and anti-fraud policies that made it more difficult for those most in need of itmainly poor and racialized individuals, as well as immigrants and working women-to access Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. Thus, the paper argues that emergency policies designed to address the pandemic, punitive governance, and anti-corruption and anti-fraud policies undermined Puerto Rico's capacity to handle the pandemic, exacerbated its impact, and created an unequal recovery scenario.

Critical Criminology

This paper shows how the Puerto Rican government has used punitive governance to deal with three ... more This paper shows how the Puerto Rican government has used punitive governance to deal with three important reactions to the multilayered crisis affecting Puerto Rico since 2006: socioenvironmental mobilizations; anti-austerity mobilizations; and anticorruption mobilizations. The paper proposes a threefold analysis. Firstly, it provides a brief overview of the Puerto Rican economic and financial crisis, the neoliberal solutions to the crisis, and its consequences. Secondly, the paper expands on the intertwined / intertwining relationship between punitive governance, colonialism, and criminal law. Thirdly, the paper analyzes the process of criminalization of the socioenvironmental, anti-austerity, and anticorruption mobilizations resisting colonial abandonment. Two strategies will be discussed: (1) the uses of criminal law to limit freedom of speech and protests and (2) repression and the systemic deployment of state violence against protestors. The state's violent reactions to sociopolitical mobilizations are part of a long history of criminalizing and repressive practices that must be understood against the backdrop of US colonial history in Puerto Rico.

Diálogos de Saberes, (53), 181-204, 2020

This paper analyses the role of law in the mobilizations for reparation, restoration, and recogni... more This paper analyses the role of law in the mobilizations for reparation, restoration, and recognition of historical injuries and violent legacies caused by colonialism, slavery and racism in the State members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). By emphasizing on the CARICOM requests for reparation and restitution, this paper addresses the following three objectives: 1) to expose how the effects of colonial violence are interpreted; 2) to identify who are the main actors and what are the claims arising from these Caribbean mobilizations; 3) to analyze the uses of law implemented by this mobilization and the legal and political positions assumed by the European states. The paper proposes a sociolegal analysis of the legal mobilizations in postcolonial Caribbean countries. This overview of the CARICOM mobilization for reparation and justice will allow us to establish a dialogue about the role of postcolonial states in the process of memorialization of a violent colonial past and about the possibility of decolonial justices in postcolonial Caribbean states.

This article provides a criminological analysis of the extraction, consumption, and disposal of c... more This article provides a criminological analysis of the extraction, consumption, and disposal of coal in the Caribbean and the global south. It looks at how the transnational corporation Applied Energy System (AES) and its 454-megawatt coal-fired electric power plant in Puerto Rico has manufactured a transnational network of environmental harm and violence. The paper aims to demonstrate how coloniality, law, and state-corporate deviance enable the coal sector-a habitual environmental offender-to engage in systemic harm across different jurisdictions and states of the global south. To do so, we engage with the work of scholars in the green criminology (treadmill of production), state-corporate crimes (crimes of development), and crimes of the powerful (Ecocide and Carbon Criminal) traditions. Furthermore, this article briefly describes the stories of resistance taking place in Puerto Rico. In doing so, the article describes the criminogenic practices behind this fossil fuel industry, and how it has taken advantage of colonial practices, thus enhancing the historical harm manufactured by modernity and replicated within the neoliberal economy.

The South Atlantic Quarterly

The South Atlantic Quarterly , 2022

Fraud Crypto-Colonialism, Climate Crisis, and Dispossession in the Global South This dossier exam... more Fraud Crypto-Colonialism, Climate Crisis, and Dispossession in the Global South This dossier examines the current sociopolitical, economic, and legal experiences with the implementation of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency in Latin America and the Caribbean. This dossier looks at how the Puerto Rican and Salvadorian governments, in their efforts to insert their countries into global financial markets and capitalist circuits to tackle economic crisis and poverty, have implemented a series of neoliberal legislation, deregulations, and tax and monetary policies to attract techno-capitalists to their respective countries. The policies' sociopolitical and economic consequences are hidden within often embellished tropes of tropicality and paradisiacal lands of endless opportunity for entrepreneurs and techno-capitalists. The aim of this dossier is to critically interrogate how legislation and policies promoting the establishment of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency in El Salvador and Puerto Rico have exacerbated already existing population vulnerabilities, socioeconomic and financial crises, and the climate crisis. Thus, the papers in this dossier demonstrate the contested nature of the implementation of these technologies in the global South, and how they have become unsuccessful technological fixes to long-lasting economic and financial crises, inequalities, and natural disasters. Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency are relatively new technologies. Cryptocurrencies emerged in the aftermath of the global 2008 financial crisis and are a digital representation of economic value (Crandall 2019).

Puerto Rico's (PR) recent history (from 2016 to 2020) and its experience with a continuity of cri... more Puerto Rico's (PR) recent history (from 2016 to 2020) and its experience with a continuity of crises and disasters demonstrate the normalization of the use of the state of exception and executive orders to deal with threats to public safety and security. This paper looks at the United States and PR governmental imposition of the state of exception to: address the economic crisis; administer the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria (2017); police the anti-corruption mobilizations that ousted Governor Ricardo Rosselló in the summer of 2019; respond to the recent earthquakes (2019/2020) in the southern region of the Island, and to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. As a whole, my analysis shows how this normalization of exceptionality, and the militarization of policing during periods of "emergency" instead of guarantying public safety and security, creates the conditions for further waves of disaster.

State Crime Journal , 2021

The CoVId-19 global pandemic brings about a new episode in the multi-lay- ered political, economi... more The CoVId-19 global pandemic brings about a new episode in the multi-lay- ered political, economic and humanitarian crisis affecting Puerto Rico since 2006. The 14-years-long crisis has been marked by the U.S. and P.R. governments’ imposition of a permanent state of exception to deal with an economic crisis, bankruptcy, hurricanes, swarms of earthquakes and a pandemic. This paper argues that uses of the state of excep- tion and executive orders created a regime of permission for corruption, state-corporate crimes and human rights violations, while exacerbating the impact of the pandemic, and manufacturing the conditions for further disasters. The paper engages in a sociole- gal analysis of the cases of corruption and state-corporate crimes in the procurement of CoVId-19 test-kits and medical equipment, and the role of the pharmaceutical corpora- tions in undermining PR’s capacity to react to the CoVId-19 pandemic.

Nacla, 2020

Successive governments in Puerto Rico have relied on the state of emergency and executive orders,... more Successive governments in Puerto Rico have relied on the state of emergency and executive orders, eroding democracy and exacerbating structural inequality.

Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy , 2019

This paper analyzes the laws and policies employed by the Puerto Rican government to address the ... more This paper analyzes the laws and policies employed by the Puerto Rican government to address the economic and financial crisis that has been affecting Puerto Rico since 2005. This analysis is built upon the concept of the internal state of exception; a concept that aims to provide a better understanding of the correlation between neoliberalism, colonialism, economy, and law. This paper proposes: 1) a depiction of the state of exception and its uses as an economic and financial crisis management dispositive; 2) an exposition of the Puerto Rican government's uses of the internal state of exception as a dispositive to tackle the eco nomic and financial crisis between 2005 and 2016; and 3) an analysis of the uses of the inter nal state of exception by the Puerto Rican government in 2017. Thus, this paper reinterprets the uses of the state of exception as a strategy to manage economic and fiscal crises from a colonial and global south experience and proposes a new understanding of this legal and political paradigm.

A sociolegal analysis of the sources of Puerto Rico's fiscal and economic crisis points to the us... more A sociolegal analysis of the sources of Puerto Rico's fiscal and economic crisis points to the use of the colonial state of exception as an economic development policy facilitating the creation of a tax-haven-like economy and normalizing a series of a colonial-state-corporate crimes. The Puerto Rican people need to hold those who generated the crisis accountable both politically and legally. They must continue mobilizing and promoting the repolitici-zation of recovery efforts by not paying the public debt, taking legal action against financial predators and corrupt politicians, clawing back fees and refusing to pay any additional fees, giving more importance to the human rights of Puerto Ricans than to the rights of bondholders and vulture funds, and initiating a process of decolonization that will allow them to make decisions about their future. Un análisis sociolegal de los orígenes de la crisis fiscal y económica de Puerto Rico apunta al uso del estado de excepción colonial como una política de desarrollo económico que facilita la creación de una economía parecida a un paraíso fiscal y normaliza una serie de crímenes estado-coloniales y corporativos. El pueblo puertorriqueño debe responsabili-zar a quienes generaron la crisis, tanto política como legalmente. Deben continuar movi-lizando y promoviendo la repolitización de los esfuerzos de reactivación al no pagar la deuda pública, emprender acciones legales contra depredadores financieros y políticos cor-ruptos, recuperar tarifas y negarse a pagar tarifas adicionales, dando más importancia a los derechos humanos de los puertorriqueños que a los derechos de los portadores de bonos y fondos buitres, e iniciar un proceso de descolonización que les permita tomar decisiones sobre su futuro.

Caribbean Voices. Special issue Puerto Rican Crises, 11(1), 857-890, 2019

Emociones revolucionarias: poniendo en crisis "la crisis" de Puerto Rico Los y las habitantes de ... more Emociones revolucionarias: poniendo en crisis "la crisis" de Puerto Rico Los y las habitantes de este archipiélago tenemos una larga historia de resistencias para defender nuestros derechos al territorio, al agua y el aire limpio, al alimento y nuestra capacidad de producirlo, a la salud y las prácticas que la promueven, a la educación formal pública y gratuita, a ser personas, a ser pueblo; hemos defendido nuestros derechos a vivir en comunidad y al acceso a viviendas seguras, a ser tal y como decidamos ser rompiendo las imposiciones patriarcales y heteronormativas; hemos defendido (aun dentro de la misma lógica del capitalismo que nos ahoga) nuestro derecho al trabajo digno y justo; hemos luchado para crear y mantener culturas propias; hemos luchado para existir, para vivir. Hoy somos herederas de todas estas luchas. (Mariolga Reyes Cruz, 2018) En este número especial de Voces del Caribe, ofrecemos ensayos académicos, textos literarios y piezas plásticas producidas por profesores y profesoras del Departamento de Humanidades de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Mayagüez. Concebimos esta publicación como parte de los esfuerzos por intensificar, hacer proliferar y enlazar las resistencias, múltiples y diversas, que ya se gestan, día tras día y contra todo pronóstico, en Puerto Rico, tanto en el archipiélago como en sus diásporas. Nos proponemos aportar desde la universidad pública y desde las

Walter Benjamin y el estado de excepción verdadero: Aproximaciones a una teoría de la Justicia ex... more Walter Benjamin y el estado de excepción verdadero: Aproximaciones a una teoría de la Justicia explora el desarrollo del estado de excepción en los trabajos de Walter Benjamin. Para ello, el texto propone un análisis en dos partes: 1) expone el paradigma del estado de excepción normalizado y sus articulaciones como dispositivo para el manejo de la economía (vida), el derecho (excepcionalidad) y la política (violencia) y 2) expone el paradigma del estado de excepción verdadero como dispositivo que propicia la ruptura con las formas de hacer y pensar la Política. Así, mostramos que el estado de excepción verdadero comienza a ser comprendido cuando se lee desde la experiencia de la tradición de los oprimidos.

This chapter aims to apply Pearce’s (1976) critical methodology and Marxist theoretical framewor... more This chapter aims to apply Pearce’s (1976) critical methodology and Marxist theoretical framework to the development of the concept of colonial state crimes. By doing this, the chapter will show how, even though Pearce does not develop a colonial perspective in his analysis of the crimes of the powerful, his theory and his methodological emphasis in the study of what has been normalized and naturalized constitute a foundational contribution to the development of the colonial perspective in the analysis of state crimes. This colonial approach will be developed in three sections: 1) an exposition of the concepts of the crime of the powerful and state crimes; 2) an exploration of the relation between the anticolonial tradition and state crimes; and 3) a discussion of how the concept of colonial state crimes can illuminate the Global South’s experiences with regard to state violence and criminality. The intention is to show how Pearce has contributed to the development of the colonial state crimes concept, allowing for a better understanding of colonial violence.

[Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception and Colonialism : Remarks on the Ontopolitical Dimension of ... more [Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception and Colonialism : Remarks on the Ontopolitical Dimension of Exceptionality]. In Insatuti, Xabier, Nogueroles, Marta and Vergara, Jorge (eds.) Nuevos diálogos de Pensamiento Crítico. Madrid: Ediciones Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 31-57.

in Poynting, Scott and Whyte, David (eds.) Counter-terrorism and State Political Violence: The 'War on Terror' as Terror. London: Routledge, 156-177. , 2012

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80 grados , 2019

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Aunque con frecuencia se consideren nimias, las islas ocupan un lugar central en la historia de l... more Aunque con frecuencia se consideren nimias, las islas ocupan un lugar central en la historia de la modernidad euro-estadounidense. Alternadamente representadas en multiplicidad de tradiciones y medios como espacios aislados, salvajes, paradisíacos e incivilizados, en las islas encontraron su alteridad los procesos “continentales” modernos de colonización, juridificación y expansión capitalista. Si a ello añadimos la comodificación del excremento, estamos ante un panorama fundamental para comprender la relación entre el imperialismo euro-estadounidense y el tabú, lo indecible y lo descartable. Se trata de las Islas de Guano, experiencia poco conocida de la historia reciente en Latinoamérica, el Caribe y el Pacífico, que permite mostrar la conjunción entre derecho, colonización, capitalismo y representaciones de la insularidad en el siglo XIX. La historia de dichas islas denota el afán incesante por la producción de riquezas, el control geopolítico, la explotación del medioambiente y del trabajo humano, y la redefinición de la espacialidad insular, todo trastocado en ley. Nuestro trabajo se organiza en tres apartados: (1) los procesos que convirtieron al guano en el fertilizante por excelencia del siglo XIX; (2) las estrategias jurídicas aplicadas por EEUU para legitimar la toma de territorios en el Caribe, el Atlántico y el Pacífico para explotar depósitos de guano; (3) los efectos sociopolíticos de esta experiencia en la política colonial estadounidense en Puerto Rico y el Caribe.

80grados.net

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Dialogues in Human Geography

Recent Puerto Rican history has been marked by a continuity of disasters and a multilayered polit... more Recent Puerto Rican history has been marked by a continuity of disasters and a multilayered political, financial, economic, and humanitarian crisis. From the public debt crisis in 2006; to the Puerto Rico (PR) government's bankruptcy in 2016; to the approval of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) by the US Congress in 2016; to the devastating Hurricanes Irma and María in 2017; to the earthquakes in 2020; to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, PR's recent history is defined by an "economy of catastrophe or a catastrophe by attrition" (Zambrana, 2021, p. 54). It is precisely in this context, that Rocío Zambrana's Colonial Debts aims to provide a decolonial and feminist reading of the public debt crisis, and the political economy of coloniality in PR. To do so, Zambrana engages with critical theory, decolonial feminist thought, the work of Maurizio Lazzarato, and various Puerto Rican scholars and activist groups. Debt is described as a social, economic, political-and I would add legal-relationship. According to Zambrana, debt operates as an apparatus of capture, predations, Book review forum Dialogues in Human Geography 1-4

Crime, Law, Social Change, 2021

Journal of White-Collar and Corporate Crimes, 2020

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Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law: , 2009