L’Amérique du Nord: une histoire des identités et des solidarités

Abstract

failed protests also challenges the neoliberal logic. Finally, in the conclusion, the author looks at how land rescue or occupation can unfold in Puerto Rico. As such, she draws on Frantz Fanon and many other local authors to discuss decoloniality. After a brief summary of the previous chapters, Zambrana concludes with a reflection on how pessimism can be the site of hope. Although Zambrana warns us that the book is looking at a specific case and situation, I would like to disagree with her: this book’s reach goes beyond Puerto Rico. Colonial Debts is an in-depth philosophical reflection on how debt has been theorized by other scholars while engaging thoughtfully in conceptual work that offers important insights into how debt can be resisted and transformed. Reader-activists would want to read this book, especially anti-debt activists. Scholars of and on Puerto Rico would also be interested in having a different look at the colonial relation at play here through historical debt. This book might be about Puerto Rico, but the anti-debt movement, especially in relation to colonial dynamics, has reached far beyond it.