Colonial Debts

Author : Rocío Zambrana
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478013198

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Colonial Debts by Rocío Zambrana Pdf

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 Colonial Debts Rocío 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 Construcción's actions, long-standing land rescue/occupation in the territory, to the July 2019 protests that ousted former governor Ricardo “Ricky” Rosselló, 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.

Author : Nicolas Barreyre,Nicolas Delalande
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030487942

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A World of Public Debts by Nicolas Barreyre,Nicolas Delalande Pdf

This book analyzes public debt from a political, historical, and global perspective. It demonstrates that public debt has been a defining feature in the construction of modern states, a main driver in the history of capitalism, and a potent geopolitical force. From revolutionary crisis to empire and the rise and fall of a post-war world order, the problem of debt has never been the sole purview of closed economic circles. This book offers a key to understanding the centrality of public debt today by revealing that political problems of public debt have and will continue to need a political response. Today’s tendency to consider public debt as a source of fragility or economic inefficiency misses the fact that, since the eighteenth century, public debts and capital markets have on many occasions been used by states to enforce their sovereignty and build their institutions, especially in times of war. It is nonetheless striking to observe that certain solutions that were used in the past to smooth out public debt crises (inflation, default, cancellation, or capital controls) were left out of the political framing of the recent crisis, therefore revealing how the balance of power between bondholders, taxpayers, pensioners, and wage-earners has evolved over the past 40 years. Today, as the Covid-19 pandemic opens up a dramatic new crisis, reconnecting the history of capitalism and that of democracy seems one of the most urgent intellectual and political tasks of our time. This global political history of public debt is a contribution to this debate and will be of interest to financial, economic, and political historians and researchers. Chapters 13 and 19 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Kris Manjapra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108425261

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Colonialism in Global Perspective by Kris Manjapra Pdf

A provocative, breath-taking, and concise relational history of colonialism over the past 500 years, from the dawn of the New World to the twenty-first century.

Author : Pierre Penet,Juan Flores Zendejas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198866350

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Sovereign Debt Diplomacies by Pierre Penet,Juan Flores Zendejas Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Sovereign Debt Diplomacies aims to revisit the meaning of sovereign debt in relation to colonial history and postcolonial developments. It offers three main contributions. The first contribution is historical. The volume historicises a research field that has so far focused primarily on the post-1980 years. A focus on colonial debt from the 19th century building of colonial empires to the decolonisation era in the 1960s-70s fills an important gap in recent debt historiographies. Economic historians have engaged with colonialism only reluctantly or en passant, giving credence to the idea that colonialism is not a development that deserves to be treated on its own. This has led to suboptimal developments in recent scholarship. The second contribution adds a 'law and society' dimension to studies of debt. The analytical payoff of the exercise is to capture the current developments and functional limits of debt contracting and adjudication in relation to the long-term political and sociological dynamics of sovereignty. Finally, Sovereign Debt Diplomacies imports insights from, and contributes to the body of research currently developed in the Humanities under the label 'colonial and postcolonial studies'. The emphasis on 'history from below' and focus on 'subaltern agency' usefully complement the traditional elite-perspective on financial imperialism favoured by the British school of empire history.

Author : Christopher Harker
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478012474

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Spacing Debt by Christopher Harker Pdf

In Spacing Debt Christopher Harker demonstrates that financial debt is as much a spatial phenomenon as it is a temporal and social one. Harker traces the emergence of debt in Ramallah after 2008 as part of the financialization of the Palestinian economy under Israeli settler colonialism. Debt contributes to processes through which Palestinians are kept economically unstable and subordinate. Harker draws extensively on residents' accounts of living with the explosion of personal debt to highlight the entanglement of consumer credit with other obligatory relations among family, friends, and institutions. He offers a new geographical theorization of debt, showing how debt affects urban space, including the movement of bodies through the city, localized economies, and the political violence associated with occupation. Bringing cultural and urban imaginaries into conversation with monetized debt, Harker shows how debt itself becomes a slow violence embedded into the everyday lives of citizens. However, debt is also a means through which Palestinians practice endurance, creatively adapting to life under occupation.

Author : Éric Toussaint
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781642590166

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The Debt System by Éric Toussaint Pdf

“A compelling explanation of the deep-seated mechanisms at work in the international credit system” from the coauthor of Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank (Counterfire). For as long as there have been rich nations and poor nations, debt has been a powerful force for maintaining the unequal relations between them. Treated as sacrosanct, immutable, and eternally binding, it has become the yoke of choice for imperial powers in the post-colonial world to enforce their subservience over the global south. In this ground-breaking history, renowned economist Éric Toussaint argues for a radical reversal of this balance of accounts through the repudiation of sovereign debt. “Since 2008 CADTM has campaigned for ‘a new doctrine of illegitimate, illegal, odious, and unsustainable debt’ cancellation. This doctrine includes considerations of whether the debtor state is democratic, whether it respects human rights, whether the debt is incurred within the framework of ‘structural adjustments’ (enforced austerity), and includes all debts incurred to pay back previous odious debts. On grounds of global social justice, The Debt System makes a strong case for this new doctrine.” —Against the Current “This work has much to commend it; it provides detailed analyses of the impact of indebtedness in several nations . . . The author shows that, contrary to orthodox arguments, debt repudiation can be both justified and successfully carried out. I recommend the book wholeheartedly.” —Counterfire

Author : Paul E. Lovejoy,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111871401

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Pawnship, Slavery, and Colonialism in Africa by Paul E. Lovejoy,Toyin Falola Pdf

Exploring the age-old institution of African debt,bondage, in which people are held as collateral in,lieu of debts that have been incurred, these,twenty essays look at the various effects of this,practice on such issues as kinship, gender and the,international slave trade. Continuing well into,the 1930s because of the economic demands enforced,by European colonial rule, pawnship and slavery in,the event of default on a loan has had a,particularly detrimental effect on women and,children, demonstrating the links between creditservility and gender in large parts of Africa.

Author : David Henley,Peter Boomgaard
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789812308467

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Credit and Debt in Indonesia, 860-1930 by David Henley,Peter Boomgaard Pdf

Credit and debt are practical concerns of all times and places. They are also increasingly important topics in economic history and the social sciences, from Marcel Mauss and the anthropology of the gift to the urgent quest for understanding of today's global credit crunch. This volume brings together eight essays on credit and debt in the history of Indonesia, where for centuries debt and debt bondage played central roles in the organization of society, and where efforts to combat 'usury' and free peasants from indebtedness were central to the ethical and nationalist movements of the late colonial period. Topics range from the inscriptions of ninth-century Java to the first global financial crisis in 1930, and from Islamic laws against the charging of interest to the role of Chinese temples and Dutch church charities as credit providers. The history of credit and debt in Indonesia is examined from a wide variety of perspectives - legal, institutional, and cultural as well as economic. Attention is paid to parallels and contrasts with more recent developments, including the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and Indonesia's rise to fame as a pioneer of the current global microfinance revolution.

Author : Dr. Karl Heinz Roth,Hartmut Rübner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800732582

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Repressed, Remitted, Rejected by Dr. Karl Heinz Roth,Hartmut Rübner Pdf

Since unification, the Federal Republic of Germany has made vaunted efforts to make amends for the crimes of the Third Reich. Yet it remains the case that the demands for restitution by many countries that were occupied during the Second World War are unresolved, and recent demands from Greece and Poland have only reignited old debates. This book reconstructs the German occupation of Poland and Greece and gives a thorough accounting of these debates. Working from the perspective of international law, it deepens the scholarly discourse around the issue, clarifying the ‘never-ending story’ of German reparations policy and making a principled call for further action. A compilation of primary sources comprising 125 annotated key texts (512 pages) on the complexity of reparations discussions covering the period between 1941 and the end of 2017 is available for free on the Berghahn Books website, doi: 10.3167/9781800732575.dd.

Author : Thomas Harding
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474621076

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White Debt by Thomas Harding Pdf

When Thomas Harding discovered that his family had profited from slavery, he set out to interrogate the choices of his ancestors and Britain's role in this terrible history. His investigation took him to Demerara (now Guyana), the site of an uprising by enslaved people in 1823, the largest in the British Empire and a key trigger in the abolition of slavery. Charting the dramatic build-up to this landmark event through the eyes of four people - an enslaved man, a missionary, a colonist, and a slaveholder - Harding lays bare the true impact of years of unimaginable cruelty and incredible courage and asks how those who benefitted from slavery can take responsibility for the White Debt.

Author : M. Ayhan Kose,Peter Nagle,Franziska Ohnsorge,Naotaka Sugawara
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464815454

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Global Waves of Debt by M. Ayhan Kose,Peter Nagle,Franziska Ohnsorge,Naotaka Sugawara Pdf

The global economy has experienced four waves of rapid debt accumulation over the past 50 years. The first three debt waves ended with financial crises in many emerging market and developing economies. During the current wave, which started in 2010, the increase in debt in these economies has already been larger, faster, and broader-based than in the previous three waves. Current low interest rates mitigate some of the risks associated with high debt. However, emerging market and developing economies are also confronted by weak growth prospects, mounting vulnerabilities, and elevated global risks. A menu of policy options is available to reduce the likelihood that the current debt wave will end in crisis and, if crises do take place, will alleviate their impact.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:248265417

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A Consolidation of the Constitution Acts 1867 to 1982 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Fenn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Finance
ISBN : UOM:39015051424573

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Fenn's Compendium of the English and Foreign Funds, Debts and Revenues of All Nations by Charles Fenn Pdf

Author : Jehu Mathews
Publisher : London : Longmans, Green
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OXFORD:N10605188

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A Colonist on the Colonial Question by Jehu Mathews Pdf

Author : Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Colonies
ISBN : UGA:32108010219288

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Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) Pdf