Jose Atiles
Biographic Data
| ID | 310619 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jose Atiles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jose |
| FAMILY NAME | Atiles |
| SIGNATURE | ATILES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5711-7101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Emergency Rule, Colonial Power
PROMESA, enacted in 2016 to address Puerto Rico’s fiscal crisis, established an unelected Financial Oversight and Management Board with broad authority over the territory’s finances and governance. Over the past decade, this framework has evolved into a system of colonial emergency rule that prioritizes creditors and external capital while limiting democratic participation.
Vacationing on a Tax Haven: Law, Visitor Economy, and Offshore Finance in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico has recently emerged as one of the fastest-growing tourist destinations in the Caribbean, a shift accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic and promoted by the local government as a response to prolonged economic crisis, austerity, and socioenvironmental disasters. This article argues that Puerto Rico’s recent expansion of tourism is a legal extension of its offshore financial diversification project. It examines how tax incentives and…
Funding the colonial tax haven: Unpacking the role of the paycheck protection program in Puerto Rico’s state-corporate crimes
Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change
Secrecy jurisdictions play a crucial role in the legal framework perpetuating climate change. This paper demonstrates how these jurisdictions sustain the dynamics of climate change by enabling capital accumulation rooted in environmental degradation. A regulatory approach to law and climate change must address the global nature of the legal structure that upholds exploitative and ecocidal social relationships. This paper argues that secrecy juris…
Enacting transparency: Activist-scholarship and the legal mobilisations for the right to access information in Puerto Rico
This article examines the Puerto Rican legal mobilisations for the right to access public information through the lenses of activist-scholarship. Based on ethnographic research with Puerto Rican scholars, lawyers and civil society organisations, the article explores how they have used the legal system to demand greater transparency and accountability from the Puerto Rican government and the Federal Oversight and Management Board (FOMB). First, it…
Dispossession by production: The pharmaceutical industry and Covid-19 resource shortages in India and Puerto Rico
Who owns Puerto Rico’s beaches ? Law, extractivism, and the political economy of paradise
Economic Sanctions as State Crime: Empire, Law and the United States’ Economic Warfare in Latin America
This paper argues that US unilateral economic and financial sanctions on Latin American countries constitute state crime. Although critical scholarship on sanctions has shown that these coercive measures contravene international law and harm the populations of targeted countries, criminological scholarship has neglected the analysis of sanctions. Focusing on sanctions as structural violence, this paper explores how the power dynamics in imposing …
Ecocidal impunity? Wars and the profitability of the chemical corporation in the global south
This article interrogates the impact that the codification of the International Crime of Ecocide may have in addressing and curtailing the environmental harms produced by the chemical industry in Latin America and the Global South. We contend that the International Crime of Ecocide should challenge the historical narratives that have informed international law and its relationship with colonialism. The role that Monsanto/Bayer plays in ecocidal p…
Anti-corruption legislation in Puerto Rico: A sociolegal study of the registry of persons convicted of corruption
This paper engages in a sociolegal analysis of the anti-corruption legislation enacted by the Puerto Rican Government in the aftermath of Maria (2017). The paper 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 t…
Covid-19 and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program in Puerto Rico: Anti-Corruption, Fraud Prevention, and Punishment
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 …
Crimes of the powerful in Latin America and the Caribbean: Toward a research agenda
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 criminogeni…
Swarm of earthquakes, #Wandalismo and anticorruption mobilizations in Puerto Rico: Latinx criminology and state crimes
Reproducing crises: Understanding the role of law in the Covid‐19 global pandemic
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 publ…
Emergency powers, anti‐corruption, and policy failures during the Covid‐19 pandemic in Puerto Rico
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 pu…
Coloniality of anti-corruption: Whiteness, disasters, and the US anti-corruption policies in Puerto Rico
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 disaste…
On colonial exceptionality, neoliberal coloniality, and legal interruptions
Coal Criminals: Crimes of the Powerful, Extractivism and Historical Harm in the Global South
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…
Punitive Governance and the Criminalization of Socioenvironmental, Anti-Austerity, and Anticorruption Mobilizations in Puerto Rico
The Paradise Performs
This article develops a sociolegal analysis of the legislation and tax policies implemented by the US and Puerto Rico (PR) governments to incentivize venture capitalists and cryptocurrency investors to relocate to PR. Specifically, the article looks at the role that Act 60 of 2019 played in attracting blockchain proponents and cryptocurrency investors to PR. By analyzing this tax policy and the governmental official discourses, this article demon…
Exceptionality and Colonial-State-Corporate Crimes in the Puerto Rican Fiscal and Economic Crisis
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 repolit…
State of Exception, Law and Economy: A socio-legal approach to the economy of exception in an era of crisis
Departing from a critical understanding of the relationship between state, law and power, we propose a critical overview of the concept of the state of exception developed by Giorgio Agamben. We emphasise the idea that the principle of legal exceptionality is not as merely used in response to the current crisis in capitalism, but is an enduring and core technique of power used by states to reproduce economic and colonial power relations. Thus, th…
Colonial State Crimes and the Caricom Mobilization for Reparation and Justice
Colonial rule in the Caribbean was based on the normalization, legalization and naturalization of violence, genocide, slavery, torture, dispossession and plunder, to the point that the victims of these colonial state crimes and their descendants continue to suffer the consequences. This article has a twofold aim: firstly, it discusses the Caribbean experiences with colonial state crimes and secondly, it analyses the Caribbean Community and Common…
Colonial State Terror in Puerto Rico: A Research Agenda
This article puts forth the concept of colonial state terror as a category for the analysis of political violence in the Puerto Rican colonial conflict by US and Puerto Rican governments and pro-state organizations. To this end, the article is divided into four parts. First, it provides a short historical overview of Puerto Rico's colonial history; second, it explores US colonialism through the concept of the colonial state of exception; third, i…
Nixon, Rob (2011), Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Tradicionalmente, las sociedades del Norte Global han asociado las crisis ecológicas y medioambientales con eventos de gran envergadura, espectaculares, de gran visibilidad y/o repercusión mediática. Algunos casos que ejemplifican dicha percepción pueden ser los “accidentes” nucleares en Chernóbil y Fukushima, los derrames de petróleo causados por el Prestige en el 2002 en las costas europeas y el causado por el Deepwater Horizon en el Golfo de M…
Exceptionality and Colonial-State-Corporate Crimes in the Puerto Rican Fiscal and Economic Crisis
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 repolit…
Counter-insurgency goes to university: The militarisation of policing in the Puerto Rico student strikes
This article presents a case study of the recent student strike at the University of Puerto Rico (held between 2010 and 2011) and the militarisation of the campus that followed. The strike has been a significant site of resistance to the imposition of neo-liberal structural adjustment in Puerto Rico (PR). The response to the strike by the Government of Puerto Rico and the university administration has been characterised by a range of highly repre…
The Paradise Performs
This article develops a sociolegal analysis of the legislation and tax policies implemented by the US and Puerto Rico (PR) governments to incentivize venture capitalists and cryptocurrency investors to relocate to PR. Specifically, the article looks at the role that Act 60 of 2019 played in attracting blockchain proponents and cryptocurrency investors to PR. By analyzing this tax policy and the governmental official discourses, this article demon…
Pro-State Violence in Puerto Rico: Cuban and Puerto Rican Right-Wing Terrorism from the 1960s to the 1990s
Of course, the good terrorists are those who respond to the interests of the State, those who become allied with them. Bear in mind that the governments of Puerto Rico and the US very much feared
Emergency powers, anti‐corruption, and policy failures during the Covid‐19 pandemic in Puerto Rico
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 pu…
Colonial State Crimes and the Caricom Mobilization for Reparation and Justice
Colonial rule in the Caribbean was based on the normalization, legalization and naturalization of violence, genocide, slavery, torture, dispossession and plunder, to the point that the victims of these colonial state crimes and their descendants continue to suffer the consequences. This article has a twofold aim: firstly, it discusses the Caribbean experiences with colonial state crimes and secondly, it analyses the Caribbean Community and Common…
Colonial State Terror in Puerto Rico: A Research Agenda
This article puts forth the concept of colonial state terror as a category for the analysis of political violence in the Puerto Rican colonial conflict by US and Puerto Rican governments and pro-state organizations. To this end, the article is divided into four parts. First, it provides a short historical overview of Puerto Rico's colonial history; second, it explores US colonialism through the concept of the colonial state of exception; third, i…
Colonialismo ambiental, criminalización y resistencias: Las movilizaciones puertorriqueñas por la justicia ambiental en el siglo xxi
Las movilizaciones por la justicia ambiental se han constituido en una parte fundamental de las movilizaciones sociopolíticas y anticoloniales puertorriqueñas desde mediados del siglo xx. Ante esta realidad sociopolítica, y prestando especial atención a los procesos de criminalización desplegados por los EEUU en la era pos 9/11, el artículo desarrolla tres áreas analíticas: 1) una reflexión sobre el colonialismo ambiental en el contexto de Puerto…
Crimes of the powerful in Latin America and the Caribbean: Toward a research agenda
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 criminogeni…
Reproducing crises: Understanding the role of law in the Covid‐19 global pandemic
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 publ…
Coal Criminals: Crimes of the Powerful, Extractivism and Historical Harm in the Global South
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…
Punitive Governance and the Criminalization of Socioenvironmental, Anti-Austerity, and Anticorruption Mobilizations in Puerto Rico
Neoliberalism, Law, and Strikes: Law as an Instrument of Repression at the University of Puerto Rico, 2010-2011
The exercise of power in the student strikes at the University of Puerto Rico in 2010-2011 was determined in part by Puerto Rico's colonial condition, and at the same time the strikes influenced the ideological construction of the country's colonial conflict. The law was used by both sides as a strategy for advancing their interests. At the same time, the criminalization and state terrorism employed in response to the strikes were the same strate…
Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change
Secrecy jurisdictions play a crucial role in the legal framework perpetuating climate change. This paper demonstrates how these jurisdictions sustain the dynamics of climate change by enabling capital accumulation rooted in environmental degradation. A regulatory approach to law and climate change must address the global nature of the legal structure that upholds exploitative and ecocidal social relationships. This paper argues that secrecy juris…
Coloniality of anti-corruption: Whiteness, disasters, and the US anti-corruption policies in Puerto Rico
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 disaste…
Aguilar Fernández, Paloma, Políticas de la memoria y memorias de la política. El caso español en perspectiva comparada
A partir de la decada de 1990, el tema de la memoria historica, la memoria colectiva y social, asi como las concepciones plurales y conflictivas de la misma, junto con el tema de la justicia transicional, se han convertido en uno de los ambitos de debate socio‐juridico‐politico y academico mas importante. El incremento en la produccion academica tiene sus origenes en la incipiente “democratizacion” y/o paso de multiples paises de America Latina, …
McEvoy, Kieran; McGregor, Lorna, Transitional Justice from below. Grassroots Activism and the Struggle for Change
El texto editado por Kieran McEvoy y Lorna McGregor representa un esfuerzo por repensar, redefinir e introducir un debate en el seno de la literatura y de las corrientes de estudio sobre la justicia transicional. Generalmente, la justicia transicional ha sido pensada como un conglomerado de estrategias juridico‐politicas y socio‐economicas implementadas para lidiar con las violaciones de los derechos humanos, con la violencia politica del pasado …
Counter-insurgency goes to university: The militarisation of policing in the Puerto Rico student strikes
This article presents a case study of the recent student strike at the University of Puerto Rico (held between 2010 and 2011) and the militarisation of the campus that followed. The strike has been a significant site of resistance to the imposition of neo-liberal structural adjustment in Puerto Rico (PR). The response to the strike by the Government of Puerto Rico and the university administration has been characterised by a range of highly repre…
Pro-State Violence in Puerto Rico: Cuban and Puerto Rican Right-Wing Terrorism from the 1960s to the 1990s
Of course, the good terrorists are those who respond to the interests of the State, those who become allied with them. Bear in mind that the governments of Puerto Rico and the US very much feared
Nixon, Rob (2011), Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Tradicionalmente, las sociedades del Norte Global han asociado las crisis ecológicas y medioambientales con eventos de gran envergadura, espectaculares, de gran visibilidad y/o repercusión mediática. Algunos casos que ejemplifican dicha percepción pueden ser los “accidentes” nucleares en Chernóbil y Fukushima, los derrames de petróleo causados por el Prestige en el 2002 en las costas europeas y el causado por el Deepwater Horizon en el Golfo de M…
Neoliberalism, Law, and Strikes: Law as an Instrument of Repression at the University of Puerto Rico, 2010-2011
The exercise of power in the student strikes at the University of Puerto Rico in 2010-2011 was determined in part by Puerto Rico's colonial condition, and at the same time the strikes influenced the ideological construction of the country's colonial conflict. The law was used by both sides as a strategy for advancing their interests. At the same time, the criminalization and state terrorism employed in response to the strikes were the same strate…
Colonialismo ambiental, criminalización y resistencias: Las movilizaciones puertorriqueñas por la justicia ambiental en el siglo xxi
Las movilizaciones por la justicia ambiental se han constituido en una parte fundamental de las movilizaciones sociopolíticas y anticoloniales puertorriqueñas desde mediados del siglo xx. Ante esta realidad sociopolítica, y prestando especial atención a los procesos de criminalización desplegados por los EEUU en la era pos 9/11, el artículo desarrolla tres áreas analíticas: 1) una reflexión sobre el colonialismo ambiental en el contexto de Puerto…
Colonial State Terror in Puerto Rico: A Research Agenda
This article puts forth the concept of colonial state terror as a category for the analysis of political violence in the Puerto Rican colonial conflict by US and Puerto Rican governments and pro-state organizations. To this end, the article is divided into four parts. First, it provides a short historical overview of Puerto Rico's colonial history; second, it explores US colonialism through the concept of the colonial state of exception; third, i…
State of Exception, Law and Economy: A socio-legal approach to the economy of exception in an era of crisis
Departing from a critical understanding of the relationship between state, law and power, we propose a critical overview of the concept of the state of exception developed by Giorgio Agamben. We emphasise the idea that the principle of legal exceptionality is not as merely used in response to the current crisis in capitalism, but is an enduring and core technique of power used by states to reproduce economic and colonial power relations. Thus, th…
Colonial State Crimes and the Caricom Mobilization for Reparation and Justice
Colonial rule in the Caribbean was based on the normalization, legalization and naturalization of violence, genocide, slavery, torture, dispossession and plunder, to the point that the victims of these colonial state crimes and their descendants continue to suffer the consequences. This article has a twofold aim: firstly, it discusses the Caribbean experiences with colonial state crimes and secondly, it analyses the Caribbean Community and Common…
Exceptionality and Colonial-State-Corporate Crimes in the Puerto Rican Fiscal and Economic Crisis
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 repolit…
On colonial exceptionality, neoliberal coloniality, and legal interruptions
Coal Criminals: Crimes of the Powerful, Extractivism and Historical Harm in the Global South
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…
Punitive Governance and the Criminalization of Socioenvironmental, Anti-Austerity, and Anticorruption Mobilizations in Puerto Rico
The Paradise Performs
This article develops a sociolegal analysis of the legislation and tax policies implemented by the US and Puerto Rico (PR) governments to incentivize venture capitalists and cryptocurrency investors to relocate to PR. Specifically, the article looks at the role that Act 60 of 2019 played in attracting blockchain proponents and cryptocurrency investors to PR. By analyzing this tax policy and the governmental official discourses, this article demon…
Crimes of the powerful in Latin America and the Caribbean: Toward a research agenda
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 criminogeni…
Swarm of earthquakes, #Wandalismo and anticorruption mobilizations in Puerto Rico: Latinx criminology and state crimes
Reproducing crises: Understanding the role of law in the Covid‐19 global pandemic
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 publ…
Emergency powers, anti‐corruption, and policy failures during the Covid‐19 pandemic in Puerto Rico
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 pu…
Coloniality of anti-corruption: Whiteness, disasters, and the US anti-corruption policies in Puerto Rico
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 disaste…
Anti-corruption legislation in Puerto Rico: A sociolegal study of the registry of persons convicted of corruption
This paper engages in a sociolegal analysis of the anti-corruption legislation enacted by the Puerto Rican Government in the aftermath of Maria (2017). The paper 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 t…
Covid-19 and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program in Puerto Rico: Anti-Corruption, Fraud Prevention, and Punishment
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 …
Funding the colonial tax haven: Unpacking the role of the paycheck protection program in Puerto Rico’s state-corporate crimes
Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change
Secrecy jurisdictions play a crucial role in the legal framework perpetuating climate change. This paper demonstrates how these jurisdictions sustain the dynamics of climate change by enabling capital accumulation rooted in environmental degradation. A regulatory approach to law and climate change must address the global nature of the legal structure that upholds exploitative and ecocidal social relationships. This paper argues that secrecy juris…
Enacting transparency: Activist-scholarship and the legal mobilisations for the right to access information in Puerto Rico
This article examines the Puerto Rican legal mobilisations for the right to access public information through the lenses of activist-scholarship. Based on ethnographic research with Puerto Rican scholars, lawyers and civil society organisations, the article explores how they have used the legal system to demand greater transparency and accountability from the Puerto Rican government and the Federal Oversight and Management Board (FOMB). First, it…
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