Published in Society + Space

Special Issue - “The Decolonial Geographies of Puerto Rico 2019 Summer Protest: A Forum”

In this paper, Professor Atiles identifies understandings of corruption and anticorruption in the Puerto Rican Summer: 1) colonial corruption and anticorruption policies implemented by the US government in PR; 2) corruption as a form of governmentality, and the Puerto Rican government’s anticorruption policies that focus on petty corruption, while ignoring the corruption of the powerful; 3) and decolonial approaches to corruption and/or the Puerto Rican Summer of 2019 as forms of decolonial justice.

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