(Post-)colonial Archipelagos

Hans-Jürgen Burchardt is Full Professor of International and Intersocietal Relations at the University of Kassel.Johanna Leinius is Postdoctoral Researcher in the program “Ecologies of Social Cohesion” at the University of Kassel.

• Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsPart 1: An archipelagic view on (post-)colonial legaciesChapter 1: Hans-Jürgen Burchardt and Johanna Leinius: Of archipelagic connections and postcolonial dividesChapter 2: Johanna Leinius: The paradoxes of (post-)colonial archipelagos – a proposal for postcolonizing comparative researchChapter 3: Josep M. Fradera: Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and the crisis of the great Empire: global dynamics and indigenous developmentPart 2: The past and present of the political economy and authority in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the PhilippinesChapter 4: Antonio Santamaría García: Spain in Cuba. Policies, structures, economic practices and colonial relationsChapter 5: Jacqueline Laguardia Martínez: The political economy of contemporary CubaChapter 6: Emilio Pantojas-García: Puerto Rico’s colonial legacies and post-colonial constellations: Economy, society and polityChapter 7: Ian Seda Irizarry and Argeo Quiñones: The political economy of contemporary Puerto RicoChapter 8: Alvin A. Camba and Maria Isabel Aguilar: Sui generis: The political economy of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial regimeChapter 9: Teresa R. Melgar: The political economy of power in contemporary Philippines: Patterns of continuity and changePart 3: The past and present of the hierarchization of difference and power in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the PhilippinesChapter 10: Javiher Gutiérrez Forte and Janet Iglesias Cruz: Spanish colonization’s mark on CubaChapter 11: Jenny Morín Nenoff: Race, gender and social structure in contemporary Cuba: between colonial legacy and current structural transformationsChapter 12: Milagros Denis-Rosario: The perpetual colony: historical memory and inequalities in Puerto Rican societyChapter 13: Miguel A. Rivera-Quiñones: Post-colonial colonialism in Puerto Rico: Inequality, capital and social transfersChapter 14: María Dolores Elizalde: Colonial government and social organization in the Spanish Philippines: Interactions and rupturesChapter 15: Cristina Cielo: Social inequalities and political organization in the PhilippinesPart 4: The (post-)colonial legacies of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines: A comparative viewChapter 16: Michael Zeuske: Legacies of slavery and people of African descent in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the CaribbeanChapter 17: Jochen Kemner: Patterns of work, stratification and social prestige in the late Spanish colonial EmpireChapter 18: Hans-Jürgen Burchardt: Lessons learned: The legacies of Spanish colonialismNotesContributor BiosIndex

"(Post-) Colonial Archipelagos: Comparing the Legacies of Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines is an important contribution to postcolonial studies in general and to the colonial legacies of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines in particular. . . Far from establishing a discouraging panorama, the pluridiversity of voices contained in this collective volume make it clear that the reversal of these perennial injustices and the establishment of a world that contains a heterogeneity of worlds is only possible through a collective, solidaritybased, transatlantic, and intersectional project."—Forum for Inter-American Research (FIAR)