José A. Laguarta Ramírez

Student Fellow

José A. Laguarta Ramírez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He obtained his B.A. in Anthropology from Columbia University, his J.D. from the University of Puerto Rico, and his M.Phil. from The Graduate Center. He has taught at Lehman College, the University of Puerto Rico Secondary School, and Pace University, and worked as a researcher in diverse academic and professional settings. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at The Graduate Center. His main areas of interest are social movements and Latin America.

Participating Years

2014–2015

After Debt: New Forms of Dependency, Obligation, Risk, and Credit

‘After Debt’ imagines a world beyond debt and pursues it as a research agenda across a broad range of intellectual inquiry. How have economic failures been transformed into personal identities, often dividing those deemed “at risk” from those capable of assuming risk? How might we understand histories of debt within genealogies of the fiscal military nation-state? What alternate meanings of dependency, obligation, risk, and credit have people produced within and against debt regimes, such as those enforced by structural adjustment?