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Research Article| July 01 2022 Introduction: Decoding Crypto-Paradises: Fraud, Crypto-Colonialism, Climate Crisis, and Dispossession in the Global South Jose Atiles Jose Atiles Jose Atiles is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research and publications focus primarily on the sociolegal and criminological implications of US colonialism in Puerto Rico. Currently, he is working on his book manuscript, "Law in/as Crisis: Emergency Powers, Corruption, and Resistance in Puerto Rico." The book analyzes the role of law, the state of emergency, and anticorruption mobilizations in the current multilayered crisis of Puerto Rico: economic instability and insurmountable debt since 2006, devastation generated by hurricanes Irma and María in 2017, a swarm of earthquakes in January of 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2022) 121 (3): 594–599. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-9826004 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jose Atiles; Introduction: Decoding Crypto-Paradises: Fraud, Crypto-Colonialism, Climate Crisis, and Dispossession in the Global South. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 2022; 121 (3): 594–599. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-9826004 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsSouth Atlantic Quarterly Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF.