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Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo is a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean with a particular focus on the global circulation of radical ideas from the standpoint of working-class intellectual communities.
Books:
- The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (Forthcoming: Duke University Press, Nov. 5, 2021).
- Voces libertarias: Orígenes del anarquismo en Puerto Rico. Ediciones CCC: Santurce, 2013; 2nd ed., Madrid: Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo, 2014; 3rd ed., Lajas, P. R.: Editorial Akelarre, 2015.
Edited Volumes:
- Without Borders or Limits: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Anarchist Studies. Co-edited with Nathan J. Jun. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
- “A Party of Ex-Convicts: Bolívar Ochart, Incarceration, and the Socialist Party in Puerto Rico, 1917-1928,” Hispanic American Historical Review vol. 101, no. 1 (February 2021): 73-99.
- “Mateo and Juana: Racial Silencing, Epistemic Violence, and Counterarchives in Puerto Rican Labor History,” International Labor and Working-Class History Journal vol. 96 (Fall 2019): 103-121.
- “Imagining Resistance: Organizing the Puerto Rican Southern Agricultural Strike of 1905.” Caribbean Studies Journal vol. 43, no. 2 (July-December 2015): 33-82.“Imagining Resistance: Organizing the Puerto Rican Southern Agricultural Strike of 1905.” Caribbean Studies Journal vol. 43, no. 2 (July-December 2015): 33-82.
- “Labor History’s Transnational Turn: Rethinking Latin American and Caribbean Migrant Workers.” Latin American Perspectives vol. 42, no. 4 (July 2015): 117-122.
Book Chapters:
- “Luisa Capetillo en La Habana: Sus escritos en la prensa anarquista cubana, 1910-1914.” In Amor y anarquía: Los escritos de Luisa Capetillo, edited by Julio Ramos. Mayagüez: Editorial Educación Emergente, Forthcoming, 2021.
- “Efemeridad, poder y olvido de los (contra)archivos anarquistas en Puerto Rico.” Reflexiones en torno a los archivos en el estudio del anarquismo en América y España.” Edited by Ivanna Margarucci, Martín Albornoz, Eduardo Godoy Sepúlveda, and Juan Cruz López. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Eleuterio, Forthcoming, 2021.
- “The Anarchist Imaginary: Max Nettlau and Latin America, 1890-1934.” In Writing Revolution: Hispanic Anarchist Print Culture and the United States, edited by Montse Feu-López and Chris J Castañeda. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019.
- “The Puerto Rican Experiment: Crisis, Colonialism, and Popular Response.” In The End of the World as We Know It? Crisis, Resistance, and the Age of Austerity, edited by Deric Shannon. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2014.
- “Interpreting, Deconstructing, and Deciphering Ideograms of Rebellion: An Approach to the History of Reading in Puerto Rico’s Anarchist Groups at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.” In Without Borders or Limits: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Anarchist Studies, edited by Meléndez Badillo, Jorell and Nathan Jun, 57-75. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
Other Academic Publications:
- “La Calle Fortaleza in Puerto Rico’s Primavera de Verano,” co-authored with Aurora Santiago Ortiz, in Decolonial Geographies of Puerto Rico’s 2019 Summer Protests, online forum edited by Marisol LeBrón and Joaquín Villanueva, Society and Space Journal (February 25, 2020): https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/la-calle-fortaleza-in-puerto-ricos-primavera-de-verano
- “Commemorating May Day in Puerto Rico,” NACLA Report on the Americas vol. 51, no. 3 (September 2019): 301-305.
- “Puerto Rico’s Multiple Solidarities: Emergent Landscapes and the Geographies of Protest,” co-authored with Aurora Santiago-Ortiz, The Abusable Past by Radical History Review (July 22, 2019): https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/?p=3152.
- “Los ecos del silencio: Dimensiones locales y aspiraciones globales del periódico Voz humana.” Revista La Brecha vol. 2, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 23-27.
- “Voces libertarias: The Economic, Political, and Social Discourse of Puerto Rican Anarchism, 1900-1917.” Theory in Action: The Journal of the Transformative Studies Institute vol. 5, no. 4 (2012): 6-12.
- “Expresiones anarquistas dentro de la prensa y la cultura proletaria puertorriqueña de principios del siglo XX.” Kálathos: Revista Transdisciplinaria Metro-Inter vol. 6, no. 1, (2012): http://kalathos.metro.inter.edu/Num_11/expresiones%20anarquistas.pdf.
- “El cabildo secular en Puerto Rico: Siglos XVI-XVIII.”Kálathos: Revista Transdisciplinaria Metro-Inter vol. 5 , no. 1 (2011): http://kalathos.metro.inter.edu/Num_9/Cabildo%20Secular.pdf.
Publications Under Review:
- “Anarchism and Its Infrastructures of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Latin America,” Routledge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America, edited by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Graciela Montaldo (under contract with Routledge). Chapter currently under review.
Articles Under Preparation:
- “Prelude to Exile: The Impact of Ángel Rama and Marta Traba in Puerto Rico’s Intellectual Communities, 1970-1973.” Currently conducting research.
- “Following the Revolution: The Transnational Activism of Blanca and Juan Moncaleano in Cuba, Mexico, and the US-Mexican Borderlands.” Currently conducting research.
Book Projects:
- Puerto Rico: A National History. Under contract with Princeton University Press.
- Páginas libres: Breve antología del pensamiento anaquista en Puerto Rico, 1900-1919. Manuscript under review, Editorial Educación Emergente.
- Workers, Radicals, and Intellectuals Across Las Américas: A Transnational History. Conducting initial research for book manuscript.