"Exceptional Violence" is a sophisticated examination of
postcolonial state formation in the Caribbean, considered across
time and space, from the period of imperial New World expansion to
the contemporary neoliberal era, and from neighborhood dynamics in
Kingston to transnational socioeconomic and political fields.
Deborah A. Thomas takes as her immediate focus violence in Jamaica
and representations of that violence as they circulate within the
country and abroad. Through an analysis encompassing Kingston
communities, Jamaica's national media, works of popular culture,
notions of respectability, practices of punishment and discipline
during slavery, the effects of intensified migration, and Jamaica's
national cultural policy, Thomas develops several arguments.
Violence in Jamaica is the complicated result of a structural
history of colonialism and underdevelopment, not a cultural
characteristic passed from one generation to the next. Citizenship
is embodied; scholars must be attentive to how race, gender, and
sexuality have been made to matter over time. Suggesting that
anthropologists in the United States should engage more deeply with
history and political economy, Thomas mobilizes a concept of
reparations as a framework for thinking, a rubric useful in its
emphasis on structural and historical lineages.
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2011 |
| First published: |
September 2011 |
| Authors: |
Deborah A. Thomas
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
320 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-5086-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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| LSN: |
0-8223-5086-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780822350866 |
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