Michaeline A. Crichlow extends the contemporary critique of
development projects by examining the political and discursive
relationship of the state to the land-based working people, or
"smallholders," in modern Jamaica. The first book of its kind,
Negotiating Caribbean Freedom does for Jamaican historiography and
sociology what Akhil Gupta's PostColonial Developments did for
studies of India. Michaeline A. Crichlow gives us an incredibly
nuanced discussion of how development dominates the lives of the
subsistance peasantry, not through force, but through the
instrumentalization of social relationships that were once ends in
themselves. For example, what were once effective agricultural
practices-embedded in the every day lives of smallholders all over
the island-have, in the interest of serving international captial,
been bureaucratized to the point that they are untenable to support
the livelihoods of smallholders. Not content to measure the success
or failure of development to deliver on its promises, she discloses
both the continuities and differences between development projects
of very different political regimes and helps to establish why
smallholders support development projects even when those projects
fail to address their needs.
General
| Imprint: |
Lexington Books
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Caribbean Studies |
| Release date: |
2005 |
| First published: |
February 2005 |
| Authors: |
Michaeline A. Crichlow
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 153 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
273 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-7391-0914-4 |
| Categories: |
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| LSN: |
0-7391-0914-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780739109144 |
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