Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation - Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair

Informationen zum Autor Deborah A. Thomas Klappentext Deborah A. Thomas uses the 2010 military and police incursion into the Kingston, Jamaica, Tivoli Gardens neighborhood as a point of departure for theorizing the roots of contemporary state violence in Jamaica and other post-plantation societies. Zusammenfassung Deborah A. Thomas uses the 2010 military and police incursion into the Kingston! Jamaica! Tivoli Gardens neighborhood as a point of departure for theorizing the roots of contemporary state violence in Jamaica and other post-plantation societies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface  xi Introduction. Humanness in the Wake of the Plantation  1 1. Doubt  22 Interlude I. Interrogating Imperialism  67 2. Expectancy  88 Interlude II. Naming Names  133 3. Paranoia  151 Coda. The End of the World as We Know It  207 Acknowledgments  223 Notes  229 References  269 Index  293

Product details

• Authors: Deborah A. Thomas
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781478006695
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0669-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Karibik, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie