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Demeaned but empowered : the social power of the urban poor of Jamaica /
Annotation Gray's central thesis asserts that the Jamaican state is a form of predatory state that incorporates contradictory social forces into an arrangement that is hierarchical, often brutal and ultimately debilitating to democracy. He introduces a series of constructs to support this argum...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Kingston :
University of the West Indies Press,
©2004.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Demeaned but empowered : |b the social power of the urban poor of Jamaica / |c Obika Gray. |
| 260 | |a Kingston : |b University of the West Indies Press, |c ©2004. | ||
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| 520 | 8 | |a Annotation Gray's central thesis asserts that the Jamaican state is a form of predatory state that incorporates contradictory social forces into an arrangement that is hierarchical, often brutal and ultimately debilitating to democracy. He introduces a series of constructs to support this argument, but the more interesting and novel theses are to be found in his vivid description of the social forces that resist the predatory state and how they have carved out a modicum of autonomy based on what he describes as an elaborate value system of "badness/honour." | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Rethinking Power; 2 A Fateful Alliance; 3 Fulcrums of Power in the Ghetto; 4 Exilic Space, Moral Culture and Social Identity in the Ghetto; 5 Badness-Honour and the Invigorated Authority of the Urban Poor; 6 A Fettered Freedom; 7 Crime, Politics and Moral Culture; 8 The Struggle for Benefits; 9 Uncaptured Rebels; 10 Criminal Self-Organization and Cultural Extremism; 11 The Cultural Contradictions of Power; The Ordeal of Social Reconstruction in Jamaica; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index. | |
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