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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kingston :
University of the West Indies Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.