Demeaned but empowered : the social power of the urban poor in Jamaica /

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 th...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gray, Obika, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, ©2004.
Temas:
Urban poor > Political activity > Jamaica.
Patronage, Political > Jamaica.
Community power > Jamaica.
Crime > Jamaica.
Pauvres en milieu urbain > Activité politique > Jamaïque.
Favoritisme > Jamaïque.
Pouvoir communautaire > Jamaïque.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Community power
Crime
Patronage, Political
Social conditions
Urban poor > Political activity
Jamaica > Social conditions.
Jamaïque > Conditions sociales.
Jamaica
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rethinking power : political clientelism and political subordination in Jamaica
  • A fateful alliance
  • Fulcrums of power in the ghetto
  • Exile, space, moral culture and social identity in the ghetto
  • Badness-honour and the invigorated authority of the urban poor
  • A fettered freedom : warfare and solidarity in the ghetto
  • Crime, politics and moral culture
  • The struggle for benefits
  • Uncaptured rebels
  • Criminal self-organization and cultural extremism
  • The cultural contradictions of power : badness-honour and liberal democracy
  • Epilogue: The ordeal of social reconstruction in Jamaica.

Ejemplares similares