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Gray, Obika

 
9789766401535: Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9766401535 ISBN 13 : 9789766401535
Editeur : University of the West Indies Press, 2004

Synopsis

Obika Gray asserts that state power in Jamaica is predatory in its reach, incorporating contradictory social forces in an arrangement that is hierarchical, often brutal and ultimately debilitating to democracy. In this groundbreaking study, 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".

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À propos de l'auteur

Obika Gray is Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. He is author of Radicalism and Social Change in Jamaica, 1960-1972.

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Éditeur
University of the West Indies Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9766401535
ISBN 13 
9789766401535
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
448
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Personne responsable
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