Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Facts and documents relating to the alleged Rebellion in Jamaica, and the measures of repression: including notes of the trial of Mr. Gordon
Author: Facts and Documents Relating to the Alleged Rebellion in Jamaica
Author: Jamaica CommitteeFacts and Documents Relating to the Alleged Rebellion in Jamaica, and the Measures of Repression;
Author: Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Sir Sidney LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 2170
Book Description
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 2086
Book Description
Citizenship from Below
Author: Mimi ShellerPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822349531
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Citizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the interplay between the state, the body, race, and sexuality. Mimi Sheller offers a new theory of "citizenship from below" to describe the contest between "proper" spaces of legitimate high politics and the disavowed politics of lived embodiment. While acknowledging the internal contradictions and damaging exclusions of subaltern self-empowerment, Sheller roots out from beneath the historical archive traces of a deeper freedom, one expressed through bodily performances, familial relationships, cultivation of the land, and sacred worship. Attending to the hidden linkages among intimate realms and the public sphere, Sheller explores specific struggles for freedom, including women's political activism in Jamaica; the role of discourses of "manhood" in the making of free subjects, soldiers, and citizens; the fiercely ethnonationalist discourses that excluded South Asian and African indentured workers; the sexual politics of the low-bass beats and "bottoms up" moves in the dancehall; and the struggle for reproductive and LGBT rights and against homophobia in the contemporary Caribbean. Through her creative use of archival sources and emphasis on the connections between intimacy, violence, and citizenship, Sheller enriches critical theories of embodied freedom, sexual citizenship, and erotic agency in all post-slavery societies.
Political and Social Disturbances in the West Indies
Author: Frank CundallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgetown (Guyana)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Insurgent Empire
Author: Priyamvada GopalPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1784784141
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Much has been written on the how colonial subjects took up British and European ideas and turned them against empire when making claims to freedom and self-determination. The possibility of reverse influence has been largely overlooked. Insurgent Empire shows how Britain's enslaved and colonial subjects were not merely victims of empire and subsequent beneficiaries of its crises of conscience but also agents whose resistance both contributed to their own liberation and shaped British ideas about freedom and who could be free. Insurgent Empire examines dissent over the question of empire in Britain and shows how it was influenced by rebellions and resistance in the colonies from the West Indies and East Africa to Egypt and India. It also shows how a pivotal role in fomenting dissent was played by anti-colonial campaigners based in London at the heart of the empire.
The Impossible Machine
Author: Adam SitzePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047202910X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Adam Sitze meticulously traces the origins of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission back to two well-established instruments of colonial and imperial governance: the jurisprudence of indemnity and the commission of inquiry. This genealogy provides a fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of the TRC’s legal, political, and cultural importance. The TRC’s genius, Sitze contends, is not the substitution of “forgiving” restorative justice for “strict” legal justice but rather the innovative adaptation of colonial law, sovereignty, and government. However, this approach also contains a potential liability: if the TRC’s origins are forgotten, the very enterprise intended to overturn the jurisprudence of colonial rule may perpetuate it. In sum, Sitze proposes a provocative new means by which South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission should be understood and evaluated.