TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas, Deborah A.,
TI  - Exceptional violence: embodied citizenship in transnational Jamaica 
SN  - 9780822350682
AV  - F1874 .T466 2011
U1  - 364.15097292 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Durham, NC
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Violent crimes
KW  - Jamaica
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Slavery
KW  - History
KW  - Reparations for historical injustices
KW  - fast
KW  - Gewaltkriminalit at
KW  - gnd
KW  - Sklaverei
KW  - Gewalt
KW  - V ald
KW  - sao
KW  - historia
KW  - sociala aspekter
KW  - Slaveri
KW  - Jamaika
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Dead bodies, 2004-2005 -- Deviant bodies, 2005/1945 -- Spectacular bodies, 1816/2007 -- Public bodies, 2003 -- Resurrected bodies, 1963/2007 -- Coda. Repairing bodies
N2  - "Exceptional Violence is a sophisticated examination of postcolonial state formation in the Caribbean, considered across time and space, from the period of imperial New World expansion to the contemporary neoliberal era, and from neighborhood dynamics in Kingston to transnational socioeconomic and political fields. Deborah A. Thomas takes as her immediate focus violence in Jamaica and representations of that violence as they circulate within the country and abroad. Through an analysis encompassing Kingston communities, Jamaica's national media, works of popular culture, notions of respectability, practices of punishment and discipline during slavery, the effects of intensified migration, and Jamaica's national cultural policy, Thomas develops several arguments. Violence in Jamaica is the complicated result of a structural history of colonialism and underdevelopment, not a cultural characteristic passed from one generation to the next. Citizenship is embodied; scholars must be attentive to how race, gender, and sexuality have been made to matter over time. Suggesting that anthropologists in the United States should engage more deeply with history and political economy, Thomas mobilizes a concept of reparations as a framework for thinking, a rubric useful in its emphasis on structural and historical lineages"--Back cover
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=36736
UR  - http://0-dx.doi.org.oasis.unisa.ac.za/10.1215/9780822394556
ER  -