Johnson, Hume N.

Challenges to civil society : popular protest & governance in Jamaica / Hume N. Johnson. - Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press, 2011. - xxix, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Jamaican governance and citizen politics in context -- Bringing the civil in "civil society" back -- The beginnings of civil society in Jamaica -- Contesting the state: citizen politics in Jamaica -- We want justice: Jamaican protest politics in practice -- Performing protest in Jamaica: the mass media as stage -- Dons and donmanship: outlaw governance in civil society -- Protest politics: assessing responses, impacts and outcomes -- Conclusion.

9781604977820 1604977825

2011040694

016017759 Uk


Since 1962


Civil society--Jamaica.
Protest movements--Jamaica.
Political participation--Jamaica.
Public administration--Citizen participation.--Jamaica
Civil society.
Political participation.
Politics and government
Protest movements.
Public administration--Citizen participation.
B urgerliche Gesellschaft.
Protestbewegung.


Jamaica--Politics and government--1962-
Jamaica.
Jamaika.

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