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Obika Gray - Demeaned but Empowered, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

Demeaned but Empowered

The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica

Av Obika Gray

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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 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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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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This is certainly among the best written of the recent manuscripts that I have read in Caribbean studies or, indeed, in any discipline. Gray is a wordsmith and constructs his evidence and arguments with a style and finesse not often seen in the social sciences. This makes it eminently accessible to a wider field of readers than the usual... political science text. - Brian Meeks, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

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