The University of the West Indies Press
Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica
Obika Gray
Politics & Social Sciences
Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica
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Language
English
ISBN
9789766401535
Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Rethinking Power: Political Clientelism and Political Subordination in Jamaica
2. A Fateful Alliance
3. Fulcrums of Power in the Ghetto
4. Exilic Space, Moral Culture and Social Identity in the Ghetto
5. Badness-Honour and the Invigorated Authority of the Urban Poor
6. A Fettered Freedom: Warfare and Solidarity in the Ghetto
7. Crime, Politics and Moral Culture
8. The Struggle for Benefits
9. Uncaptured Rebels
10. Criminal Self-Organization and Cultural Extremism
11. The Cultural Contradictions of Power
Epilogue: The Ordeal of Social Reconstruction in Jamaica
Notes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Index
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