Demeaned but empowered :: the social power of the urban poor in Jamaica /

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 th...

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1. Verfasser: Gray, Obika, 1948-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, ©2004.
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Zusammenfassung: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."
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 429)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-411) and index.
ISBN:9781435611276
1435611276
9789766401535
9766401535