Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Exceptional Violence by Deborah A. Thomas This ethnography of violence in Jamaica repudiates cultural explanations for violence, arguing that its roots lie in deep racialized and gendered inequalities produced in imperial slave economies. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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, Jamaicas national media, works of popular culture, notions of respectability, practices of punishment and discipline during slavery, the effects of intensified migration, and Jamaicas 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. Notes This ethnography of violence in Jamaica repudiates cultural explanations for violence, arguing that its roots lie in deep racialized and gendered inequalities produced in imperial slave economies Author Biography Deborah A. Thomas is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica and a co-editor of Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness, both also published by Duke University Press. Table of Contents Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Moving Bodies 11. Dead Bodies, 2004–2005 232. Deviant Bodies, 2005/1945 533. Spectacular Bodies, 1816/2007 874. Public Bodies, 2003 1255. Resurrected Bodies, 1963/2007 173CODA Repairing Bodies 221Notes 239References 257Index 289 Review "Over the course of five chapters, Thomas embraces a variety of methodological approaches, including sociological and historical analysis, anthropological tools, and literary criticism, to explore how citizenship and violence have been understood--or, as she aptly puts it, embodied--by Jamaicans since the end of the colonial era. She uses numerous sources, including newspaper articles, government reports, oral history, music, film, and fiction, to investigate widely varying topics, from the eruption of gang warfare in the small Jamaican community of Jacks Hill and a public debate over nudity in the statue Redemption Song, to the official cultural policy of the Jamaican state and the Rastafarian experience." Anne Rush, University of Maryland, H-Empire "In this supremely engaging book, Deborah A. Thomas does to death a number of procrustean, often racist, preconceptions about violence in Jamaica--and, by extension, other post-colonies. Arguing persuasively against culturalist explanations, she seeks to make sense of both the incidence and the preoccupation with violence here--for its exceptionality, that is, in all senses of the term--by placing it in its proper historical context, one that turns out to be highly complex, deeply entangled, temporally disjunctive. But she does more than this. Thomas opens up a window in the very soul of Jamaica and its diasporas, interrogating the ways in which Jamaicans today envisage and make their futures, how new, embodied forms of subjectivity and citizenship are being practiced and performed, how, indeed, we may understand the role of culture and representation in these processes. Exceptional Violence is the kind of book from which every anthropologist, every intelligent reader--without exception--will learn something worth knowing. And thinking deeply about." John Comaroff, University of Chicago and the American Bar Foundation "Deborah Thomas Exceptional Violence is at once methodologically astute, richly researched, and critically engaged. In reframing the historical object of violence in Jamaica she enables us to see hitherto obscured dimensions of its embodied constitution as social practice and social imaginary, its relation to citizenship and gender, the state and community, racial subjectivities, and transnational migrations. It is a fine achievement." David Scott, Columbia University Promotional This ethnography of violence in Jamaica repudiates cultural explanations for violence, arguing that its roots lie in deep racialized and gendered inequalities produced in imperial slave economies Review Quote "What is most impressive about this ethnography is Thomass ability to consistently link her work to an existing body of scholarship in the various fields on which she draws in developing her analysis. This is a well-researched book that offers a thorough engagement with relevant scholarship. It is a key part of the global conversation on violence and reparations in the African Diaspora." - Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Details ISBN0822350866 Author Deborah A. Thomas Short Title EXCEPTIONAL VIOLENCE Language English ISBN-10 0822350866 ISBN-13 9780822350866 Media Book Format Paperback Pages 320 Year 2011 Publisher Duke University Press Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Birth 1966 UK Release Date 2011-10-05 AU Release Date 2011-10-05 NZ Release Date 2011-10-05 US Release Date 2011-10-05 Publication Date 2011-10-05 DEWEY 303.6097292 Illustrations 11 illustrations Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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ISBN-13: 9780822350866
Book Title: Exceptional Violence
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Anthropology, History
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Weight: 449 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Deborah A. Thomas
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Paperback
