ISBN:
9789766401535
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (442 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Gray, Obika Demeaned but Empowered : The Social Power of the Urban Poor of Jamaica
DDC:
305.5/69/097292
Keywords:
Urban poor ; Jamaica ; Political activity
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Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Rethinking Power -- 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 -- 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 -- The Ordeal of Social Reconstruction in Jamaica -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Rethinking Power -- 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 -- 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 -- The Ordeal of Social Reconstruction in Jamaica -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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