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Sto caricando le informazioni... Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica (edizione 2004)di Obika Gray (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. In his second book-length study of Jamaican politics, Gray focuses on the urban poor (that is to say, the residents of Kingston's slums) and the ways in which they seek to preserve their dignity in an environment deeply hostile to them. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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