Demeaned but Empowered : The Social Power of the Urban Poor of Jamaica.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (442 pages)
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.