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Demeaned but Empowered : The Social Power of the Urban Poor of Jamaica.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Kingston : University of the West Indies Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (442 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789766401535
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Demeaned but EmpoweredDDC classification:
  • 305.5/69/097292
LOC classification:
  • HV4063.A5 -- G73 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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