Negotiating Caribbean freedom : peasants and the state in development / Michaeline A. Crichlow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crichlow, Michaeline A., author.

Series:

Caribbean studies (Lanham, Md.)

Caribbean Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation--Jamaica.

Political participation.

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Jamaica.

Agriculture.

Agriculture and state--Jamaica.

Agriculture and state.

Farms, Small--Jamaica.

Farms, Small.

Peasants--Jamaica.

Peasants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Negotiating Caribbean Freedom examines how development programs in Jamaica lock the state and rural smallholders into a relationship that fulfills the agendas of both constituents. It further shows how development policies end up bureaucratizing agrarian relations.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Introduction; Acknowledgments; 1 Development's Agrarian Culture; 2 A Plantation Political Context: Of Peasants, State and Capital 1838-1938; 3 Forging Nationals out of Rural Working Peoples; 4 In the Name of the ""Small Man"": ""Heavy Manners"" and the Creation of New Subjectivities; 5 Maneuvers of an Embattled State: Neoliberal Privatization and the Reconstitution of New Rural Subjects; 6 Inseparable Autonomies: Of State Spaces and People Spaces; Epilogue Re-making the State and Citizen: The Specter of Formal Exclusions

BibliographyIndex; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-32470-6

0-7391-0914-6

0-7391-5809-0

OCLC:

854977842