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Published: 22 November 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060178
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9
Published: 13 September 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5992-9
...Black Political Authority This chapter considers Astwood’s aspirations for the Dominican Republic within the context of the United States’ racial imaginary of Haiti and the whole island of Hispaniola, and it documents his struggle to assert his political authority. As consul, Astwood faced...
Published: 13 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059929-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5992-9
... This chapter analyzes the events surrounding the Dominican government’s accidental killing of the American citizen John J. Platt in 1885. It uses the case to argue that racial moral discourse drove the dialectic between US empire and Black political authority. Whereas the US government...
Published: 14 September 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375210-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7521-0
... This chapter explores the relationship between water infrastructure and political authority in Mumbai. Given that no one is quite sure who or what makes the water come, but everyone knows that it comes “because of politics,” much effort is made by local-level knowledge brokers (who tend...
Published: 16 May 2013
DOI: 10.1215/9780822395614-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9561-4
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By Rivke Jaffe
Published: 22 November 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9
... aesthetics affective atmospheres political authority sensorial politics ...
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By Rivke Jaffe
Published: 22 November 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060178-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9
... The introduction outlines the book’s goal: to develop, through an analysis of Jamaica’s system of donmanship, a new perspective on political authority. It argues that dons’ authority should be understood as shaped both in and beyond the state: their successful claims to authority involve...
Series: New Americanists
Published: 07 October 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387121-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8712-1
Published: 22 November 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060178-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9
... This chapter explains how dons’ authority connects to Jamaica’s system of electoral politics. Political authority relies on the recognition of a ruler’s rightness, both by the ruled and by other rulers. The “horizontal” recognition conferred by elected politicians contributes to dons’ positions...
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By Rivke Jaffe
Published: 22 November 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060178-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9
... The conclusion extends the general analysis outlined throughout this book. While donmanship represents a historically and culturally specific type of political authority, the conceptualization developed in this book can offer insights into the entanglement of violent autocratic rule...
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By Rivke Jaffe
Published: 22 November 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060178-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9
... political histories are contested, rewritten, and mobilized to explain present-day conditions. Popular music and everyday narrative memory-making act as sites where political authority is imagined and reimagined, where official celebrations of past rulers are reworked, and where alternative histories...
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By Rivke Jaffe
Published: 22 November 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060178-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9
... This chapter discusses the spatial dimension of dons’ political authority, emphasizing the centrality of urban space, place, borders, and mobilities. Achieving authority involves enacting spatial relations between rulers and ruled that normalize the political arrangement between them...
Book Chapter

By Rivke Jaffe
Published: 22 November 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9
Book Chapter

By Rivke Jaffe
Published: 22 November 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9
Book Chapter

By Rivke Jaffe
Published: 22 November 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9
Book Chapter

By Rivke Jaffe
Published: 22 November 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060178-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9
Book Chapter

By Rivke Jaffe
Published: 22 November 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060178-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9
Book Chapter

By Rivke Jaffe
Published: 22 November 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060178-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9
Book Chapter

By Rivke Jaffe
Published: 22 November 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9
Book Chapter

By Rivke Jaffe
Published: 22 November 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9431-9