...Matthew Chin In this article, the author complicates the current positioning of Jamaica within international discourses as exceptionally homophobic by focusing on the island in the 1970s as a site through which to understand how the struggle for sexual agency among subjects of same sex desire...

... in contemporary cities. Their combination implies the emergence of a new mode of urban security governance, a form of political and economic rationality that is speculative both in its underlying logic and in its everyday implementation. Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 gentrification Jamaica...

... routes between designated locations, linking places in space, narratives link events in time. Some recent non-fictional accounts of displacement uti- lize both mapping and storytelling strategies; for example, the autobiograph- ical writing of Jamaica Kincaid and Bessie Head. Enunciating a politics...

.... I left from Jamaica. It was February. The weather was bad in the north. The plane, just after it crossed Jamaica, landed again at Montego Bay. We stayed there for many hours. A hotel lunch was served by sulky, aggressive Negro waiters who had got too used to waiting on tourists and despised...

... longtime involvement in the teaching of West Indian literature and dates back to my first serendipitous visit to the island in 1994. I was spending three months in Jamaica, doing research in cultural poli- tics in the Anglophone Caribbean. Having come to understand the West Indies through the reggae...

... under which the emergence of a politics of same-sex desire becomes possible in postindependence Jamaica. In his analysis, he focuses on the formation of the gay freedom movement (GFM), the first self-proclaimed gay activist organization in the anglophone Caribbean. Chin illustrates how the GFM came...

.... 2011. I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Thomas, Deborah A. 2011. Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica. Durham, N.C.: Duke...

... entrepreneurial scheme in which he and Coughlin will start their own business. This, of course, takes money, and here the film devises a truly ingenious, not to mention photo- genic version of the work ethic. Brian’s brainstorm is that the two of them should go down to Jamaica, where they can live...

... our own stories to testify to problems we know are pervasive, and we end up expressing genuine feelings of frustration, pain, and, crucially, hope. Carla Moore, artist, activist, and lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Mona Unit in Jamaica, poses the question, “What...

... through her account of “speculative policing,” a future-oriented policing that navigates between calculable (risky) and incalculable (uncertain) futures. Jaffe develops her analysis through ethnographic fieldwork in Jamaica, where the government initiated and used a state of emergency to establish...

... a meaningful, and increasingly popular, role in cross-border Mexican music culture. In their basic structure, sonidos are similar to the sound systems that have prospered across the world, from Jamaica to Colombia, from the South Bronx to the Congo, to anywhere else there is music, a few loudspeakers...

... . Cosmopolitan fictions: Ethics, politics, and global change in the works of Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Jamaica Kincaid, and J. M. Coetzee . New York: Routledge. Tester, Keith. 2001 . Compassion, morality, and the media . Buckingham, U.K.: Open University Press. Tompkins, Jane. 1985...

... been collapsed or recuperated in the context of the Volvo ad. This, I would argue, has to do with the way advertising works in contemporary American society. Discussing an ad for tourism to Jamaica in Boxed In: The Culnsre of W,Mark Crispin Miller argues that it subtly arouses viewers’ fears...

... Press. Stolzoff, Norman C. 2000. Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Sutton-Smith, Brian, Jay Mechling, Thomas W. Johnson, and Felicia R. McMa...

..., Jamaica, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Canada, and the United States. Participation in lotteries links Sri Lankans to a practice that has prospered as much in the West as in Sri Lanka. As of 1989, lotteries were played in seventy- nine countries, where players gambled some $154 million each day. New York...

... be closer to what Jamaica Kincaid describes in A Small Place as the distribution of what is left to rot, where toxici- ties accumulate, and who is subject to them. Recursive histories display rework- ings that don’t look or feel quite the same. VD: What precipitated your move from Dutch colonialism...

... of postemancipation society in colonial Jamaica, the his- torian Thomas C. Holt figures the British abolition of slavery in 1833 as a “prob- lem of freedom.”5 He not only demonstrates that freedom for slaves immediately became a problem for powerful...

... “structural adjustment” programs of debt curtailment and market privatization. This led to any number of IMF riots, as they came to be called, following an uprising in Kingston, Jamaica, aimed directly at the IMF austerity program. But it also led...

... then emerged around the end of 1968, and by 1970 these remixes— called ‘versions’—were appearing on B-sides of most Jamaican singles. . . . During 1973–74 record buyers in Jamaica became accustomed to checking labels not just for the producer or artist, but also...

... in Jamaica . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press . Ward Jesmyn . 2013 . Men We Reaped . New York : Bloomsbury . This making of the black maternal as “somethin’,” as a collectivity that ruptures the solitude of private grief, animates our analysis of the difficult work...