Thomas Deborah A. Thomas

Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation (eBook, PDF)

Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair

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Produktbeschreibung

In 2010, Jamaican police and military forces entered the West Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens to apprehend Christopher "e;Dudus"e; Coke, who had been ordered for extradition to the United States on gun and drug-running charges. By the time Coke was detained, somewhere between seventy-five and two hundred civilians had been killed. In Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation, Deborah A. Thomas uses the incursion as a point of departure for theorizing the roots of contemporary state violence in Jamaica and in post-plantation societies in general. Drawing on visual, oral historical, and colonial archives, Thomas traces the long-term legacies of the plantation system and how its governing logics continue to shape and replicate forms of violence. She places affect at the center of sovereignty to destabilize disembodied narratives of liberalism and progress and to raise questions about recognition, repair, and accountability. In tying theories of politics, colonialism, race, and affect together with Jamaica's history, Thomas presents a robust framework for understanding what it means to be human in the plantation's wake.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478007449
• Artikelnr.: 66282368

Autorenporträt

Deborah A. Thomas

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  xi
Introduction. Humanness in the Wake of the Plantation  1
1. Doubt  22
Interlude I. Interrogating Imperialism  67
2. Expectancy  88
Interlude II. Naming Names  133
3. Paranoia  151
Coda. The End of the World as We Know It  207
Acknowledgments  223
Notes  229
References  269
Index  293