Negotiating Caribbean Freedom : Peasants, And The State in Development

Crichlow, Michaeline A.

ISBN 10: 0739110373 / ISBN 13: 9780739110379

Published by Lexington Books, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Negotiating Caribbean Freedom : Peasants, And The State in Development
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0739110373
• ISBN 13: 9780739110379
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Michaeline A. Crichlow extends the contemporary critique of development projects by examining the political and discursive relationship of the state to the land-based working people, or 'smallholders,' in modern Jamaica. The first book of its kind, Negotiating Caribbean Freedom does for Jamaican historiography and sociology what Akhil Gupta's PostColonial Developments did for studies of India. Michaeline A. Crichlow gives us an incredibly nuanced discussion of how development dominates the lives of the subsistance peasantry, not through force, but through the instrumentalization of social relationships that were once ends in themselves. For example, what were once effective agricultural practices? embedded in the every day lives of smallholders all over the island? have, in the interest of serving international captial, been bureaucratized to the point that they are untenable to support the livelihoods of smallholders. Not content to measure the success or failure of development to deliver on its promises, she discloses both the continuities and differences between development projects of very different political regimes and helps to establish why smallholders support development projects even when those projects fail to address their needs.

About the Author

Michaeline A. Crichlow is Associate Professor of Historical Sociology, African American World Studies, and Director at the Caribbean, Diaspora, and Atlantic Studies Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City.