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Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Peasants and the State in Development

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Michaeline A. Crichlow extends the up to date critique of development projects by examining the political and discursive relationship of the state to the land-based working people, or ‘smallholders,’ in brand new 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 leads to themselves. For instance, what were once effective agricultural practices―embedded within the each day lives of smallholders in all places the island―have, within the interest of serving international captial, been bureaucratized to the point that they’re untenable to reinforce 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 reinforce development projects even if those projects fail to address their needs.

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