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Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom(Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)

Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom(Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)


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Citizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the interplay between the state, the body, race, and sexuality. Mimi Sheller offers a new theory of "citizenship from below" to describe the contest between "proper" spaces of legitimate high politics and the disavowed politics of lived embodiment. While acknowledging the internal contradictions and damaging exclusions of subaltern self-empowerment, Sheller roots out from beneath the historical archive traces of a deeper freedom, one expressed through bodily performances, familial relationships, cultivation of the land, and sacred worship.

Attending to the hidden linkages among intimate realms and the public sphere, Sheller explores specific struggles for freedom, including women's political activism in Jamaica; the role of discourses of "manhood" in the making of free subjects, soldiers, and citizens; the fiercely ethnonationalist discourses that excluded South Asian and African indentured workers; the sexual politics of the low-bass beats and "bottoms up" moves in the dancehall; and the struggle for reproductive and LGBT rights and against homophobia in the contemporary Caribbean. Through her creative use of archival sources and emphasis on the connections between intimacy, violence, and citizenship, Sheller enriches critical theories of embodied freedom, sexual citizenship, and erotic agency in all post-slavery societies.




Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. History from the Bottom(s) Up 19
2. Quasheba, Mother, Queen 48
3. Her Majesty's Sable Subjects 89
4. Lost Glimpses of 1865 114
5. Sword-Bearing Citizens 142
6. "You Signed My Name But Not My Feet" 166
7. Arboreal Landscapes of Power and Resistance 187
8. Returning the Tourist Gaze 210
9. Erotic Agency and a Queer Caribbean Freedom 239
Notes 281
Works Cited 305
Index 339

About the Author :

Mimi Sheller is Professor of Sociology at Drexel University and the author of Democracy after Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica and Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies.



Review :
"This is a stimulating, thought-provoking book of lasting significance to scholarship on the Caribbean, citizenship, sexuality, and embodiment. The way that Mimi Sheller puts the literatures on embodiment and citizenship into dialogue is impressive and important. After reading her analysis of these two bodies of scholarship, I will never again be able to think about one without considering the other. Citizenship from Below is a very distinguished book, one which will be widely read and discussed." Diana Paton, co-editor of Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing "Citizenship from Below is an important contribution to debates about the complexities of citizenship, particularly in post-slavery, postcolonial societies. Mimi Sheller traces the relations between constructions of gender and sexuality, transnational and diasporic imaginaries, and the various incarnations of Caribbean societies, from the colonial to the postcolonial and nationalist. She expands our notion of citizenship by showing how it is constructed by the state over time amid changing circumstances, and by alternative politics and modes of belonging that emerge from 'below.'" Deborah A. Thomas, author of Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822349532
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Series Title: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
  • Weight: 517 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0822349531
  • Publisher Date: 07 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Sub Title: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom
  • Width: 156 mm


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