Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom
(Part of the Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822349531
ISBN13:9780822349532
Release Date:May 2012
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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