Readings and media
The following material will provide further historical and socio-political context to the 2010 State of Emergency in Tivoli Gardens, West Kingston, Jamaica:
LITERARY WORKS
Patterson, Orlando. 1964. The Children of Sisyphus. Longman Pub Group.
Smith, Honor Ford. 1987. Lionheart gal: Life stories of Jamaican women. Sister Vision Press.
Cezair-Thompson, Margaret. 2010. The true history of paradise: A novel. Random House.
James, Marlon. 2014. A brief history of seven killings. Oneworld Publications.
McCallum, Shara. 2011. This Strange Land. Alice James Books.
Smith, Honor Ford. 1987. Lionheart gal: Life stories of Jamaican women. Sister Vision Press.
Cezair-Thompson, Margaret. 2010. The true history of paradise: A novel. Random House.
James, Marlon. 2014. A brief history of seven killings. Oneworld Publications.
McCallum, Shara. 2011. This Strange Land. Alice James Books.
FILMS
The Harder they Come (1973), directed by Perry Henzel.
Dancehall Queen (1997), directed by Rick Elgood and Don Letts.
Shottas (2002), directed by Cess Silvera.
Dancehall Queen (1997), directed by Rick Elgood and Don Letts.
Shottas (2002), directed by Cess Silvera.
scholarly RESOURCES
Amnesty International. 2003. Jamaica: “…Until Their Voices Are Heard…”, The West Kingston Commission of Inquiry, Amnesty International, July 2003, AMR 38/010/2003.
Bair, Madeleine . 2011. The Impact of the War on Drugs on Security, Legitimacy, and Sovereignty in Jamaica: A Case Study of the 2010 Extradition of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke. Masters Thesis, International and Area Studies, University of California-Berkeley.
Bell, D. (2018). Researching to Transgress and Transform. In A. Melling, & R. Pilkington, (Eds.), Paulo Freire and Transformative Education: Changing Lives and Transforming Communities. London: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-54250-2_5.
Bell, D. (2017). Community Psychology’s Gaze. In M. Seedat, S. Suffla & D. Christie, (Eds.), Community, Liberation and Public Engagement: Beyond Formulaic Method. New York: Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-63489-0_10.
Bell, D. (2016). Retrieving Psychosocial Signs of Structural Violence in Postcolonial Jamaica. Community Psychology in Global Perspective. Vol 1(2), 144-126.
Carnegie, Charles. 2014. “The Loss of the Verandah: Kingston’s Constricted Postcolonial Geographies.” Social and Economic Studies(63(2):59-85.
Clarke, Colin. 2016. Race, Class, and the Politics of Decolonization: Jamaica Journals 1961 and 1968. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Clarke, Colin. 2006. “Politics, Violence and Drugs in Kingston, Jamaica.” Bulletin of Latin American Research 25(3):420-440.
ECLAC Report, Jamaica: Report of the Macro Socio-Economic Effects of the Events in Western Kingston Area, 22 May-7 June 2010; 27 October 2010.
Edie, Carlene J. 1994. “Jamaica: Clientelism, Dependency, and Democratic Stability.” In Democracy in the Caribbean: Myths and Realities, Ed. Carlene Edie, pp. 25-41. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
Gray, Obika. 2004. Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press.
Gray, Obika. 1991. Radicalism and Social Change in Jamaica, 1960-1972. Knoxville: University of Texas Press.
Gunst, Laurie. 1995. Born Fi’ Dead: A Journey through the Jamaican Posse Underworld. New York: Henry Holt.
Harriott, Anthony. 2009. “Controlling Violent Crime: Models and Policy Options.” The Grace Kennedy Lecture, Grace Kennedy Foundation.
Harriott, Anthony. 2008. Organized Crime and Politics in Jamaica: Breaking the Nexus. Kingston: Canoe Press.
Harriott, Anthony (Ed.). 2004. Understanding Crime in Jamaica: New Challenges for Public Policy. Mona: University of the West Indies Press.
Harriott, Anthony. 1996. “The Changing Social Organization of Crime and Criminals in Jamaica.” Caribbean Quarterly42(2-3):61-81.
Haughton, Suzette. 2014. “The 2009 Jamaica-USA Extradition Affair: A ‘Securitized’ Response to Jamaica’s Drug Problem.” Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy2(3):15-41.
Hutchinson, Damian. 2016. The Peace Management Initiative: Interrupting Violence, Mainstreaming High Risk Youth, Empowering and Re-Building Communities. Kingston: Pear Tree Press, Ltd.
Jefferson, Owen. 1972. The Post-War Economic Development of Jamaica. Mona: Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies.
Lewis, Rupert. 2012. “Party Politics in Jamaica and the Extradition of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.” Global South6(1):38-54.
Meikle, Tracian and Rivke Jaffe. 2015. “’Police as the New Don? An Assessment of Post-Dudus Policing Strategies in Jamaica.” Caribbean Journal of Criminology1(2):75-100.
Munroe, Trevor. 1992. The Cold War and the Jamaican Left, 1950-55: Reopening the Files. Kingston: Kingston Publishers Limited.
Munroe, Trevor. 1990. Jamaican Politics: A Marxist Perspective in Transition. Kingston: Heinemann.
Munroe, Trevor. 1972. The Politics of Constitutional Democratization, 1944-1962. Mona: Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies.
Munroe, Trevor and Arnold Bertram. 2006. Adult Suffrage and Political Administrations in Jamaica, 1944-2002. Kingston: Ian Randle Press.
Page, Kezia. 2017. “Bongo Futures: The Reggae Revival and its Genealogies.” Small axe21(1):1-16.
Report of the Commission of Enquiry, Appointed to Enquire into Events which Occurred in Western Kingston and Related Areas in May 2010. June 2016. Government of Jamaica.
Robotham, Don. 2003. “How Kingston was Wounded.” In Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World, Eds. Jane Schneider and Ida Susser, pp. 111-128. Oxford: Berg Publishers.
Samuels, K.C. 2011. Jamaica’s First President: 1992-2010: His Rise, His Reign, His Demise, A Chronology of Lawlessness. Kingston: Page TurnER Publishing House.
Schwartz, Mattathias. 2011. “A Massacre in Jamaica.” New Yorker, 12 December, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/12/a-massacre-in-jamaica
Sives, Amanda. 2010. Elections, Violence, and the Democratic Process in Jamaica, 1944-2007. Kingston: Ian Randle Press.
Thame, Maziki. 2011. “Reading Violence and Postcolonial Decolonization through Fanon: The Case of Jamaica.” Journal of Pan African Studies4(7):75-93.
Thomas, Deborah A. 2016. “Time and the Otherwise: Plantations, Garrisons and Being Human in the Caribbean.” Anthropological Theory16(2-3):177-200.
Thomas, Deborah A. 2013. “Caribbean Studies, Archive Building, and the Problem of Violence.” small axe17(2):27-42.
Thomas, Deborah A. 2011. Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Witter, Errol. 2013. Public Defender in his Interim Report to Parliament (Concerning Investigations into the Conduct of the Security Forces during the State of Emergency Declared May, 2010) (2013).
Bair, Madeleine . 2011. The Impact of the War on Drugs on Security, Legitimacy, and Sovereignty in Jamaica: A Case Study of the 2010 Extradition of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke. Masters Thesis, International and Area Studies, University of California-Berkeley.
Bell, D. (2018). Researching to Transgress and Transform. In A. Melling, & R. Pilkington, (Eds.), Paulo Freire and Transformative Education: Changing Lives and Transforming Communities. London: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-54250-2_5.
Bell, D. (2017). Community Psychology’s Gaze. In M. Seedat, S. Suffla & D. Christie, (Eds.), Community, Liberation and Public Engagement: Beyond Formulaic Method. New York: Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-63489-0_10.
Bell, D. (2016). Retrieving Psychosocial Signs of Structural Violence in Postcolonial Jamaica. Community Psychology in Global Perspective. Vol 1(2), 144-126.
Carnegie, Charles. 2014. “The Loss of the Verandah: Kingston’s Constricted Postcolonial Geographies.” Social and Economic Studies(63(2):59-85.
Clarke, Colin. 2016. Race, Class, and the Politics of Decolonization: Jamaica Journals 1961 and 1968. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Clarke, Colin. 2006. “Politics, Violence and Drugs in Kingston, Jamaica.” Bulletin of Latin American Research 25(3):420-440.
ECLAC Report, Jamaica: Report of the Macro Socio-Economic Effects of the Events in Western Kingston Area, 22 May-7 June 2010; 27 October 2010.
Edie, Carlene J. 1994. “Jamaica: Clientelism, Dependency, and Democratic Stability.” In Democracy in the Caribbean: Myths and Realities, Ed. Carlene Edie, pp. 25-41. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
Gray, Obika. 2004. Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press.
Gray, Obika. 1991. Radicalism and Social Change in Jamaica, 1960-1972. Knoxville: University of Texas Press.
Gunst, Laurie. 1995. Born Fi’ Dead: A Journey through the Jamaican Posse Underworld. New York: Henry Holt.
Harriott, Anthony. 2009. “Controlling Violent Crime: Models and Policy Options.” The Grace Kennedy Lecture, Grace Kennedy Foundation.
Harriott, Anthony. 2008. Organized Crime and Politics in Jamaica: Breaking the Nexus. Kingston: Canoe Press.
Harriott, Anthony (Ed.). 2004. Understanding Crime in Jamaica: New Challenges for Public Policy. Mona: University of the West Indies Press.
Harriott, Anthony. 1996. “The Changing Social Organization of Crime and Criminals in Jamaica.” Caribbean Quarterly42(2-3):61-81.
Haughton, Suzette. 2014. “The 2009 Jamaica-USA Extradition Affair: A ‘Securitized’ Response to Jamaica’s Drug Problem.” Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy2(3):15-41.
Hutchinson, Damian. 2016. The Peace Management Initiative: Interrupting Violence, Mainstreaming High Risk Youth, Empowering and Re-Building Communities. Kingston: Pear Tree Press, Ltd.
Jefferson, Owen. 1972. The Post-War Economic Development of Jamaica. Mona: Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies.
Lewis, Rupert. 2012. “Party Politics in Jamaica and the Extradition of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.” Global South6(1):38-54.
Meikle, Tracian and Rivke Jaffe. 2015. “’Police as the New Don? An Assessment of Post-Dudus Policing Strategies in Jamaica.” Caribbean Journal of Criminology1(2):75-100.
Munroe, Trevor. 1992. The Cold War and the Jamaican Left, 1950-55: Reopening the Files. Kingston: Kingston Publishers Limited.
Munroe, Trevor. 1990. Jamaican Politics: A Marxist Perspective in Transition. Kingston: Heinemann.
Munroe, Trevor. 1972. The Politics of Constitutional Democratization, 1944-1962. Mona: Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies.
Munroe, Trevor and Arnold Bertram. 2006. Adult Suffrage and Political Administrations in Jamaica, 1944-2002. Kingston: Ian Randle Press.
Page, Kezia. 2017. “Bongo Futures: The Reggae Revival and its Genealogies.” Small axe21(1):1-16.
Report of the Commission of Enquiry, Appointed to Enquire into Events which Occurred in Western Kingston and Related Areas in May 2010. June 2016. Government of Jamaica.
Robotham, Don. 2003. “How Kingston was Wounded.” In Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World, Eds. Jane Schneider and Ida Susser, pp. 111-128. Oxford: Berg Publishers.
Samuels, K.C. 2011. Jamaica’s First President: 1992-2010: His Rise, His Reign, His Demise, A Chronology of Lawlessness. Kingston: Page TurnER Publishing House.
Schwartz, Mattathias. 2011. “A Massacre in Jamaica.” New Yorker, 12 December, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/12/a-massacre-in-jamaica
Sives, Amanda. 2010. Elections, Violence, and the Democratic Process in Jamaica, 1944-2007. Kingston: Ian Randle Press.
Thame, Maziki. 2011. “Reading Violence and Postcolonial Decolonization through Fanon: The Case of Jamaica.” Journal of Pan African Studies4(7):75-93.
Thomas, Deborah A. 2016. “Time and the Otherwise: Plantations, Garrisons and Being Human in the Caribbean.” Anthropological Theory16(2-3):177-200.
Thomas, Deborah A. 2013. “Caribbean Studies, Archive Building, and the Problem of Violence.” small axe17(2):27-42.
Thomas, Deborah A. 2011. Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Witter, Errol. 2013. Public Defender in his Interim Report to Parliament (Concerning Investigations into the Conduct of the Security Forces during the State of Emergency Declared May, 2010) (2013).