{"product_id":"political-life-in-the-wake-of-the-plantation-sovereignty-witnessing-repair-paperback","title":"Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDeborah A. Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2010, Jamaican police and military forces entered the West Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens to apprehend Christopher \"Dudus\" Coke, who had been ordered for extradition to the United States on gun and drug-running charges. By the time Coke was detained, somewhere between seventy-five and two hundred civilians had been killed. In \u003ci\u003ePolitical Life in the Wake of the Plantation\u003c\/i\u003e, Deborah A. Thomas uses the incursion as a point of departure for theorizing the roots of contemporary state violence in Jamaica and in post-plantation societies in general. Drawing on visual, oral historical, and colonial archives, Thomas traces the long-term legacies of the plantation system and how its governing logics continue to shape and replicate forms of violence. She places affect at the center of sovereignty to destabilize disembodied narratives of liberalism and progress and to raise questions about recognition, repair, and accountability. In tying theories of politics, colonialism, race, and affect together with Jamaica's history, Thomas presents a robust framework for understanding what it means to be human in the plantation's wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeborah A. Thomas is R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of \u003ci\u003eExceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eModern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and Politics of Culture in Jamaica\u003c\/i\u003e, both also published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 08, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45775043330245,"sku":"9781478006695","price":48.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/ZTX_DPB6Zy9781478006695.webp?v=1770529475","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/political-life-in-the-wake-of-the-plantation-sovereignty-witnessing-repair-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}