The social impact of social funds in Jamaica - a mixed-methods analysis of participation, targeting, and collective action in community-driven development [PDF]
The authors develop an evaluation method that combines qualitative evidence with quantitative survey data analyzed with propensity score methods on matched samples to study the impact of a participatory community-driven social fund on preference ...
Ibanez, Ana Maria, Rao, Vijayendra
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Singing Security: Representations of State and Non-State Protection in Jamaican Popular Music [PDF]
, 2017 This working paper explores representations of security and policing in popular Jamaican music, offering an initial survey of themes and a preliminary analysis of this music as a creative negotiation of insecurity emerging from some of the Caribbean’s ...
Jaffe, Rivke
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Understanding a modern antique: challenges to representing Rastafari in the twenty-first century
NWIG, 2008 Drawing increasingly upon digital technologies and the internet to assert a sense of community even as they cultivate an austere biblical persona, adherents of Rastafari can be thought of as simultaneously modern and antique.
John P. Homiak
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, 2001 An overview of the reggae dancehall scene commenting on it's history, development and constituent elements such as music, dance, fashion and ...
Knight, David
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Reggae, identité et paysage urbain dans un bidonville de Kingston-ouest
L'Espace Politique, 2011 This paper looks into place's multidimensionality through the example of a western Kingston's slum. Reading the urban – or more accurately proto-urban – landscape of the peculiar Trenchtown's community allows us to reveal the place's politics, culture ...
Romain Cruse, Kevon Rhiney
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Kingston: A Societal Patchwork
Études Caribéennes, 2018 Besides the designations of numerous Kingston’s neighborhoods – Trench Town, Jones Town, Denham Town, Rae Town, August Town etc. – that clearly refer to the names of towns (in the city), the Jamaican capital is divided into two distinct sections, uptown,
Jérémie Kroubo Dagnini
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No person left behind: Mapping the health policy landscape for genomics research in the Caribbean. [PDF]
Lancet Reg Health Am, 2022 Bolleddula J +7 more
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Edna Manley\u27s The Diaries : Cultural Politics and the Discourse of Self [PDF]
, 1992 A critic of imperialism, race and class privilege, sculptor Edna Manley contributed to the ascendancy of a West Indian cultural aesthetic. Her productivity in the creative arts and her promotion of indigenous cultural organizations were vital to the ...
Springfield, Consuelo Lopez
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Overpoliced and Underrepresented: Perspectives on Cannabis Legalization From Members of Racialized Communities in Canada. [PDF]
Contemp Drug Probl, 2023 Wiese JL +7 more
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Un boceto de África en Bogotá [PDF]
Nómadas, 2005 El artículo representa una visión exploratoria desde las culturas juveniles afrodescendientes dentro del contexto urbano. El texto comienza con una experiencia personal en un rito tradicional lumbalú y concluye en un breve mapa de la presencia juvenil en
Rafael Serrano
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