Afua Cooper a Fitting \u27Copper Woman\u27.

News article describing Afua Cooper\u27s literary work

The hybrid state: Crime and citizenship in urban Jamaica

In inner-city neighborhoods in Kingston, Jamaica, criminal "dons" have taken on a range of governmental functions. While such criminal actors have sometimes been imagined as heading "parallel states," I argue that they are part of a hybrid state, an emergent political formation in which multiple governmental actors—in this case, criminal organizations, politicians, police, and bureaucrats—are entangled in a relationship of collusion and divestment, sharing control over urban spaces and populations. Extending recent scholarship on variegated sovereignty and neoliberal shifts in governance, I consider the implications of this diversification of governmental actors for the ways that citizenship is experienced and enacted. The hybrid state both produces and relies on distinct political subjectivities. It is accompanied by a reconfigured, hybrid citizenship, in which multiple practices and narratives related to rule and belonging, to rights and responsibilities, are negotiated by a range of actors. - See more at: http://www.anthrosource.net/Abstract.aspx?issn=0094-0496&volume=40&issue=4&doubleissueno=0&article=339507&suppno=0&jstor=False&cyear=2013#sthash.6XmjPANm.dpu

Series 2: California Hospital

Article clipped from the 1920 December 24 edition of the Glendora Gleaner

Series 2: California Hospital

Article clipped from the 1910 November 11 edition of the Glendora Gleaner

Series 2: California Hospital

Article from the 1911 January 6 edition of the Glendora Gleaner reports the death of F. R. Sykes