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Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation

Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair

by Deborah A. Thomas

An anthropologist's study of state violence and its aftermath in Jamaica, including the Coral Gardens incident of 1963 and the Tivoli Gardens incursion of 2010. It explores how testimony, film and acknowledgement can contribute to repair.

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