By Mimi Sheller

ISBN-10: 0822349345

ISBN-13: 9780822349341

ISBN-10: 0822349531

ISBN-13: 9780822349532

Citizenship from Below boldly revises the historical past of the struggles for freedom by way of emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the broader Caribbean via targeting the interaction among the kingdom, the physique, race, and sexuality. Mimi Sheller deals a brand new conception of "citizenship from less than" to explain the competition among "proper" areas of valid excessive politics and the disavowed politics of lived embodiment. whereas acknowledging the interior contradictions and destructive exclusions of subaltern self-empowerment, Sheller roots out from underneath the historic archive strains of a deeper freedom, one expressed via physically performances, familial relationships, cultivation of the land, and sacred worship.

Attending to the hidden linkages between intimate nation-states and the general public sphere, Sheller explores particular struggles for freedom, together with women's political activism in Jamaica; the position of discourses of "manhood" within the making of loose matters, infantrymen, and electorate; the fiercely ethnonationalist discourses that excluded South Asian and African indentured staff; the sexual politics of the low-bass beats and "bottoms up" strikes within the dancehall; and the fight for reproductive and LGBT rights and opposed to homophobia within the modern Caribbean. via her inventive use of archival resources and emphasis at the connections among intimacy, violence, and citizenship, Sheller enriches serious theories of embodied freedom, sexual citizenship, and erotic supplier in all post-slavery societies.


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