Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom

by Mimi Sheller

Book Overview

Citizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the interplay between the state, the body, race, and sexuality. Mimi Sheller offers a new theory of "citizenship from below" to describe the contest between "proper" spaces of legitimate high politics and the disavowed politics of lived embodiment. While...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822349531
• ISBN13: 9780822349532
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"