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Legal Lives and Carceral Histories: Making the Uncontrollable Girl in Jamaica
Legal Lives and Carceral Histories: Making the Uncontrollable Girl in Jamaica
Legal Lives and Carceral Histories: Making the Uncontrollable Girl in Jamaica

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20250211151129
ISBN  
9798382742519
DDC  
338
저자명  
Reinhart, Natalie Swan.
서명/저자  
Legal Lives and Carceral Histories: Making the Uncontrollable Girl in Jamaica
발행사항  
[Sl] : Columbia University, 2024
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
형태사항  
268 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.
주기사항  
Advisor: Scott, David.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2024.
초록/해제  
요약This dissertation examines the question of girlhood as a social and legal category, within contemporary feminist frameworks. Turning to Jamaica today, girls are disproportionately apprehended by the law and sentenced to prison for a range of so-called deviant behaviors. Colloquially, they are known as uncontrollable girls, and the law that incarcerates them, the uncontrollable law. This dissertation examines how girlhood has long been a site of Jamaican governance. I argue that the figure of the uncontrollable girl and the uncontrollable law must be analyzed as a project of state building, revealing carceral and colonial logics from chattel slavery into the present. Further, I examine the perceived deviance or vulnerability that girlhood elicits- as a dissident body that transgresses, or an innocent class in need of legal protection. Drawing across multiple discursive domains-from archival travelogues, colonial acts and amendments, to contemporary newspapers, legal documents, Jamaican literature, and ethnographic fieldwork-the dissertation situates girlhood as an analytic lens through which we might better understand how Jamaican citizenship, rights, and political futures are forestalled or qualified. The legal-historical perspective illuminates how constructions of deviance and vulnerability are predicated on colonial governmentality and knowledge production.First, I explore British abolitionist archives to examine pre- and post-Emancipation Jamaican vagrancy laws. The contemporary uncontrollable law, however, does not fit neatly into the category of vagrancy law. Instead, I argue, we must understand the governance of girlhood in Jamaica as a pliable historical-legal project of state building that extends into family law, labor law, juvenile acts, and small charges. Noticeably, this continues through coercively heteronormative laws, which I suggest speaks to a larger project of building "respectable" families in post-independent Jamaica.Second, I explore how the dual edge of a girl's deviance and vulnerability comes to play in the politics of contemporary constitutional reform and legal rights. Four ethnographic sites and related actors have my attention: the lower magisterial courts, the Jamaican Parliament floor, a civil society NGO working to overturn the uncontrollable law, and feminist activists. I show how advocacy work attempts to overturn the harms of colonial law through the discourse and practice of human rights. Within the work of overturning, however, emerge various political re-entrenchments of colonial law. This, I argue, reveals a continuing colonial present, through legal frameworks that manage and qualify citizenship. The historical particularity of Jamaica exemplifies the role the state plays in discursively producing and surveilling the domestic-from the intimate register of the family to the everyday lives of girls.
일반주제명  
Caribbean studies
일반주제명  
Gender studies
일반주제명  
Law
키워드  
Uncontrollable law
키워드  
Uncontrollable girls
키워드  
Legal protection
키워드  
Carceral histories
키워드  
Jamaica
기타저자  
Columbia University Anthropology
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-11A.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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