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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
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211151129
- ISBN
- 9798382742519
- DDC
- 338
- 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
- Legal protection
- 키워드
- Jamaica
- 기타저자
- Columbia University Anthropology
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-11A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■590 ▼aSchool code: 0054.
■650 4▼aCaribbean studies
■650 4▼aGender studies
■650 4▼aLaw
■653 ▼aUncontrollable law
■653 ▼aUncontrollable girls
■653 ▼aLegal protection
■653 ▼aCarceral histories
■653 ▼aJamaica
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■793 ▼aEnglish
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