Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Peasants and The State in Development

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Negotiating Caribbean Freedom examines how development programs in Jamaica lock the state and rural smallholders into a relationship that fulfills the agendas of both constituents. It further shows how development policies end up bureaucratizing agrarian relations.

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This book remains an invaluable tool for readers interested in learning about the precise chronology of development interventions in agriculture by the Jamaican state. -- Christine Chivallon * New West Indian Guide *

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Michaeline A. Crichlow is Associate Professor of Historical Sociology, African American World Studies, and Director at the Caribbean, Diaspora, and Atlantic Studies Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City.