The hybrid state: Crime and citizenship in urban Jamaica

American Ethnologist

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 734-748

  Jaffe, Rivke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anthropology of the state; Citizenship; Crime; Dons; Governance; Jamaica; Neoliberalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887142679     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/amet.12051     Document Type: Article

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