Structural Readjustment: Crime, Development, and Repair in the Jamaican Lottery Scam

Lewis, Jovan Scott

doi:10.1353/anq.2018.0048

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“…The first viewer's critique of the “commissioning celebration”, like the call for Nelson's obliteration, speaks largely to the connections between justice and time. In contrast to Mottley's discourse of repair and nation‐building, these viewers see justice as immediate transformations, not as a process that requires self‐introspection or diplomacy, which, as Jovan Lewis (2018) argues, distinguishes Black emancipatory acts like scamming from respectable notions of repair. Again, Barbados is praised for its respectable response to the past as demonstrated in this viewer's comment, “I witness due the recent global protest against racism most statues of racist were defaced and remove by violence.…”

Section: A Response To the Decommissioningmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…This work also largely draws on Black geographers and those who imagine Black geographic experiences and knowledge such as, but not limited to, the plot, 8 the lottery scam, the blues, Black land—as repairing processes (Guess 2021; King 2019; Lewis 2018; McKittrick 2011; Woods 2007). Ruth Wilson Gilmore's (2022) concept of “abolition geography” offers a critical framework that complements my thinking on reparations.…”

Section: The Formation Of the Decommissioningmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Tek Down Nelson! The Struggle for Repair in Barbados

Simone

2023

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In this article I explore how the decommissioning of the statue of Lord Horatio Nelson captures some of the ways justice is envisioned within Barbados. I ask: How does the decommissioning generate more attention to the reparations question? How is repair and sovereignty conceptualised through the performances that animated and structured the event? What do these performances suggest about the Barbadian geographic-historical foundation? I engage theorists of Black geographies and Black studies to work through the above questions. I do close readings of the performances featured in the ceremony, to illuminate how the decommissioning gestured to a range of histories and struggles that are punctuated by political transformation. My reading draws attention to how the statue's removal builds on regional demands for reparations and Barbadian struggles for sovereignty, which I argue are complementary aims.

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Section: A Response To the Decommissioningmentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: The Formation Of the Decommissioningmentioning

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Tek Down Nelson! The Struggle for Repair in Barbados

Simone

2023

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“…Studying these topics might have impacted how we understand the legacies of slavery, mass killings, illegal land seizures, and colonial plunder inflicted on Brown and Black people throughout the globe (R. Allen 1998; Beckles 2013; Clarke, Nmehielle, and Jalloh 2019; Craemer 2020; Deloria 1988b; Evans and Lees 2021; Gray 2018; Hauser et al. 2018; Howard‐Hassmann 2004; Johnston and Slyomovics 2016; LaDuke 1999; Lau‐Ozawa 2018, 2020; J. Lewis 2020; Nash and Colwell 2020; Nesiah 2020; Perry 2020; Ralph 2014; Rechavia‐Taylor 2020; Schirrer 2020; Sheehan and Speights‐Binet 2019; Slyomovics 2012, 2015, 2016; Torpey 2003; Trask 2003; Tuck 2014; Williams and Thomas 2021).…”

Section: Counterfactual History: Futures Lost and Foundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonizing US anthropology

Gupta

Stoolman

2022

American Anthropologist

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After Ferguson, Standing Rock, the Black Lives Matter protests, and the crisis of refugees at the US southern border, there have been renewed calls for a racial reckoning in US anthropology. Dissatisfaction on the domestic front runs parallel to an unease over US anthropology's failure to adequately address militarism, imperialism, and predatory capitalism abroad. Finally, there is the fraught question of US anthropology's oversized influence within world anthropologies. We propose that a reassessment of US anthropology might fruitfully begin with some counterfactual history. How would US anthropology been different had the founding generations conceptualized the discipline as a decolonizing project? What topics or themes might have become central to US anthropology? How might our methods have been different? To make anthropology departments more diverse, inclusive, and equitable, we need to do more than add faculty and students of color. Despite being a field whose central concept is "culture," we have paid far too little attention to the culture of anthropology departments. Do unexamined practices of "white-norming" that shape the everyday lives of faculty and students in anthropology departments persistently "Other"-marginalize and alienate-people of color?

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“…scams targeting elderly Americans). By centering the epistemic knowledge and personal ethics of these young men within their geopolitical condition, Lewis (2018Lewis ( , 2020 is able to theorize scamming not simply as a socioeconomic phenomenon but a political act of redistribution and postcolonial repair.…”

Section: Reparation Liberationmentioning

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Researching violent contexts: A call for political reflexivity

Abdelnour

Moghli

2021

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Violent contexts are not “normal” research settings; they involve abuses, power disparities, and collective histories of violence that researchers should be alert to. Being unreflexive to these risks can cause harm in the form of objectifying people and context, normalizing violence, or silencing voices. Political reflexivity can equip researchers to better identify, understand and mitigate these harms, and where possible, challenge structures that do the marginalizing. We articulate political reflexivity through feminist standpoint theory, which asks researchers to critically examine their positionality and privilege in relation to the geopolitics of the research setting, epistemic privilege of marginalized participants, and political implications of their work. Practicing political reflexivity can help researchers situate their work along a “decoloniality continuum,” which includes research complicit with the maintenance of violence, a hybridity approach that aims to understand and challenge the (colonial) underpinnings of violence by centering marginalized knowledge, and research that seeks reparation or liberation, meaning redress and radical equality for marginalized peoples, ideas and histories. We conclude with a call for researchers to identify methods and paths to strengthen our understanding of political reflexivity, and to support efforts to decolonize knowledge.

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Structural Readjustment: Crime, Development, and Repair in the Jamaican Lottery Scam

Cited by 4 publications

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Tek Down Nelson! The Struggle for Repair in Barbados

Tek Down Nelson! The Struggle for Repair in Barbados

Decolonizing US anthropology

Researching violent contexts: A call for political reflexivity

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