Jean Besson
Biographic Data
| ID | 130560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean Besson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean |
| FAMILY NAME | Besson |
| SIGNATURE | BESSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Workings of Diaspora: Jamaican Maroons and the Claims to Sovereignty, by Mario Nisbett
In the forests of freedom: The fighting Maroons of Dominica
This is a ground-breaking book on the history of the Maroons of Dominica in the Eastern Caribbean. The positionality of the author, Lennox Honychurch, a Dominica-born historian and Oxford-trained s
Sidney W Mintz's 'peasantry' as a critique of capitalism: New evidence from Jamaica
A major theme in Sidney W Mintz's pioneering work on Caribbean societies has been the significance of peasantries in the transformation of this region. After outlining Mintz's perspective on Caribbean peasantries as a 'resistant response' to colonialism, plantations, slavery and indenture, this article highlights on-going peasantization in Jamaica, which was highly developed as a slave-plantation colony and where the post-colonial legacies of thi…
Ties That Bind: The Black Family in Post-Slavery Jamaica, 1834-1882, written by Jenny M. Jemmott
Enacting Power: The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760–2011
This book focuses on anti-obeah laws and their socio-political implications in the English-speaking Caribbean from the slavery era to the present. Meticulously researched through previously neglect
True-Born Maroons - by Kenneth M. Bilby
Caribbean Land and Development Revisited
history, anthropology, sociology and the environment. The series covers a comparative perspective across the Americas, including Canada
Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Peasants and the State in Development
Applied anthropology at Goldsmiths
Periodization or Process? An Anthropological View of History
2004). Periodization or Process? An Anthropological View of History. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 244-250
L'héritage de l'esclavage La mémoire du sol en Jamaïque occidentale
L'article examine l'héritage de l'esclavage, du marronage et de l'émancipation dans la Jamaïque occidentale, démontrant qu'un regard porté spécifiquement sur la propriété (essentiellement la terre) et la race permet de proposer une méthode pour faire se croiser passé et présent, celui-ci éclairé par celui-là. Reposant sur un travail de terrain mené entre 1968 et 2003, cette approche méthodologique est ici testée sur neuf communautés paysannes fon…
Euro-Creole, Afro-Creole, Meso-Creole: Creolization and Ethnic Identity in West-Central Jamaica
The terms 'creole' and 'creolization' have witnessed a number of significant semantic changes in the course of their history. Originating in the vocabulary associated with colonial expansion in the Americas it had been successively narrowed down to the field of black American culture or of particular linguistic phenomena. Recently 'creole' has expanded again to cover the broad area of cultural contact and transformation characterizing the process…
Folk Law and Legal Pluralism in Jamaica: A View from the Plantation-Peasant Interface
This article examines the overturning of aspects of the colonially-derived legal system by folk law in Jamaica, and the implications for the analysis of legal pluralism in plantation societies. The plural society thesis is highly developed for the Caribbean region, the oldest colonial sphere with the most pronounced plantation systems, where social and cultural pluralism has been described as including legal institutions. The land-tenure systems …
Recharting the Caribbean: Land, Law, and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands
Rastafari: Roots and Ideology
The continuity-creativity debate: The case of Revival
Argues that the attempts to polarize the debate around Caribbean culture into an African continuity versus a creole creativity position is misplaced. The authors use Revivalism as an example of both continuity in African-derived Myalim and an on-going process of re-creation
The legacy of George L. Beckford’s plantation economy thesis in Jamaica
First paragraph]Plantation Economy, Land Reform and the Peasantry in a Historical Perspective: Jamaica 1838-1980. CLAUS STOLBERG & SWITHIN WILMOT(eds.)- Kingston: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 1992. 145 pp. (Paper n.p.)This interdisciplinary collection focuses on the integration of Jamaica's classical plantation economy with the world economy, and the impact of the plantation economy on the peasantry, land reform, and agrarian modemization in Jamaica…
Consensus in the family land controversy: Rejoinder to Michaeline A. Crichlow
First paragraph]In her contribution to NWIG 68 (1994:77-99), "An Alternative Approach to Family Land Tenure in the Anglophone Caribbean," Michaeline Crichlow posits an "institutional-structural" school comprising Edith Clarke, M.G. Smith and myself, supported by Yvonne Acosta and Jean Casimir, to which she sees Charles V. Carnegie, Lesley McKay and herself as counterposed. M.G. Smith (1965:221), citing Clarke, identifies "two highly distinct syst…
Urban Poverty in the Caribbean: French Martinique as a Social Laboratory
Kinship and Class in the West Indies: A Genealogical Study of Jamaica and Guyana
Urban Life in Kingston, Jamaica: The Culture and Class Ideology of Two Neighbourhoods
This article examines the culture and class ideology of two neighbourhoods in Kingston, Jamaica, highlighting the interplay between European expansion and Caribbean culture-building. It explores how residents of these communities, shaped by different historical and socioeconomic circumstances, construct their identities and interpret their place within the broader Jamaican society. The study reveals the complex ways in which local cultural practi…
La rivière et le chant
Introduction : Alors que la médecine conventionnelle connaît des progrès fantastiques, de plus en plus de nos concitoyens se tournent vers des thérapies complémentaires alternatives comme celles proposées par les guérisseurs-magnétiseurs-barreurs de feu pour soulager des douleurs ou apaiser des souffrances. Objet de l’étude : Cette étude à la fois anthropologique et médicale se propose, à travers une rencontre avec 25 magnétiseurs et 120 médecins…
La Démocratie chrétienne ou les infortunes de la vertu. Les élections italiennes de juin 1983
Avec 32,9% de suffrages, la Démocratie chrétienne réalise aux élections législatives de juin 1983 son score le plus bas depuis la Libération. Les pertes — près de 6 points par rapport à 1979 — concernent cette fois tout l'éventail de Pélectorat du parti : d'opinion, d'appartenance ou de clientèle, populaire ou bourgeois, catholique engagé ou modéré. Au niveau du système partisan cependant, le choc de ces élections est amorti par l'absence d'une s…
Land tenure in the free villages of Trelawny, Jamaica: A case study in the Caribbean peasant response to emancipation
1984). Land tenure in the free villages of Trelawny, Jamaica: A case study in the Caribbean peasant response to emancipation. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 3-23
La traduction des poètes russes classiques à l'intention du grand public français
Land tenure in the free villages of Trelawny, Jamaica: A case study in the Caribbean peasant response to emancipation
1984). Land tenure in the free villages of Trelawny, Jamaica: A case study in the Caribbean peasant response to emancipation. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 3-23
The continuity-creativity debate: The case of Revival
Argues that the attempts to polarize the debate around Caribbean culture into an African continuity versus a creole creativity position is misplaced. The authors use Revivalism as an example of both continuity in African-derived Myalim and an on-going process of re-creation
Alas, Alas, Kongo: A Social History of Indentured African Immigration Into Jamaica, 1841-1865
Folk Law and Legal Pluralism in Jamaica: A View from the Plantation-Peasant Interface
This article examines the overturning of aspects of the colonially-derived legal system by folk law in Jamaica, and the implications for the analysis of legal pluralism in plantation societies. The plural society thesis is highly developed for the Caribbean region, the oldest colonial sphere with the most pronounced plantation systems, where social and cultural pluralism has been described as including legal institutions. The land-tenure systems …
Sidney W Mintz's 'peasantry' as a critique of capitalism: New evidence from Jamaica
A major theme in Sidney W Mintz's pioneering work on Caribbean societies has been the significance of peasantries in the transformation of this region. After outlining Mintz's perspective on Caribbean peasantries as a 'resistant response' to colonialism, plantations, slavery and indenture, this article highlights on-going peasantization in Jamaica, which was highly developed as a slave-plantation colony and where the post-colonial legacies of thi…
Recharting the Caribbean: Land, Law, and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands
Consensus in the family land controversy: Rejoinder to Michaeline A. Crichlow
First paragraph]In her contribution to NWIG 68 (1994:77-99), "An Alternative Approach to Family Land Tenure in the Anglophone Caribbean," Michaeline Crichlow posits an "institutional-structural" school comprising Edith Clarke, M.G. Smith and myself, supported by Yvonne Acosta and Jean Casimir, to which she sees Charles V. Carnegie, Lesley McKay and herself as counterposed. M.G. Smith (1965:221), citing Clarke, identifies "two highly distinct syst…
Urban Life in Kingston, Jamaica: The Culture and Class Ideology of Two Neighbourhoods
This article examines the culture and class ideology of two neighbourhoods in Kingston, Jamaica, highlighting the interplay between European expansion and Caribbean culture-building. It explores how residents of these communities, shaped by different historical and socioeconomic circumstances, construct their identities and interpret their place within the broader Jamaican society. The study reveals the complex ways in which local cultural practi…
Euro-Creole, Afro-Creole, Meso-Creole: Creolization and Ethnic Identity in West-Central Jamaica
The terms 'creole' and 'creolization' have witnessed a number of significant semantic changes in the course of their history. Originating in the vocabulary associated with colonial expansion in the Americas it had been successively narrowed down to the field of black American culture or of particular linguistic phenomena. Recently 'creole' has expanded again to cover the broad area of cultural contact and transformation characterizing the process…
Rastafari: Roots and Ideology
Les élections du 7 juin 1970 en Italie
Les élections du 7 Juin 1970 en Italie, par Jean Besson et Geneviève Bibes Les élections du 7 juin 1970 en Italie présentaient un double intérêt : d'une part, elles permettaient - après vingt-deux ans d'hésitation - la mise en place des conseils régionaux prévus par la Constitution ; d'autre part, elles offraient à 35 millions d'électeurs l'occasion de donner une réponse politique aux multiples changements politiques et sociaux intervenus depuis …
Les élections régionales siciliennes du 5 juin 1955
Besson Jean. Les élections régionales siciliennes du 5 juin 1955. In: Revue française de science politique, 5e année, n°3, 1955. pp. 598-608
Les élections administratives italiennes des 26-28 mai 1956
Besson Jean. Les élections administratives italiennes des 26-28 mai 1956 . In: Revue française de science politique, 6e année, n°3, 1956. pp. 554-569
Les élections italiennes du 25 mai 1958
Besson Jean. Les élections italiennes du 25 mai 1958. In: Revue française de science politique, 9e année, n°2, 1959. pp. 368-382
La sociologie électorale en Italie
Besson Jean. La sociologie électorale en Italie. In: Revue française de science politique, 10e année, n°4, 1960. pp. 931-941
La Calabre. Une région sous-développée de l'Europe Méditerranéenne
Les élections du 7 juin 1970 en Italie
Les élections du 7 Juin 1970 en Italie, par Jean Besson et Geneviève Bibes Les élections du 7 juin 1970 en Italie présentaient un double intérêt : d'une part, elles permettaient - après vingt-deux ans d'hésitation - la mise en place des conseils régionaux prévus par la Constitution ; d'autre part, elles offraient à 35 millions d'électeurs l'occasion de donner une réponse politique aux multiples changements politiques et sociaux intervenus depuis …
Alas, Alas, Kongo: A Social History of Indentured African Immigration Into Jamaica, 1841-1865
La traduction des poètes russes classiques à l'intention du grand public français
La Démocratie chrétienne ou les infortunes de la vertu. Les élections italiennes de juin 1983
Avec 32,9% de suffrages, la Démocratie chrétienne réalise aux élections législatives de juin 1983 son score le plus bas depuis la Libération. Les pertes — près de 6 points par rapport à 1979 — concernent cette fois tout l'éventail de Pélectorat du parti : d'opinion, d'appartenance ou de clientèle, populaire ou bourgeois, catholique engagé ou modéré. Au niveau du système partisan cependant, le choc de ces élections est amorti par l'absence d'une s…
Land tenure in the free villages of Trelawny, Jamaica: A case study in the Caribbean peasant response to emancipation
1984). Land tenure in the free villages of Trelawny, Jamaica: A case study in the Caribbean peasant response to emancipation. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 3-23
La rivière et le chant
Introduction : Alors que la médecine conventionnelle connaît des progrès fantastiques, de plus en plus de nos concitoyens se tournent vers des thérapies complémentaires alternatives comme celles proposées par les guérisseurs-magnétiseurs-barreurs de feu pour soulager des douleurs ou apaiser des souffrances. Objet de l’étude : Cette étude à la fois anthropologique et médicale se propose, à travers une rencontre avec 25 magnétiseurs et 120 médecins…
Urban Life in Kingston, Jamaica: The Culture and Class Ideology of Two Neighbourhoods
This article examines the culture and class ideology of two neighbourhoods in Kingston, Jamaica, highlighting the interplay between European expansion and Caribbean culture-building. It explores how residents of these communities, shaped by different historical and socioeconomic circumstances, construct their identities and interpret their place within the broader Jamaican society. The study reveals the complex ways in which local cultural practi…
Kinship and Class in the West Indies: A Genealogical Study of Jamaica and Guyana
Urban Poverty in the Caribbean: French Martinique as a Social Laboratory
The legacy of George L. Beckford’s plantation economy thesis in Jamaica
First paragraph]Plantation Economy, Land Reform and the Peasantry in a Historical Perspective: Jamaica 1838-1980. CLAUS STOLBERG & SWITHIN WILMOT(eds.)- Kingston: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 1992. 145 pp. (Paper n.p.)This interdisciplinary collection focuses on the integration of Jamaica's classical plantation economy with the world economy, and the impact of the plantation economy on the peasantry, land reform, and agrarian modemization in Jamaica…
Consensus in the family land controversy: Rejoinder to Michaeline A. Crichlow
First paragraph]In her contribution to NWIG 68 (1994:77-99), "An Alternative Approach to Family Land Tenure in the Anglophone Caribbean," Michaeline Crichlow posits an "institutional-structural" school comprising Edith Clarke, M.G. Smith and myself, supported by Yvonne Acosta and Jean Casimir, to which she sees Charles V. Carnegie, Lesley McKay and herself as counterposed. M.G. Smith (1965:221), citing Clarke, identifies "two highly distinct syst…
The continuity-creativity debate: The case of Revival
Argues that the attempts to polarize the debate around Caribbean culture into an African continuity versus a creole creativity position is misplaced. The authors use Revivalism as an example of both continuity in African-derived Myalim and an on-going process of re-creation
Rastafari: Roots and Ideology
Folk Law and Legal Pluralism in Jamaica: A View from the Plantation-Peasant Interface
This article examines the overturning of aspects of the colonially-derived legal system by folk law in Jamaica, and the implications for the analysis of legal pluralism in plantation societies. The plural society thesis is highly developed for the Caribbean region, the oldest colonial sphere with the most pronounced plantation systems, where social and cultural pluralism has been described as including legal institutions. The land-tenure systems …
Recharting the Caribbean: Land, Law, and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands
Euro-Creole, Afro-Creole, Meso-Creole: Creolization and Ethnic Identity in West-Central Jamaica
The terms 'creole' and 'creolization' have witnessed a number of significant semantic changes in the course of their history. Originating in the vocabulary associated with colonial expansion in the Americas it had been successively narrowed down to the field of black American culture or of particular linguistic phenomena. Recently 'creole' has expanded again to cover the broad area of cultural contact and transformation characterizing the process…
Periodization or Process? An Anthropological View of History
2004). Periodization or Process? An Anthropological View of History. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 244-250
L'héritage de l'esclavage La mémoire du sol en Jamaïque occidentale
L'article examine l'héritage de l'esclavage, du marronage et de l'émancipation dans la Jamaïque occidentale, démontrant qu'un regard porté spécifiquement sur la propriété (essentiellement la terre) et la race permet de proposer une méthode pour faire se croiser passé et présent, celui-ci éclairé par celui-là. Reposant sur un travail de terrain mené entre 1968 et 2003, cette approche méthodologique est ici testée sur neuf communautés paysannes fon…
Applied anthropology at Goldsmiths
Caribbean Land and Development Revisited
history, anthropology, sociology and the environment. The series covers a comparative perspective across the Americas, including Canada
Caribbean history, culture, and politics (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · History (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works)