Henrice Altink
Biographic Data
| ID | 898786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henrice Altink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henrice |
| FAMILY NAME | Altink |
| SIGNATURE | ALTINK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9123-0722 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 36 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Politics of Infrastructure in Inner-City Communities in Kingston, Jamaica, From 1962 to 2020
The “politics of infrastructure” reproduces inequality, leaving many urban residents without access to water, sanitation, and other basic services. Inner-city residents in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, have long coped with poor drainage and waste collection that increases flood and health risks. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, this study examines how a system of patronage and partisan politics in Jamaica has helped to (re)produce this i…
Making Tourism Sustainable? Environment and Resort Tourism in Negril, Jamaica, 1970s–2002
Based on newspaper accounts, official documents and reports by international donors, this article sets out the growing awareness about the environmental impact of resort tourism in Jamaica and action proposed and undertaken to put tourism on a more sustainable path, from the 1970s till the adoption of a Masterplan for Sustainable Tourism Development in 2002. Through a case study of the resort town of Negril, it will argue that the Master Plan was…
Situating commercial determinants of health in their historical context
BACKGROUND: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of mortality across the Caribbean and similar regions. Structural determinants include a marked increase in the dependency on food imports, and the proliferation of processed foods, including sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). We focused on Jamaica as a case study and the health challenge of SSBs, and situated contemporary actions, experiences and policies within their historical c…
Conservation and Conflict in the Cockpit Country, Jamaica, 1962-2022
Cockpit Country in west central Jamaica is a unique karst landscape. Based on a wide range of published and online sources, this article examines threats to the area’s biodiversity and attempts to conserve it, from Jamaica’s independence in 1962 to the declaration of the Cockpit Country Protected Area in 2022. It focusses on several stakeholders – the government, international organisations, environmental groups, and Cockpit communities –, and ar…
The impacts of artisanal and small-scale gold mining on rural livelihood trajectories
Rising gold prices, together with other challenges faced by smallholders, mean rural people in sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly taking advantage of ASGM's low barriers to entry and engage in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) to make money on a regular basis. Yet, adequate knowledge on the impact of ASGM's emergence on rural livelihood trajectories is lacking, particularly for emerging ASGM communities. Understanding the long-term dy…
Slavery by another name
During the period of slavery there were workhouses in most parishes on the island, catering primarily for convicted free coloured people and runaway and convicted slaves. The transformation of the workhouses was largely a response to clause 17 of the 1833 Abolition Act, which forbade Jamaican planters to punish their former slaves. The workhouses were run by a committee consisting of the chief magistrate of the parish and five justices of the pea…
The value of secondary use of data generated by non-governmental organisations for disaster risk management research
Out of Place
Because hotels are a microcosm of society, they offer a useful case study to explore social inequalities, including racial divisions. This article examines the experiences of African-Jamaican hotel workers and guests from independence in 1962 till the present to demonstrate the salience of Jamaica's race and color relations. It argues that hotel workers and guests at times challenged the racialized practices that they experienced but more often r…
Tackling child malnutrition in Jamaica, 1962–2020
On the eve of independence in 1962, malnutrition was the largest single cause of death in Jamaica for children under one. Although child malnutrition rates have rapidly declined since 1962, today Jamaica experiences a double burden of malnutrition: the coexistence of pockets of high child malnutrition with rising levels of childhood obesity. Based on a wide range of sources, including public documents, newspaper reports, scientific studies and re…
Marrying light’
While historians have increasingly examined inter-racial marriage, they have so far paid scant attention to intraracial marriage. This article tries to fill this gap in the scholarship by examining the practice of ‘marrying light’ in Jamaica from c. 1918 to 1980. Based on a wide range of sources, including memoirs and autobiographical fiction, it is particularly concerned with the motives for cross-colour marriage and the ways in which African-Ja…
Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, by Randy M. Browne
In 1803, the British took control of the Dutch colony Berbice, which is one of the best-documented slave societies in the Americas, as enslaved people in this colony had the right (under both Dutch and British rule) to launch a complaint against their owner, free people and even fellow slaves before a protector of slaves. This generated thousands of near verbatim testimonies of slaves, free people and white owners, managers and overseers. Randy M…
The black scourge? Race and the Rockefeller Foundation's tuberculosis commission in interwar Jamaica
From 1927 to 1942, the Rockefeller Foundation ran a tuberculosis commission in Jamaica that researched the epidemiology of the disease, examined the efficacy of a vaccine with heat-killed tubercle bacilli, and offered basic treatment to tuberculosis sufferers. Drawing upon diaries and scientific writings by the staff employed by the commission, among other sources, this article explores the role that race played in the tuberculosis commission. It…
Spencer Mawby, Ordering Independence
Colleen A. Vasconcellos. Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788–1838
Twenty years ago, Wilma King published Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America. Largely based on the slave narratives of the Federal Writers’ Project, this was the first book to offer a detailed examination of the lives of American slave children. Now Colleen Vasconcellos has attempted to provide a similar study for Jamaican slavery. However, because there are hardly any slave narratives for Jamaica, Slavery, Childhood and Abo…
Facilitator or hindrance to social change? The Westminster model and racial discrimination on the Jamaican labour market, 1944–1980
Between 1944 and 1962, Jamaica witnessed a process of Westminsterisation. The Westminster model has the potential to bring about socio-economic change as its executive can move its policy agenda quickly through the legislature because it is created from a majority in the legislature's lower house. Yet it can also stifle change because of its lack of separation between the executive and legislative branches of government and other attributes. This…
Empire, Race and the Politics ofAnti-CasteCaroline BRESSEY
Coolie Woman
Coolie is a term that the British used for the indentured labourers they recruited from India to work on sugar plantations in the Caribbean after emancipation. Gaiutra Bahadur's great-grandmother S
A True Maverick
This article examines the political career of the African-Jamaican Dr. Oswald E. Anderson from his entry into local politics in 1919 till his defeat in the first election under universal suffrage in 1944. It will demonstrate that Anderson differed from other black politicians at the time because of his criticism of Crown Colony government, commitment to the welfare of the masses, nationalist fervour and above all his outspokenness about racial di…
Bonds of Empire
Bonds of Empire is part of a burgeoning literature that looks at the mutually reinforcing links between metropole and colonies. It examines the British identity of middle-class West Indians both at home and in the metropole from 1900 to the 1960s through a set of case studies: education, voluntary organization, wartime effort, radio broadcasting, and British royalty. The first part, which deals with the period up to the First World War, examines …
Contentious Liberties
Contentious Liberties: American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834–1866, by Gale L. Kenny, Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2010, xi + 212 pp., US$44.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-820
The Case of Miss Leila James B.A.”
Engendering Whiteness
I Did Not Want to Face the Shame of Exposure
This article examines 125 court cases of infanticide and concealment of birth that were reported in a Jamaican newspaper between 1865 and 1938 and were mainly committed by lower-class women. Informed by recent medical, psychological and legal studies on child murder, it demonstrates that historians can gain a more complete understanding of child murder in the modern period if they pay attention not only to poverty and a stigma attached to illegit…
Gone is the Ancient Glory
Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838
This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s lives
The impacts of artisanal and small-scale gold mining on rural livelihood trajectories
Rising gold prices, together with other challenges faced by smallholders, mean rural people in sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly taking advantage of ASGM's low barriers to entry and engage in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) to make money on a regular basis. Yet, adequate knowledge on the impact of ASGM's emergence on rural livelihood trajectories is lacking, particularly for emerging ASGM communities. Understanding the long-term dy…
An Outrage on All Decency
The system of production in Jamaican slave society depended upon the successful subjugation of the slave body. This was largely achieved through the use or threat of violent punishment, especially flogging. Of all the indecencies linked with slavery, abolitionists were most enraged about the violence done to the slave’s body. The lacerated slave body in abolitionist discourse was first and foremost a female body since they regarded physical viole…
The Case of Miss Leila James B.A.”
Deviant and dangerous
This article analyses the pro-slavery debate about Jamaican slave women's sexuality in the period 1770–1834. The first part shows that two images of slave women dominated this debate and argues that these served primarily to displace fears about the viability of the plantation system. The second part explores the link between the two images and the practice of interracial sex, amongst others, by comparing Jamaican attitudes towards interracial se…
Facilitator or hindrance to social change? The Westminster model and racial discrimination on the Jamaican labour market, 1944–1980
Between 1944 and 1962, Jamaica witnessed a process of Westminsterisation. The Westminster model has the potential to bring about socio-economic change as its executive can move its policy agenda quickly through the legislature because it is created from a majority in the legislature's lower house. Yet it can also stifle change because of its lack of separation between the executive and legislative branches of government and other attributes. This…
I Did Not Want to Face the Shame of Exposure
This article examines 125 court cases of infanticide and concealment of birth that were reported in a Jamaican newspaper between 1865 and 1938 and were mainly committed by lower-class women. Informed by recent medical, psychological and legal studies on child murder, it demonstrates that historians can gain a more complete understanding of child murder in the modern period if they pay attention not only to poverty and a stigma attached to illegit…
Slavery by another name
Hitherto, the historiography of Jamaican slavery has ignored the period of Apprenticeship which lasted from 1834 until 1838 when Jamaica changed from a forced labour to a free labour economy. The purpose of this article is to show that the period deserves studying as it was 'slavery by another name'. It does this by examining the experiences of apprenticed women in the island's workhouses. The disciplinary regime that the women faced was similar …
Conservation and Conflict in the Cockpit Country, Jamaica, 1962-2022
Cockpit Country in west central Jamaica is a unique karst landscape. Based on a wide range of published and online sources, this article examines threats to the area’s biodiversity and attempts to conserve it, from Jamaica’s independence in 1962 to the declaration of the Cockpit Country Protected Area in 2022. It focusses on several stakeholders – the government, international organisations, environmental groups, and Cockpit communities –, and ar…
Out of Place
Because hotels are a microcosm of society, they offer a useful case study to explore social inequalities, including racial divisions. This article examines the experiences of African-Jamaican hotel workers and guests from independence in 1962 till the present to demonstrate the salience of Jamaica's race and color relations. It argues that hotel workers and guests at times challenged the racialized practices that they experienced but more often r…
Marrying light’
While historians have increasingly examined inter-racial marriage, they have so far paid scant attention to intraracial marriage. This article tries to fill this gap in the scholarship by examining the practice of ‘marrying light’ in Jamaica from c. 1918 to 1980. Based on a wide range of sources, including memoirs and autobiographical fiction, it is particularly concerned with the motives for cross-colour marriage and the ways in which African-Ja…
A True Maverick
This article examines the political career of the African-Jamaican Dr. Oswald E. Anderson from his entry into local politics in 1919 till his defeat in the first election under universal suffrage in 1944. It will demonstrate that Anderson differed from other black politicians at the time because of his criticism of Crown Colony government, commitment to the welfare of the masses, nationalist fervour and above all his outspokenness about racial di…
Slavery by another name
The Franco‐British conference on slavery from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century oxford, 5–6 December 1998, organized by the Maison Française, Nuffield College and the Centre for Africa…
Slavery by another name
Slavery by another name
Slavery by another name
Hitherto, the historiography of Jamaican slavery has ignored the period of Apprenticeship which lasted from 1834 until 1838 when Jamaica changed from a forced labour to a free labour economy. The purpose of this article is to show that the period deserves studying as it was 'slavery by another name'. It does this by examining the experiences of apprenticed women in the island's workhouses. The disciplinary regime that the women faced was similar …
An Outrage on All Decency
The system of production in Jamaican slave society depended upon the successful subjugation of the slave body. This was largely achieved through the use or threat of violent punishment, especially flogging. Of all the indecencies linked with slavery, abolitionists were most enraged about the violence done to the slave’s body. The lacerated slave body in abolitionist discourse was first and foremost a female body since they regarded physical viole…
The Routledge Historical Atlas of Women in America
To Wed or Not to Wed
This article examines the extent to which Afro-Jamaicans could live up to the metropolitan, middle-class ideal of marriage during the Apprenticeship System, that is the period 1834–1838 during which slaves in the British Caribbean were prepared for free-wage labour. It shows that the Abolition of Slavery Act issued by the Imperial Government in 1833, the various local Acts that had to give effect to this Act, and legal and extra-legal practices a…
If they don't bring their women here
Immigrant mothers
Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838
This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s lives
No Bond but the Law
Deviant and dangerous
This article analyses the pro-slavery debate about Jamaican slave women's sexuality in the period 1770–1834. The first part shows that two images of slave women dominated this debate and argues that these served primarily to displace fears about the viability of the plantation system. The second part explores the link between the two images and the practice of interracial sex, amongst others, by comparing Jamaican attitudes towards interracial se…
Gone is the Ancient Glory
I Did Not Want to Face the Shame of Exposure
This article examines 125 court cases of infanticide and concealment of birth that were reported in a Jamaican newspaper between 1865 and 1938 and were mainly committed by lower-class women. Informed by recent medical, psychological and legal studies on child murder, it demonstrates that historians can gain a more complete understanding of child murder in the modern period if they pay attention not only to poverty and a stigma attached to illegit…
Engendering Whiteness
The Case of Miss Leila James B.A.”
Bonds of Empire
Bonds of Empire is part of a burgeoning literature that looks at the mutually reinforcing links between metropole and colonies. It examines the British identity of middle-class West Indians both at home and in the metropole from 1900 to the 1960s through a set of case studies: education, voluntary organization, wartime effort, radio broadcasting, and British royalty. The first part, which deals with the period up to the First World War, examines …
Contentious Liberties
Contentious Liberties: American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834–1866, by Gale L. Kenny, Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2010, xi + 212 pp., US$44.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-820
A True Maverick
This article examines the political career of the African-Jamaican Dr. Oswald E. Anderson from his entry into local politics in 1919 till his defeat in the first election under universal suffrage in 1944. It will demonstrate that Anderson differed from other black politicians at the time because of his criticism of Crown Colony government, commitment to the welfare of the masses, nationalist fervour and above all his outspokenness about racial di…
Facilitator or hindrance to social change? The Westminster model and racial discrimination on the Jamaican labour market, 1944–1980
Between 1944 and 1962, Jamaica witnessed a process of Westminsterisation. The Westminster model has the potential to bring about socio-economic change as its executive can move its policy agenda quickly through the legislature because it is created from a majority in the legislature's lower house. Yet it can also stifle change because of its lack of separation between the executive and legislative branches of government and other attributes. This…
Empire, Race and the Politics ofAnti-CasteCaroline BRESSEY
Coolie Woman
Coolie is a term that the British used for the indentured labourers they recruited from India to work on sugar plantations in the Caribbean after emancipation. Gaiutra Bahadur's great-grandmother S
Spencer Mawby, Ordering Independence
Colleen A. Vasconcellos. Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788–1838
Twenty years ago, Wilma King published Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America. Largely based on the slave narratives of the Federal Writers’ Project, this was the first book to offer a detailed examination of the lives of American slave children. Now Colleen Vasconcellos has attempted to provide a similar study for Jamaican slavery. However, because there are hardly any slave narratives for Jamaica, Slavery, Childhood and Abo…
The black scourge? Race and the Rockefeller Foundation's tuberculosis commission in interwar Jamaica
From 1927 to 1942, the Rockefeller Foundation ran a tuberculosis commission in Jamaica that researched the epidemiology of the disease, examined the efficacy of a vaccine with heat-killed tubercle bacilli, and offered basic treatment to tuberculosis sufferers. Drawing upon diaries and scientific writings by the staff employed by the commission, among other sources, this article explores the role that race played in the tuberculosis commission. It…
Political science (24 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (21 works) · History (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (11 works) · History (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Politics (9 works)