Kidnapping go build back we economy
Discourses of crime at work in neoliberal Trinidad
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2267938 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Prentice (0000-0002-8178-8156, University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-64 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2011.01730.x |
| OpenAlex | W1935916555 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 17 |
Drawing on participant observation in garment factories in Trinidad, West Indies, this article explores circulating discourses of crime among shop-floor workers, managers, and factory owners during a national 'epidemic' of kidnappings-for-ransom. As sites of inescapable social heterogeneity, garment factories were experienced as places of potentially risky mixture between antagonistic categories of people. Kidnapping talk communicated this fear of social proximity while simultaneously heightening it. The everyday politics of labour under a neoliberal regime is shown to be not a universalizing experience but instead a deeply local and situated one.RésuméÀ partir d'une observation participante dans des ateliers de confection de Trinité, dans les Caraïbes, l'article explore les discours sur la criminalité circulant parmi les ouvriers, les gérants et les propriétaires des ateliers au cours d'une «épidémie » nationale d'enlèvements avec demande de rançon. Les ateliers de confection, lieux d'une hétérogénéité sociale inévitable, étaient alors perçus comme le creuset d'un mélange potentiellement dangereux entre des catégories de personnes antagonistes. Les histoires de kidnapping ont propagé cette crainte de la proximité sociale tout en l'intensifiant. L'auteure montre que la politique quotidienne du travail sous un régime néolibéral n'est pas une expérience universalisante, mais plutôt profondément locale et fortement située
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2020 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |