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Chapter 59 575 The Gendered Politics and Violence of Structural Adjustment: A View from Jamaica END OF STORY WITHIN A STORY-FOR NOW has led me to reconceptualize analytical units and boundaries in ways that discern and utilize points of articulation and conjuncture between, for instance, Beulah Brown and myself, and Jamaica and the U.S., for a deeper, more broadly situated, and more personally grounded understanding of structural adjustment's gendered assaults—its invidious struc- tural violence. to me about the prohibitive costs of living and the Tired from feeling the weight of her 63 years, espe- cially the past 10 of them, Mrs. Brown complained unjust formula being used to devalue the Jamaican dollar so as to make the economy more penetrable for foreign investment. “And all at the people's expense!” As we waited at the airport for my departure time, she remarked that she didn't know how she could have made it through all her trials and tribulations if REFERENCES it weren't for the grace of God who gave her industry, creativity, and a loving family as gifts; her church, upon which she had always been able to depend for both spiritual guidance and material aid; and Blessed Sacrament School, its PTA, and the various other activities and community services based on the grounds of that strategic local sanctuary from political warfare and economic desperation. [...] I am back home now, but I can't help but think—and worry-about Beulah and Oceanview in light of the global restructuring that affects life in the Caribbean as well as in the U.S., where the implementation of first world versions of structural adjustment are being felt and confronted. The eco- nomic restructuring occurring in the U.S. is only a variation on a wider structural adjustment theme reverberating across the globe. Policies implemented in the U.S. resemble the austerity measures the IMF and World Bank are imposing on “develop- ing” nations: cutbacks in social spending and public investments in housing, education, and health care; Antrobus, Peggy. 1989. Crisis, Challenge, and the Experiences of Caribbean Women. Caribbean Quarterly 35(1&2):17–28. Basch, Linda, Nina Glick Schiller, and Cristina Szanton Blanc. 1994. Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation-States. Langhorne: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. Bolles, A. Lynn. 1991. Surviving Manley and Seaga: Case Studies of Women's Responses to Structural Adjustment Policies. Review of Radical Political Economy 23(3&4):20–36. D'Amico-Samuels, Deborah. 1991. Undoing Fieldwork: Personal, Political, Theoretical, and Methodological Implications. In Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further toward an Anthropology for Liberation. Ed. Faye V. Harrison. Washington: American Anthropological Association. Deere, Carmen Diana, et al. 1990. In the Shadows of the Sun: Caribbean Development Alternatives and U.S. Policy. Boulder: Westview Press. Enloe, Cynthia. 1989. Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press. Ferguson, James. 1992. Jamaica: Stories of Poverty. Race & Class 34(1):61–72. Harrison, Faye V. 1987a. Crime, Class, and Politics in Jamaica. TransAfrica Forum 5(1):29–38. Harrison, Faye V. 1987b. Gangs, Grassroots Politics, and the Crisis of Dependent Capitalism in Jamaica. In Perspectives in U.S. Marxist Anthropology. Ed. David Hakken and Hanna Lessinger. Boulder: Westview Press. deregulation of airline, trucking, banking, finance, and broadcasting industries; corporate union-busting; currency devaluation; divestment of public enterprises; the increasing privatization of public services; and dramatic alterations of the tax system, shifting the tax burden away from wealthy individuals and large corporations (Sparr 1992, 30-31). Probing the political and moral economy of poverty in "the field” (cf. D'Amico-Samuels 1991)
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Harrison, Faye V. "The gendered politics and violence of structural adjustments: A view from
Jamaica." Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life, Routledge, 2014, pp. 570-573.
Author(s): Faye Harrison is a professor in anthropology and African American studies. Because of her
extensive qualification, she currently teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Harrison’s endeavors have made to be recognized globally. For instance, she won study awards as a
sociocultural anthropologist in human rights, intersection of race, gender, social inequalities, and class.
Furthermore, she is widely published in topical issues that include political violence, structural
adjustment policies, among others.
Thesis/Main Point: The adoption and imposing of structural adjustments policies and the
implementation of programs by the World Bank and IMF in Jamaica has rendered various Jamaican
residents poorer; leading to mayhems that promote gendered politics and violence (Harrison 570).
An ethnographic window on a crisis
The state of affairs in a downtown district in Kingston involving socioeconomic austerity in Oceanview
deteriorated beyond repair. For instance, the unemployment rate stood at 74 percent. The structural
adjustment policies and programs formulated by the IMF and the World Bank to stabilize the country
only made things worse. The basic needs for the poor, such as health care, education, social services,
housing, among others were sacrifices at the expense of implementation programs brought forth by IMF
and the World Bank. As a result of political turbulence often pitting PNP and JLP, the cost of liv...


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