CINEMA IN JAMAICA - LEGACY OF THE HARDER THEY COME

Cinema in Jamaica - Legacy of The Harder They Come

Washcloths Mainstream cinema representing Jamaica and Jamaicans has always made use of clichés and stereotypes.The emergence of a local Jamaican cinema—beginning in 1972 with Perry Henzell’s movie—immediately started to give a new image of the country and its inhabitants.From The Harder They Come up to most recent movies, Jamaican cinema has

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Large-scale mining and ecological imperialism in Africa: the politics of mining and conservation of the ecology in Ghana

The article draws on the insights of political ecology to illuminate the politics shaping the enforcement of environmental regulation in the mining sector of Ghana.We argue that the Ghanaian state uses strong-arm measures against artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) operators, particularly, the subaltern classes engaged in the industry for surviv

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