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Stigfur, Sophie, and Arvid Svenske. "Framställningen av HBTQ-personer under november 2015 i tre jamaicanska dagstidningar : The Jamaica Observer, The Jamaica Star och The Jamaica Gleaner." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-29528.
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Vi har undersökt hur HBTQ-personer framställs i tre jamaicanska dagstidningar under november 2015. Vårt intresseområde rör huruvida de jamaicanska medierna kan tänkas bidra till samt upprätthålla den stigmatiserade roll som HBTQ-personer har på Jamaica i dag. Syftet med studien är att undersöka och belysa de mekanismer som medierna medvetet eller omedvetet använder sig av i sin beskrivning av utsatta minoritetsgrupper, och vilka uttryck detta tar sig. För att undersöka detta har vi analyserat hur HBTQ-personer framställs, med utgångspunkter i tidigare forskning och teori. Vi har huvudsakligen använt oss av Erving Goffmans teori om stigmatisering samt Leonor Camauer och Stig Arne Nohrstedts teori om mediernas strukturella diskriminering. Vårt material består av 31 nyhetsartiklar som samlats in under november månad 2015 från Jamaicas tre största dagstidningar; The Jamaica Gleaner, The Jamaica Observer och The Jamaica Star. Samtliga nyhetsartiklar som på något sätt berört HBTQ-frågor har analyserats med hjälp av kvantitativ innehållsanalys. Tolv artiklar har även valts ut och studerats mer ingående med hjälp av kvalitativ textanalys. Vårt resultat visar att HBTQ-personer huvudsakligen framställs som en kontroversiell grupp som särbehandlas av samhället. Resultatet är inte entydigt men visar på två huvudsakliga linjer, dels fall där medierna framställer HBTQ-personer som orättvist behandlade och dels fall där den negativa särbehandlingen istället framställs som befogad. I det senare fallet anser vi att HBTQ-personernas diskriminerade ställning understöds av medierna, vilket tyder på att de i viss mån kan sägas bidra till stigmatiseringen av HBTQ-personer på Jamaica.
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Mullings, Robert. "Labour market adjustment in Jamaica." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13484/.
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The central purpose of this thesis is to explore the dimensions of labour market adjustment in Jamaica. The paper adopts a microeconometric approach, relying on new and more detailed Jamaica Labour Force Survey data for the period 1983-2006. Over this period, Jamaica has experienced significant expansion in its external trade which has been characterized by a severe import bias. Also, during this time, Jamaica's agricultural and manufacturing sectors experienced declines in their respective employment shares of 44% and 36% while service sectors expanded. One chapter of the thesis explores the empirical link between expanding trade flows and manufacturing labour market adjustment. The thesis also explores whether and to what extent sectoral labour market adjustment in Jamaica has been accommodated by an accompanying occupational transformation. Central to analyzing the issue of occupational adjustment however, is the careful definition of what constitutes a skill in order to elucidate the role of skill specificity in labour market adjustment. The thesis then investigates the incidence of unemployment in Jamaica in an attempt to identify key factors leading to escape from unemployment within a low skilled, high-unemployment, developing country context. The study finds an important role for worker characteristics, trade and industry information in affecting labour market adjustment in Jamaica. Using occupational skill definitions due to Dolton and Kidd (1998), the study also finds that most of the occupational and sectoral mobility in Jamaica, over the review period, took place among unskilled manual workers. As such, the Jamaican employed labour force experienced very little skill upgrading over the 24 year period covered. The very limited up-skilling observed over the review period was due to the emergence of relatively more highly skilled, sales and distribution related occupations. As far as adjustment costs are concerned, across all mobility types, simple sectoral moves were- in general, relatively less costly; with occupational transformation playing an accommodative role to the sectoral adjustment. Industry information, educational qualifications, geographic location, gender and the degree of skill specificity and were all critical determinants of the type of adjustment observed in the Jamaican labour market. Finally, the thesis underlines the very high incidence of long-term unemployment among uneducated, unskilled, young males in Jamaica. The study reveals negative duration dependence in the Jamaican labour market and suggests a critical role to be played by worker training in affecting unemployment escape probabilities.
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Smith, Phillip H. (Phillip Hoit) Carleton University Dissertation International Affairs. "The Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation and the Manley government 1972-1980; conflicting views of national development." Ottawa, 1988.
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Scott, P. J. B. "Infaunal invertebrates associated with live coral in Jamaica." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74004.
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Cross, John M. "Furniture in colonial Jamaica 1700-1830." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.414335.
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Acuña, Bugueño Constanza, González Diego Espinosa, and Numhauser Benjamín Puelma. "Plan de negocios : restructuración "Playa Jamaica." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2016. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/139620.
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Playa Jamaica es una tienda ubicada en la ciudad de La Serena, en un sector estratégico de la avenida del Mar, en concesión marítima otorgada por el Estado Chileno a partir de enero de 2013 y hasta 2020, renovable. Posee 400 metros cuadrados, donde se encuentra construida dos terrazas, un quiosco, servicios higiénicos y una cocina. Actualmente se atiende a la comunidad local y turistas, ofreciendo variedades de empanadas y jugos naturales, snacks, helados, cigarros, galletas y confites. También se ofrece servicios higiénicos para los veraneantes a un costo de $500. En el verano, debido a la masiva llegada de turistas a la cuarta región, Playa Jamaica tiene su mayor época de ingresos. Hoy en día durante el verano se pone música para los clientes que visitan el local, en un ambiente agradable y familiar, atendido por sus dueños. Creemos que como funciona actualmente el local, no está aprovechando la gran oportunidad que le genera el lugar donde está ubicado. Existe una demanda muy grande por distintos productos y servicios durante la época estival, la cual necesita tener un equilibrio con la oferta presentada, la que actualmente no cumple con lo necesario. Día a día, la vida sana y el deporte gana más adeptos dentro de Chile, con lo cual es un motivo para realizar una restructuración completa, ofreciendo a los ya típicos productos de empanadas y jugos, alternativas saludables de comida, junto con un conjunto de actividades de deporte y recreación que podamos ofrecer a los clientes y veraneantes. La reestructuración incluye una remodelación completa de como actualmente está dispuesto el local. Apertura de nuevas terrazas, una distinta organización y una oferta de una gran variedad de productos saludables relacionados a la vida sana y el deporte. Dentro de los puntos importantes a destacar, se quiere aprovechar el lugar donde se encuentra ubicado el local, un sector muy concurrido de la ciudad, para la venta de publicidad y apoyo de grandes empresas como auspiciadoras de las actividades deportivas que presentaremos
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Mullings, Beverley. "Industrial development in an era of structural adjustment : the growth of export informatic services in Jamaica." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=42104.
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Based on a case study of the export informatic$ sp1$ services industry, this dissertation examines the prospects for industrial development in Jamaica in the twenty first century. It contends that the island's current strategy of neo-liberal industrial restructuring will not bring about sustained development because it embodies macro-economic reforms that are incompatible with local, cultural and structural realities. Under structural adjustment, Jamaica has embarked upon policies that have been short-term in vision, un-coordinated and subject to the demands of local and global hegemonic groups. These policies have limited the expansion of this export sector and has encouraged forms of work organisation that are deeply exploitative of labour. In the case of the informatics sector, the pressure to satisfy IMF and World Bank macro-economic restructuring requirements, together with, inadequate finance and marketing support, and technical labour, has limited the potential of the sector to become a growth catalyst. Instead of becoming an industry that provides foreign exchange earnings, jobs and technical skills, informatics in Jamaica remains low in value added content, and reliant on sweated, female, low cost labour. The current organisation of work is particularly exploitative of women and their households who provide them with support. The strain that workers and their households sustain creates a vicious cycle, because as workers find ways to resist their employers demands, the industry loses its ability to compete globally. This dissertation concludes that the future of the industry will depend on the extent to which the industry is able to: provide local and foreign firms with equal opportunities to compete in global markets; develop higher value-added services and provide workers with better opportunities for personal and occupational development. I argue that improving the skills and knowledge base of the industry's labour force represents a first step in thi
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Hagelin, Christopher A. "Patterns of residence and inheritance of rural Rastafarians of Jamaica." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/958774.
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The objective of this thesis is to examine the patterns of residence and inheritance of rural Rastafarians of Jamaica. A historical materialist perspective is used to investigate the development of the matrifocal rural peasantry and the Rastafari movement, focusing on major economic changes which laid the foundation for the present cultural patterns. Ethnographic fieldwork was carried out from January to June 1995, in which a participantobservation methodology was used to gather data concerning patterns of residence and inheritance of 22 Rastafarians. The findings demonstrated that rural Rastas have difficulty practicing their ideal patrilineal patterns due to economic and material conditions; poverty and limited access to land impose limitations on patterns of residence and inheritance. Following a period of isolation after converting to the movement, Rastas generally must return to their mother's family to gain access to land and gardens or continue to squat in the mountains on government or private land.Department of Anthropology
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Dawkins, Janine Marie. "Analysis of stop-controlled intersections in the Caribbean : a case study of Kingston, Jamaica." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21524.
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Thomas, Desmond. "Effects of devaluation in a small open economy with application to Jamaica." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75994.
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This dissertation advances a model which assumes extreme openness characterised by the absence of nontradables. The pivotal relative price is the real wage which is of central importance in the analysis of devaluation. The model incorporates a simple supply function on the basis that the supply response to a devaluation cannot be taken for granted because of structural factors and unstable expectations characteristic of the transitional period following a devaluation. The effects of devaluation depend on a combination of factors among which are highlighted capitalists' expectations of future stability and the constraints on disabsorption. Our analysis underlines the need for financial assistance to sustain the adjustments associated with devaluation episodes. An econometric application of this model to Jamaica finds devaluation to be adverse both with respect to output growth and the trade balance.
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Collins, Lindsey. "Dissimulating women Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John and Autobiography of my mother /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0010833.
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Njopa-Kaba, Grace A. "African folklore and oral narrative in Jamaica /." Yaoundé : University of Yaoundé, Department of African literature, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37691371t.
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Young, Kevin Anthony. "Intersection : public place in a new Jamaica." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72308.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1995.Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-66).
Jamaica, a microcosm of the Caribbean and the developing world, is heir to an ambivalent legacy. While she benefits from a unique cultural tradition brought in part through colonialism, she suffers from the nihilistic tendency to imitate colonial socio-economic practices. The society thus becomes more and more polarized, and is poorer for it. The condition is a paradigm for architecture and urbanism. The city stratifies itself into political and economic zones, allowing for its own demise through the lack of communication and cross-fertilization. In anticipation of the city's continued explosion, the thesis explores the possibility of a new public place at which the separate social groups may converge. It will facilitate the accessibility of Jamaicans to their own diverse population, and foster self-pride as they recall and celebrate their traditions, accomplishments and ambitions. The program therefore consists of public facilities which bring Jamaican cultural traditions into relationship with each other. The complex is intended to be a multi- purpose sports/festival ground. Its focus will be a Museum of National Heritage. The site is National Heroes' Park, a 68 -acre oval which sits at the boundary of the parishes of Kingston and St. Andrew and marks the entrance to the old city of Kingston, capital of Jamaica. It originated as a horse-racing course in the 19th century but has been transformed successively over the years. Part of it is now dedicated as a shrine to Jamaica's National Heroes - the seven men and woman who were deemed to be instrumental in the building of the nation.
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Roper, O'Neil Ryan. "Building conditions and students' attainment in Jamaica." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2014. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/11072/.
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A growing body of research has established that there is a link between building conditions and students' academic performance--if the condition of the school facility is good the academic scores of students are likely to be higher than those schools that are in a bad state. However, there have been no previous studies into the relationship between building condition and students' attainment in countries like Jamaica; countries that are tropical, and have fast growing populations, low GDP, and where a poor performing economy is the norm. The aim of the study was to examine the findings of previous researchers to determine if the same variables they found that were associated with student attainment were also associated with students’ low academic performance in the Jamaican education system. The sample was 83 public high schools that taught Mathematics, English Language, Principles of Business, Principles of Accounts, Social Studies and Visual Arts. The survey instrument used was based on that developed by Cash (1993), however it was modified for use in the Jamaican context. After pilot testing, the high school principals were given the revised Commonwealth Assessment of Physical Environment (MCAPE) to assess building conditions. Their assessments were validated via a number of visits. Student achievement was measured by final examination scores collected from the Ministry of Education and derived from Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate Examination (CSEC) results. The variables were analysed using descriptive statistics, non-parametric tests, and multivariate analysis which were used to address the research questions. The important findings were that six of seventeen variables relating to school facilities showed strong, and usually statistically significant at p < .10, correlations with attainment, as did five of the six variables relating to noise generating facilities. There was an unexpected finding with regards to building age: an original contribution to knowledge of this research is that, contrary to studies in developed economies, it is older schools in Jamaica that tend to be in better condition; a finding school principals attribute to the assistance of Past Student Associations. The main issue now facing the Jamaican education system is that students’ academic performance are extremely low overall. This has challenged school administrators to determine the cause with a view to correcting this problem. This research will aid in solving the problem by highlighting possible factors that are associated with poor performing schools in Jamaica. The findings of this research will help to address built environment related problems in the education system. The research suggested other areas that could be researched and therefore can be used to determine the design and maintenance needs that have the greatest influence on the learning process.
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Northrop, Chloe Aubra. "Fashioning Society in Eighteenth-century British Jamaica." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc822729/.
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White women who inhabited the West Indies in the eighteenth century fascinated the metropole. In popular prints, novels, and serial publications, these women appeared to stray from “proper” British societal norms. Inhabiting a space dominated by a tropical climate and the presence of a large enslaved African population opened white women to censure. Almost from the moment of colonial encounter, they were perceived not as proper British women but as an imperial “other,” inhabiting a middle space between the ideal woman and the supposed indigenous “savage.” Furthermore, white women seemed to be lacking the sensibility prized in eighteenth-century England. However, the correspondence that survives from white women in Jamaica reveals the language of sensibility. “Creolized” in this imperial landscape, sensibility extended beyond written words to the material objects exchanged during their tenure on these sugar plantations. Although many women who lived in the Caribbean island of Jamaica might have fit the model, extant writings from Ann Brodbelt, Sarah Dwarris, Margaret and Mary Cowper, Lady Maria Nugent, and Ann Appleton Storrow, show a longing to remain connected with metropolitan society and their loved ones separated by the Atlantic. This sensibility and awareness of metropolitan material culture masked a lack of empathy towards subordinates, and opened the white women these islands to censure, particularly during the era of the British abolitionist movement. Novels and popular publications portrayed white women in the Caribbean as prone to overconsumption, but these women seem to prize items not for their inherent value. They treasured items most when they came from beloved connections. This colonial interchange forged and preserved bonds with loved ones and comforted the women in the West Indies during their residence in these sugar plantation islands. This dissertation seeks to complicate the stereotype of insensibility and overconsumption that characterized the perception of white women who inhabited the British West Indies in the long eighteenth century.
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Kauls, Angela L. "The impact of tourism on the physical environment of third world countries : a case study of Negril, Jamaica." Virtual Press, 1986. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/483413.
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Unplanned and rapid growth of tourism can be perilous to the natural and socio-cultural environment of communities and regions. Unplanned tourism can destroy the unique landscapes upon which it depends. This problem is particularly severe in third world nations which are hosting a new generation of tourism in hopes of economic survival.This paper presents a case study which supports the above contentions by identifying changes that have taken place in Negril, Jamaica, through a discussion of the causes and effects of rapid, poorly planned tourism development in that town. This provides the basic framework within which the author raises questions suggest ideas to promote more appropriate and culturally and sensitive changes in present land use policies in the city of Negril.Department of Landscape Architecture
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Clay, Coleen. "Adolescents and adults in Jamaica : an analysis of age, socioeconomic and sex difference (a dialectical view of social and political attitudes) /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1987. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10778317.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1987.Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Samuel Johnson. Dissertation Committee: William Sayres, Michael O'Brien, . Bibliography: leaves 163-180.
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Williams, Grace D. "An Evaluation of the low-income housing sector in Jamaica." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/13950.
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The following thesis addresses the need for low income housing in Jamaica with the purpose of evaluating the existing circumstances that influence the growth or decline of the low income housing industry. The focus is on identifying solutions that fuel growth. Research on the current state of low income housing in Jamaica and the programs that have been established to aid in the development of such housing, was carried out in the United States and in Jamaica. Questionnaires were developed and sent to individuals within the construction industry, targeting those who participate on low income housing projects. The results were collected, analyzed, described, and were used to extrapolate the research results. From this conclusions were drawn and recommendations made. Although Jamaica is considered a developing nation, in some advancement the island operates on a first world level. However, challenged by economic development, providing low income housing is limited by the resources available and the effectiveness of the programs implemented. This research attempts to create an overview of Jamaicas low income housing industry.
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Graham, Sarah. "An analysis of efficiency in banking : a case study of the People's National Cooperative Bank of Jamaica." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97401.
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Thesis (MDF)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research report is a case study of a rural agricultural cooperative bank, the People’s National Cooperative Bank (NPCB). The NPCB has its foundations in the early 1900s and today operates 37 branches across the island of Jamaica. Notwithstanding its history, the NPCB has continued to suffer from issues related to overall profitability and therefore has undergone various transformations and amalgamations of branches over the years. This study involves a comparative analysis of branch performance based on branch-specific financial data. Best and worst practice banks are identified along with their key characteristics in order to pinpoint areas of operations that may benefit from improvement. It is suggested that the variance in the level of efficiency with which resources are employed and incomes earned are factors which affect the level of performance of individual branches. The findings of the research indicate large variations in branch expenses, incomes and lending rates and suggest the need for further examination of branches on a case-by-case basis in order to better facilitate improvements in their respective levels of efficiency.
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Wigley, Georgina M. "Constraints on soil conservation in the Pindars River and Two Meetings Watersheds, Jamaica." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=64098.
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Willkie, Angelique. "In search of a greater measure of food security : food policy in Jamaica, 1972-1984." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=64060.
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Brancato, Sabrina. "Mother/Motherland in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/1661.
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The quest for an autonomous and authentic self is the founding theme of the narrative of Caribbean writer Jamaica Kincaid. In our study, we analyse the mother-daughter relationship, which is the focus of Kincaid's plots and which, as we argue, functions as a methaphor for the dialectic of power and powerlessness governing nature and history. On one level, we observe that the narrative articulates universal paradigms, such as the passage from a paradisiacal pre-oedipal union between mother and child to a painful but necessary breach for the affirmation of the child as a separate individual. On the other hand, placed in the specific context of the Caribbean in colonial times, the mother-daughter plot not only acquires a particular sociological interest, being explored in a set of interlocking relationships of race, class and gender, but it is one that can also read as an allegory of the conflict between the mother-country and the daughter-colony.
Both maternal power and imperial power are narcissistic since they demand acquiescence and imitation, while, in both cases, conflict arises at the first signs of emerging maturity. Mothering seems to be seen as a process of othering which produces alienation, and as the child has to negotiate a separation from the mother to become an autonomous individual, so the colony has to break free from the oppressive power of the mother country. In any event the process is a painful one and the final achievement of the goal is always imbued with the tremendous sense of loss that comes with freedom.
Thus, because Kincaid's understanding of the world passes through personal experience and is articulated in domestic terms, the autobiographical love-hate relationship between mother and daughter becomes the primal paradigm of life, whereby a politics of resistance to all forms of domination is envisaged as the basis of freedom at multiple levels, and alienation is used as a means of liberation.
The mother/motherland metaphor is played out at two levels. At one level, the nurturing and loving mother of childhood may represent the African-rooted Caribbean world, a world made of beauty and innocence where Kincaid's dramatis persona feels protected and happy. At the other level, in striking resemblance to Mother England, when the daughter starts to show signs of autonomy, the mother abandons praise and approval for scorn and begins a violent struggle to keep the daughter under her subjection. It seems, then, that two conflicting worlds, the African and the European, meet in the two-faced figure of the mother. In her quest for freedom, the daughter must fight against the overwhelming and oppressive power of the mother (biological and colonial), but in the end it is the mother (the nurturing mother of childhood / the African-rooted world) that provides her with the means for survival and self-affirmation.
NOTE: This doctoral thesis is also published on book. It will be avalaible on the Peter Lang Press before October 2005.
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Swire-Walton, Lena. "Knowledge base for teaching primary science in Jamaica." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0013/NQ59682.pdf.
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Smith, Richard William Peter. "Engendering race : Jamaica, masculinity and the Great War." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341728.
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Panton, David. "Employee ownership in Jamaica : a case study analysis." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:48bea8f3-98bf-4acd-94f5-539df66bdfa4.
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In March 1994, the Jamaican Parliament passed the Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP) Act, to facilitate widespread employee share ownership by granting tax incentives to companies that offer shares to their employees (GOJ 1994). The primary aims of the legislation were to (a) strengthen Jamaica's economy by enabling workers to acquire an ownership stake in their employer and (b) improve the economic performance of Jamaican companies by encouraging employees to identify more closely with the goals of their employers (GOJ 1993). Former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley, who introduced the ESOP legislation into Parliament, explained that organizational rather than ideological goals were the primary aims of the legislation. He explained that "in due course larger goals such as broadening the base of ownership and giving workers a wider stake in the national economy will also be achieved through ESOPs. But the first objective must be to increase productivity at the company level" (Manley 1995:17). Prior to the passage of this legislation, several employee ownership schemes had been implemented by Jamaican companies on a limited and ad hoc basis without the support of legislation (GOJ 1993). Despite the introduction of these earlier schemes, however, the concept of employee ownership is still a new one to Jamaica and little research has been conducted on how the pre-legislation employee ownership schemes were implemented or how they affected the implementing companies. Although consultants to the government examined these companies and used them as models in drafting the ESOP legislation, the consultants performed no academic studies to examine the organizational impact of the employee share schemes (Golding; Maharaj Interviews). Similarly, several academic studies have been conducted on employee ownership in the US, the UK, and a few other countries, but no formal academic studies of employee ownership have been conducted in Jamaica. These omissions are unfortunate given the interest in ESOPs expressed by the Jamaican government and the desired political, economic, and organizational effects of introducing employee ownership schemes.
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Dalling, James William. "Regeneration on landslides in the Blue Mountains, Jamaica." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240015.
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Mezahav, Amatzya. "Radio and structural adjustment in Fairy Hill, Jamaica /." view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3018383.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 216-269). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3018383.
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Ringenberg, Roger. "A history of Jamaica Theological Seminary, 1960-1992." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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Chin, Bertram. "A program for cross-cultural mission in Jamaica." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.
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Dempster, Monica. "Teacher Educators' Perception of Character Education in Jamaica." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/501109.
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This was a multi-case qualitative study, designed to investigate teacher educators’ perception of character education in Jamaica and how they enact character education in their classrooms. The study provided a localized version to the vast amount of research that has been conducted on character education in developed countries. Against the background of the significant role of teacher education, the study provided important insights regarding how teacher educators perceived, and enacted character education. Given the abstract nature of character education, a seven-point Likert scale questionnaire and two short cases were used to guide the interviews with the fifteen teacher educators’ who were purposively selected to take part in the study. Artifacts provided by the teacher educators, provided additional data for study. The responses on the questionnaire ranged from strongly agree through to strongly disagree. The data were analysed using the thematic approach. The data generated from the instruments were collated and attributed to the themes and major research questions to which they were aligned. The findings revealed that teacher educators’ perception of character education was closely aligned to the authoritative perception. The commonly shared view among participants was that character education is a means of instilling in children and young people the traditional values of the society and teaching them good manners. It was found that the older participants hold that character education is the process of teaching young people to be respectful, caring and to have good manners, especially to their elders. The younger participants hold that character education should focus on teaching young people the values and attitudes that will help them to live successfully in community, where there is mutual respect between all members of that community. They explained that the goal of character education should therefore be to equip young people with the ability to make right decisions and excel at what they do, rather than become obedient, subservient members of the society. All fifteen respondents strongly agreed with the authoritative perception, that people do not naturally develop good character and are therefore in need of correction. Twelve of the fifteen participants also revealed that their belief that human beings do not naturally develop good character is further supported by the experiences they have gained observing and relating to other human beings. The findings also revealed that except for Guidance Counselors, teacher educators did not formally teach character education. The teacher educators described their character education activities as informal and reactive. Informal because they did not usually go to their classes with a plan to teach character education, and reactive because many of their explicit character education actions were in response to the undesirable or inappropriate behaviours of their students. Their character education actions included correcting undesirable behaviours and modeling appropriate behaviours. Most of the teacher educators supported the direct didactic approach as the more effective approach to the teaching of character education and believed that pre service teachers are inadequately prepared for the task of character education.
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Nkrumah-Young, K. "Exploring financing options for higher education in Jamaica." Thesis, University of Bath, 2005. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.555741.
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The government of Jamaica (GOJ) funds seventeen tertiary level institutions (TLIs) inclusive of two Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). An initial review of the funding to these institutions suggested that the allocations were arbitrary as there were no correlation with their enrolment and missions. This led to the identification of the financing policies for HE which gave rise to the main question “What are the consequences (intended and unintended) of the different models adopted by Jamaica for the financing of higher education?” Also in tracing the evolution of HE in Jamaica four sub-questions arouse which were: 1. What are the consequences of an unchanged financing model for a system that has shifted from a single provider to diverse providers? 2. What are the consequences of financing both a national higher education system and a regional one?
3. What were the philosophical underpinnings to the allocation of resources to HE in Jamaica?
4. What models are available to the Jamaican government for allocating resources to HE? The fourth sub-question was used as the basis for the literature search and review. The issues of equity and efficiency were identified from the review as the main reasons for the state involvement in financing HE. Frameworks for analysing the consequences of the various Jamaican policies were also built from the study of the literature. The other questions were used as the background to the discussion and recommendations. Ground theory was the strategy of inquiry. The research drew on the views of Punch (1998) that the research questions and problems should direct the research instead of ones knowledge claim. Using interviews and documents and following the multiple processes of coding analysing and recoding as well as the use of the inductive logic, the research eventually identified some theoretical underpinnings which informed the recommendations for changes to the financing and resource allocation methodology for the Jamaican HE system.
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de, Noronha Luke. "Deporting 'Black Britons' : portraits of deportation to Jamaica." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:80610ce1-339a-42ec-afea-7d627a1d410b.
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This thesis explores the life stories of four men who were deported from the UK to Jamaica following interaction with the criminal justice system. All four men, having moved as children, spent roughly half of their lives in the UK. For each of the men, deportation was lived as exile from home - from parents, partners, children and friends - and the thesis provides portraits of their lives in the UK and in Jamaica. In particular, it examines processes of criminalisation, illegalisation and racialisation as they interact to construct deportable subjects. This thesis asks what these life stories can tell us about the relationship between immigration control and racism. Fieldwork was conducted in Jamaica with deported persons, and in the UK with friends and family members. As such, this is an ethnography of absences and disjunctures. In the ethnographic portraits, themes of illegality, culture, gender, police racism, citizenship, and the legal construction of family life emerge, and reading the portraits together provides a rich account of racism in multi-status Britain. Ultimately, the thesis argues that immigration controls reconfigure race in the present. Moving from the UK to Jamaica, the thesis argues that borders produce racial meanings at local, national and global scales, because racial hierarchy is intimately connected to citizenship regimes and the differential mobilities they organise. Examining the racial work that borders do provides a historically specific account of race and racism, and one which centres the state. The thesis argues that even the most local of encounters, played out in particular lives, in specific times and places, are connected to the ordering of space, mobility and population through border regimes. It also argues that when challenging citizenship and border regimes, it is essential that we find new ways to theorise kinship. Based on detailed ethnographic portraits, this thesis provides a wide-ranging intervention into studies of race, migration and citizenship.
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Lewis, Jovan Scott. "Sufferer's market : sufferation and economic ethics in Jamaica." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3497/.
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In Jamaica the economic environment is characterized by abiding foreign dependence, stagnant growth, and deficient development. This thesis, based on fifteen months of fieldwork in Montego Bay is concerned with the everyday understanding and management of Jamaica's adverse economy. This is explored through an ethnographic analysis of economic practice among five groups variously involved in Montego Bay's tourist sector. These groups include Sindhi merchants, local craft vendors, an artisan cooperative, a Rastafarian tour village, and local lottery scammers. Their dynamic case studies illustrate a diverse set of responses to the constricted political, economic, and social structures of the Jamaican economy, depicted as one of comprehensive and inescapable precariousness, or as a state of sufferation. This thesis examines these groups' everyday strategies and ethics of survival in sufferation, which include articulations of market failure, production, commercial skill, cultural property, and capital seizure. From these strategies emerges an understanding of how notions of history, citizenship, race, and cooperation structure the formation of economic practice, and bear upon constructions of the market.
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Yassine-Diab, Nadia. "Aliénation et réinvention dans l'œuvre de Jamaica Kincaid." Toulouse 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010TOU20073.
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L’écriture caribéenne entretient un double rapport avec la culture des anciens colons, oscillant entre résistance et imitation, déterritorialisation et reterritorialisation, aliénation et réinvention. Jamaica Kincaid est dans une relation dynamique avec son héritage littéraire et historique. Elle explore les limites des différents genres, et place l'intermédialité et la transgénéricité au cœur de son écriture. Elle refuse de ce fait toute inféodation à une forme donnée. Son écriture se veut donc postcoloniale au sens politique plus qu'historique du terme. A l'instar de Kincaid elle-même, les personnages kincaidiens explorent les limites entre filiation et affiliation : face à l'aliénation de la jeune fille dans la relation à sa mère, elle met en place des stratégies de réappropriation. Réappropriation du corps, qui mène à la réinvention du moi, mais aussi réappropriation de l'histoire et de l'espace. Kincaid est elle-même à la recherche d'un espace artistique dans lequel se réinventer : photographie, peinture et jardinage se mêlent ainsi à son écriture, et s'ajoutent à diverses stratégies de réappropriation et de décolonisation de la langue. Elle écrit dans la langue de l'oppresseur et la subvertit, introduisant ainsi un enchevêtrement de langues différentes dans son espace textuelCaribbean literature maintains a dual relationship with the culture of the former colonizers, hesitating between resistance and imitation, deterritorialization and reterritorialization, alienation and reinvention. Jamaica Kincaid's connection with her literary and historical heritage is a dynamic one. She tests the limits of different genres, placing intermediality and transgenericity at the heart of her writing and thereby avoiding subjection to any given form. Her writing is postcolonial in the political more than the historical sense. Like Kincaid herself, the characters explore the boundaries between filiation and affiliation, adopting strategies of reappropriation to respond to their alienation in their relationships with their mothers. Their reclaiming of their bodies leads to self-reinvention, and to the reappropriation of history and space. Kincaid herself searches for an artistic space in which to reinvent herself. She combines photography, painting, and gardening with writing, adopting different strategies for reappropriating and decolonizing language. She writes in the oppressor's tongue and subverts it, combining different voices in the space of her texts
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Gibbison, Godfrey A. "Family Structure and Human Capital Formation in Jamaica." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/79724.
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In the last 30 years the Jamaican government has invested substantially in education at the primary and secondary levels by providing a large number of inputs, including trained teachers. Still, many children are illiterate after completing primary school, and a large number of teenagers leave secondary school without acquiring a skill. The educational attainment of Jamaican children is low in absolute terms, and in comparison to other Caribbean nations. This breakdown in the uptake of education cannot be explained by lack of physical inputs. This dissertation focuses on the dynamics of the household by posing the question: Is the educational achievement of children with unmarried mothers different than that of children with married mothers? This is a potentially important question for Jamaica, since 80% of children are born out of wedlock and the probability of having married parents at age 15 is just 50 percent. It was found that children whose mothers are unmarried had lower cognitive achievement than children with married mothers, that in certain cases the disparity accentuates over time, and that children with unmarried mothers are also less likely to be attending high school.
A large number of women in Jamaica complete most or all of their fertility out of wedlock. Yet, many of these women enter marriages at a late age (between 35 and 50 years old). These marriages sometimes evolve from current domiciliary relationships, but quite often they do not. In this study, one possible motivation for these late marriages is explored. It is proposed that women with smart children enter late marriages as a way of securing funds to invest in the education of these children. They are motivated to do so because, in the absence of old-age protection in Jamaica, smart children are a good way to store consumption for one's old age. This hypothesis was supported by the data.Ph. D.
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Andrew, Jennan P. "Intimate Partner Violence in LBTQ Relationships in Jamaica." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1585232198183695.
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Bennett, Hazel E. "A history of libraries in Jamaica, 1697-1987." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1987. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7497.
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The History traces the development of libraries in Jamaica from the late seventeenth century to the present day. It examines reasons for the spate of anti-popery material in the earliest collections, and treats the subsequent story within the context of socio-economic conditions. Note is taken of the efforts of Ministers of Religion to inculcate the habit of reading among both the white and black population, as a means of improving their minds and strengthening their moral fibre. Increasing respect for books and demand for information appear, as the country puts aside its colonial status and assumes responsibility for its own destiny. The History documents the growth of the Jamaica Library Service, the emergence of the National Library of Jamaica, and the establishment of NACOLADS (the National Council on Libraries, Archives and Documentation Services) now regarded as a model for such development in the Third World.
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Lyn, Heather D. "Self-perceptions of low and high achieving students in Jamaica, W. I." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23227.
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This study investigated the self-perceptions of low and high achieving adolescent students in a rural community of Jamaica, W.I. The effects of achievement level and sex were considered.The participants were 95 low achieving students and 100 high achieving students who were rigidly tracked into two separate schools. The survey instrument, "How I See Myself and Feel About Myself" was specially designed for this study. Student responses were compared to the subscales from Harter's Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents (1988).
The results revealed twelve self-perception categories, four of which were unique to the Jamaican adolescents. High achievers referred more frequently to academic competence, romantic appeal, and close friendship. Low achievers referred more frequently to behavioral conduct. Overall, male students referred more frequently to scholastic competence, athletic competence and behavioral conduct. Female students referred more frequently to social acceptance, romantic appeal, close friendship and family relations.
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Brief, Dominique Ariane. "Ecotourism as a conservation strategy in Black River, Jamaica." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20807.
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Nature-based tourism is proposed as a conservation strategy in both the developed and developing world, yet few empirical studies exist examining how the conservation process is achieved. An emerging nature-based tourism industry in Black River, Jamaica was studied to determine the factors involved in creating a symbiotic tourism-environment relationship. The tourism-environment relationship brings into play many stakeholders and at the local level these include the tour developers, conservation authorities, the natural environment, the host population and the visiting public. In this study, surveys of tour developers, conservation authorities and the host population indicate that Black River nature-based tourism is degrading the natural and host environment. To modify this outcome of resource degradation adequate administrative arrangements must be established to disengage the elite growth process in favor of a more equitable distribution among a majority of stakeholders. Surveys of the visiting public indicate satisfaction of this consumer group and provide detailed information to guide marketing and management strategies for further improvement of the tour product. Recommendations are presented to strengthen the link between nature-based tourism and conservation of the environment.
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Richards, Johanna. "Drought assessment tools for agricultural water management in Jamaica." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=97212.
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Increasing urban development, in addition to changing climatic conditions, are just a few of the factors negatively impacting Jamaica's water resources. Therefore, conceptual tools are required for the management of water resources during water scarce conditions. Such tools include drought indices, irrigation requirement guidelines and computer simulation models for irrigation planning.Monthly irrigation demands were calculated for three sites in Jamaica: Savanna-la-mar in the parish of Westmoreland, Beckford Kraal in the parish of Clarendon, and Serge Island in the parish of St. Thomas. This was done using simulated monthly available soil moisture values averaged over a 30 year period, for both vegetables and sugarcane. The greatest irrigation demands were found to be in the dry period of January to April, as well as July to August for Savanna-la-mar and Beckford Kraal. Serge Island, however, needs irrigation throughout the year. Two drought indices, the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), were used for the study sites. Both indices were correlated to simulated monthly available soil moisture. It was found that the relationship between each index and soil moisture varies from month to month, with drier months resulting in better correlations than wet months. Predicted available soil moisture values have been calculated for the different SPI categories. It was found that available soil moisture is lowest in the months of March and April. In addition, irrigation requirements were determined for the Moderately Dry and Severely Dry SPI categories of drought in the drier months of the year, for the three study locations, for both vegetables and sugarcane.SWAT was used to model the hydrology of the Rio Nuevo watershed in St. Mary, Jamaica. SWAT was calibrated and validated using measured streamflow data from the period 2002 to 2007, and achieved satisfactory model performance, with a Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency of 0.78 for calibration and 0.52 for validation. The SWAT model results were used to determine streamflow capacity for irrigation demands in an agricultural sub-basin of the watershed, and it was found that during the drought year of 2000, there was not enough streamflow to meet irrigation demands of January and March.L'augmentation du développement urbain et les changements climatiques ne sont que deux des multiples facteurs ayant un impact néfaste sur les ressources hydriques de la Jamaïque. A cet effet, des outils conceptuels sont nécessaires à la gestion des eaux en période de sécheresse. De tels outils sont par exemple les indices de sécheresse, les guides d'irrigation et les planificateurs d'irrigation (par exemple le SWAT, Soil and Water Assessment Tool). Les demandes nettes en irrigation de trois sites jamaïcains ont été calculées: Savanna-la-mar (Westmoreland), Beckford Kraal (Clarendon) et Serge Island (St-Thomas). Ces calculs sont basés sur les moyennes des conditions mensuelles d'humidité disponible des soles, échelonnées sur une période de trente ans et en provenance de sites où sont produits des légumes et de la canne à sucre. La période sèche de janvier à avril connait les plus grandes demandes d'irrigation. La période de juillet à août pour les sites de Savanna-la-mar et Beckford Kraal connait aussi des demandes importantes. Le site de Serge Island a besoin d'irrigation tout au long de l'année. Deux indices de sécheresse ont été développés pour les sites d'études : l'Indice de Précipitation Standardisé (IPS) et l'Indice de Végétation de Différence Normalisée (IVDN). Tous deux ont été corrélés afin de simuler l'humidité mensuelle disponible des soles. Les résultats démontrent que la relation entre chaque index et l'humidité des soles varie de mois en mois, les mois plus secs offrant de meilleures corrélations que les mois plus humides. Les prédictions d'humidités disponibles des soles ont été calculées pour les différentes catégories d'IPS. L'humidité disponible des soles est au plus bas pour les mois de mars et d'avril. De plus, les demandes en irrigation pour la production de légume et de canne à sucre ont été déterminées pour les catégories d'IPS Modérément Sec et Sévèrement Sec de sécheresse dans les mois plus secs de l'année, et ce dans les trois sites étudiés. SWAT a été utilisé pour modeler l'hydrologie du basin versant de Rio Nuevo dans la région de St-Mary en Jamaïque. SWAT a été calibré et validé en utilisant des mesures de débit couvrant la période 2002 à 2007. Les performances du modèle sont considérées satisfaisantes, ayant obtenu une Efficacité Nash-Sutcliffe de 0.78 pour la calibration et de 0.52 pour la validation. Les résultats obtenus ont été utilisés afin de déterminer les capacités du débit à répondre aux demandes d'irrigation d'un bassin inférieur du bassin versant. Il a été déterminé que pour la sécheresse de 2000, le débit était insuffisant et ne pouvait répondre aux demandes d'irrigation de janvier à mars.
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Brief, Dominique Ariane. "Ecotourism as a conservation strategy in Black River, Jamaica." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0005/MQ44133.pdf.
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Nelson, Francesca Linnea. "International agricultural trade liberalization and food security in Jamaica." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320863.
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Gomes, Shelene. "The social reproduction of Jamaica Safar in Shashamane, Ethiopia." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2548.
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Since the 1950s, men and women, mainly Rastafari from the West Indies, have moved as repatriates to Shashamane, Ethiopia. This is a spiritually and ideologically oriented journey to the promised land of Ethiopia (Africa) and to the land granted by His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I. Although migration across regions of the global south is less common than migration from the global south to north, this move is even more distinct because it is not primarily motivated by economic concerns. This thesis - the first in-depth ethnographic study of the repatriate population - focuses on the conceptual and pragmatic ways in which repatriates and their Ethiopian-born children “rehome” this area of Shashamane that is now called Jamaica Safar (or village in the Amharic language). There is a simultaneous Rasta identification of themselves as Ethiopians and as His Majesty’s people, which is often contested in legal and civic spheres, with a West Indian social inscription of Shashamane. These dynamics have emerged from a Rastafari re-invention of personhood that was fostered in West Indian Creole society. These ideas converge in a central concern with the inalienability of the land grant that is shared by repatriates, their children and Rastafari outside Ethiopia as well. Accordingly, the repatriate population of Shashamane becomes the centre of international social and economic networks. The children born on this land thus demonstrate the success of their parents’ repatriation. They are the ones who will ensure the Rastafari presence there in perpetuity.
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La, Corbiniere Bernard F. C. "Financing economic growth and development in Jamaica : 1960-1992." Thesis, University of Kent, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244344.
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Chunnu, Winsome M. "Whither Are We Drifting? Primary Education Policy in Jamaica." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1242393465.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, June, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. Release of full electronic text on OhioLINK has been delayed until June 1, 2014. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 280-293)
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Beal, Michelle Collette. "Jamaica Kincaid and the Rewriting of Other as Self." W&M ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626172.
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Dawkins, J. S. "The Dawkins family in Jamaica and England, 1664-1833." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10049467/.
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This thesis focuses on the Jamaican and English history of the Dawkins’ and explores the relationship between their slave-owning activities and their subsequent entrance into the metropole’s landed ranks. It demonstrates how one particular family were able to establish themselves as wealthy sugar planters on one side of the Atlantic, whilst its later generations migrated to England and drew upon the West Indian fortune to transform themselves into members of elite county society during the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-centuries. Central to this thesis is an analysis of the Dawkins’ Jamaican plantation papers and their English estate records. It traces their colonial land building activities from the earliest days of their settlement on the island, during the mid-seventeenth-century, in an effort to understand how the foundations of their wealth were established by the first two generations of the family. By the middle of the eighteenth-century they had amassed a fortune large enough to allow the third generation to become absentees. The scene shifts from Jamaica to England where the family, headed by Henry Dawkins II, focussed on becoming part of Britain’s provincial elite after migrating to the metropole in the late 1750s. They engaged in a number of undertakings strategically designed to facilitate this blending which are explored across four chapters. These include the construction and development of country estates, marriage into established landed families, the acquisition of political office, and the re-crafting of their image to that of a refined genteel family. The examination of these undertakings sheds light on the different areas into which colonial fortunes spilled over as the profits from the Dawkins’ slave-based enterprise “came home”.
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Feloney, Michael L. (Michael Lawrence). "Neighborhood stabilization in Jamaica Plain : patterns, responses, and prospects." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66192.
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Campbell, Yonique. "Citizenship, security, and the politics of reform in Jamaica." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654990.
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This thesis examines the relationship between practices of citizenship and the challenges associated with the pursuit of, and threats to, security of individuals in contemporary Jamaica. This approach is accompanied by an unpacking of the ways in which people, occupying different spaces in Jamaican society, position themselves vis-a-vis the state. I argue that the security problem in Jamaica has to be understood in the context of a widening citizenship deficit, and the fact that there is a separate way, outside of the formal context of the state, of pursuing citizenship at the community level in what are referred to as garrison communities. This separate way has emerged in response to the failure of the Jamaican state to provide both citizenship and security to its most disadvantaged and disenfranchised members. The state, the legal rights it is expected to provide, and the universalistic discourses which form the basis of citizenship in the West, have not served as the primary means by which citizenship has been constituted for all Jamaicans. The character citizenship assumes is rooted in Jamaica's colonial past, and since the postcolonial period has been tied to a rather uneven and unequal developmental trajectory, influenced by colour/class relations, spatial formation, political culture and identity, as well as neoliberal policies and noticeable state failures. Through extralegal, dialectic, and contested practices, garrison communities have become essential sites for realising citizenship. The local practices that inform the social order of the garrisons are decidedly in conflict with, and contest, the state's legal-rational institutions, calling its legitimacy and the veracity of the social contract - derived from Rousseau - into question. The theme of the thesis is pursued through an in-depth, multi-sited study, carried out in three communities, that explore the particularities, the everyday security experiences and discourses of people occupying different places and spaces in Jamaican society, and through consideration of the security policies and perspectives of policy elites and policy managers.
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Graham, Greg A. "POSTCOLONIAL TRAGEDY: JAMAICA AND SOUTH AFRICA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/168914.
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This dissertation argues that political tragedy--the circumstance in which the efforts of political heroes and their people's struggle to effect their societal ideals achieve the opposite outcomes with politically nihilistic consequences--is a feature of the recent attempts to establish viable democratic societies in the postcolonies of Jamaica and South Africa. The political tragedy that it puts forward is in this sense democratic political tragedy. The author examines G.W.F. Hegel's discussion of tragedy as the founding modern example of its treatment in political theory. After addressing its formal, Hegelian foundations, democratic political tragedy in the postcolony is shown to be a telling disjunction between the pursuit of the imperatives of economic growth and immersion in the global economy on the one hand, and the abiding quest for meaningful distributive social justice and national sovereignty on the other. The author argues that popular democratic expectations of the political imagination and creativity of historically oppressed and marginalized populations of Jamaica and South Africa have been aroused by tragic leadership figures. Jamaica under Michael Manley over the course of the 1970s and South Africa under the stewardship of Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1999 provide the case studies against which the theory is tested. In both instances, the contemporary situation of those countries reveal the tragic course from solidarity and hope to despair under the weight of neoliberal regimes of radicalized inequalities and political disenfranchisement.
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