Abstracts… Going Back to the Roots: Using Cultural Heritage Assets to Boost Tourism in the Parish of Portland by Vivienne Theresa Pitter 29 Jul 201829 Jul 2018 This dissertation conducts an examination into issues of power and culture through the case of tourism in the parish of Portland. It evaluates the power structures that have privileged traditional…
Abstracts… From Traditional to ‘Community’ –Chronicling Kumina in the Modernizing Bath Dead-yard Space by Norman Westmoreland Pottinger 29 Jul 201829 Jul 2018 Dead-yard Kumina in St Thomas is one of the few traditional forms in Jamaica that have maintained some relevance as a wake ritual within a highly contested and changing dead-yard…
Abstracts… The Exotic, the Erotic and the National: The Black Male Body in the Photographs of Archie Lindo by O’Neil S. B. Lawrence 29 Jul 201829 Jul 2018 This study examines how the black male body is imagined in the art of Jamaica around Independence. Its case study is the photography of Archie Lindo, who was also a…
Abstracts… Emergence of Professional Theatre in Jamaica by Michael Washington Alexander Holgate 29 Jul 201829 Jul 2018 This dissertation explores the viability and development of a professional theatre culture in Jamaica by examining the models and aspects of professionalism already existing in Jamaican theatre.The study looks at…
Abstracts… Beyond The Classroom: Students’ Negotiation of Spaces and Cultural Expressions In Jamaican High Schools by Sonia Marcia Graham 29 Jul 201829 Jul 2018 The study explores how high school students negotiated non-academic school spaces within the broader context of youth cultural expressions. The research is a qualitative ethnographic study in which the researcher…
Abstracts… Fi Wi Cultural Studies: Film, Culture and Identity by Kam-Au Ron Amen 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 Who speaks for us? Can they speak for us? Can we relate to what they say? The motivations of this study are the concerns for identity assertion and representation through…
Abstracts… Christian Women’s Perceptions of Gender Roles and Behaviours, and Implications for Transforming Accepted Gender Norms in Jamaica by Karen Casilda Levy 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 This work identifies the extent to which Christian women subscribe to traditional gender roles and expectations in the private and public domain, and discusses, in light of the findings, the…
Abstracts… Early Reading Books and Jamaican Identity: Re-visiting a Postcolonial Perspective by Cecille Inez Maye-Hemmings 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 This thesis investigates the way in which Jamaicans have interacted with their primary level reading books at different periods, specifically with regard to the books’ impact on their identity formation.…
Abstracts… The Advancement of Women as Diplomatic Representatives Overseas: An Anglophone Caribbean Perspective by Dalton St. George Myers 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 Caribbean women in Antigua and Barbuda, The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Jamaica, have made significant progress in assuming leadership and decision-making positions in their respective foreign services.…
Abstracts… Plotting a Nation: Issues of Identity in Jamaican Theatre by Tanya Batson-Savage 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 ‘Plotting A Nation: Issues of Identity in Jamaican Theatre’ seeks to explore how issues of identity, which coalesce to form the concept of national identity, are explored in Jamaica’s theatrical…
