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… Interrogating Notions of Gender and Hegemonic Masculinity in Jamaica: The Case of the Woman Ballers! by Karen D. Madden 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 This paper examines the issue of gender and hegemonic masculinity through the lens of football in Jamaica. The paper seeks to interrogate notions of hegemony as it relates to gender…
Abstracts… Vocal Styles in Jamaica: A Study of Hegemonic Dissolution Displayed in Popular Music Culture and the Role Society Played in Informing Them by Nadine Theresa Simone Sutherland 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 One of the strongest tools in recognizing an individual is their voice. The voice is “the sound made by passing air out through the larynx and tensing the vocal cords.”…
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… Jazz in the Caribbean and its Influence on the Wider Society. An Exploration of the Cultural Elements that went into the Creation of Jazz: Markers of Identity by Merna Hague Bradshaw 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 In the 1940’s Jazz underwent a transformation instigated by the return to source of musicians disenchanted with the musical cul-de-sac that Swing had played itself into. Looking for inspiration and…
Abstracts… Sell off or Sell Out?: Experiential Marketing Using the Massive Jamaican Dancehall Market, 2005 – 2015 by Melville Brenton Cooke 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 In April 2005 the Coalition of Corporate Sponsors banned Jamaican deejays Beenie Man and Bounty Killer from events they supported, after the two cursed while criticising homosexuals during a live…
Abstracts… Sounds of Reggae Revolution: Revisiting Peter Tosh’s Cultural Legacy by Racquel Simone Bernard 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 This research paper seeks to interrogate Peter Tosh's cultural legacy and intends to add to limited scholarship on this artist, his words, songs, and musical contributions. The central research method…
