Courses… Handbook 2018/2019 31 Aug 2018 View the Institute of Cultural Studies (ICS) Handbook for a full list of Courses and Programmes offered by the Department. ICS Handbook 2018/2019
Courses… Course Descriptions (2018/19) 31 Aug 2018 Semester I (2018/19) - Course Descriptions Level I Courses & Descriptions Level II Courses & Descriptions Level III Courses & Descriptions
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 ‘Cultural Institution’ to ‘Cultural Industry’? A Comparative Analysis of the Television Industry in Jamaica and Ghana 1997 – 2009 by Deborah Anne Hickling 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 In this thesis, changing meanings and practices in television broadcasting and production in Jamaica and Ghana are used to examine transitions in structures, processes and policies associated with the adoption…
Abstracts… Violence in Vybz Kartel’s Music: Metaphor, Musical Identity, Performance or Masculinity? by Kimberly Carr-Tobias 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 This paper’s objective is to contribute to the field of Cultural Studies, more specifically, Caribbean Cultural Studies. This study addresses the concern about the culture of violence in Jamaican dancehall…
Abstracts… Museums, Slavery, and the Caribbean Exhibitionary Complex: Towards a Museology of Displacement by Wayne Modest 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 This dissertation offers a reading in postcolonial museology or what I have called a museology of displacement. Taking the Caribbean museum and other exhibitionary institutions as the object of study,…
