Negotiating Caribbean Freedom examines how development programs in Jamaica lock the state and rural smallholders into a relationship that fulfills the agendas of both constituents. It further shows how development policies end up bureaucratizing agrarian relations.

Chapter 1 Development's Agrarian Culture Chapter 2 A Plantation Political Context: Of Peasants, State and Capital 1838-1938 Chapter 3 Forging Nationals out of Rural Working Peoples Chapter 4 In the Name of the "Small Man": "Heavy Manners" and the Creation of New Subjectivities Chapter 5 Maneuvers of an Embattled State: Neoliberal Privatization and the Reconstitution of New Rural Subjects Chapter 6 Inseparable Autonomies: Of State Spaces and People Spaces Chapter 7 Epilogue: Re-making the State and Citizen: The Specter of Formal Exclusions