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.

Michaeline A. Crichlow is Associate Professor of Historical Sociology, African American World Studies, and Director at the Caribbean, Diaspora, and Atlantic Studies Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

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