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Propaganda and Infrastructure of Brand Jamaica

Dorraine Duncan and Jhordan Channer

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Karl Parboosingh, Cement Company, 1966. Source: A.D. Scott Collection, National Gallery of Jamaica.

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November 2024










Notes
1

Brian Larkin, “Promising Forms: The Political Aesthetics of Infrastructure,” in The Promise of Infrastructure, eds. Nikhil Anand, Hannah Appel, Akhil Gupta (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013).

2

Rivke Jaffe and Lucy Evans, “Imagining Infrastructure in Urban Jamaica,” GeoHumanities 8, no. 1 (2021): 17-32).

3

John Walton, Internal Colonialism: Problems of Definition and Measurement (Center for Urban Affairs, Northwestern University, 1974).

4

Malcolm Cross, Urbanization and Urban Growth in the Caribbean (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1979).

5

“Jamaica In The 1930's | Jamaica In The 1930s | Jamaica, 1930s | West Indies | Caribbean,” n.d., video, 9:01, .

6

Zannah Matson, “Review of The Promise of Infrastructure,” review of The Promise of Infrastructure, edited by Nikhil Anand, Hannah Appel, Akhil Gupta, Society and Space, June 7, 2021, .

7

Matson, “Review of The Promise of Infrastructure.”

8

At the opening ceremony, Macdonald carried the Jamaican flag, causing protests within the team and leading other athletes to boycott the opening, insisting that an athlete (presumably a black one) should carry the flag instead. Leroy Brown, “Sir Herbert, father of the National Stadium,” The Gleaner, March 7, 2015, .

9

Brown, “Sir Herbert, father of the National Stadium.”

10

“Jamaica Independence, 1962,” National Library of Jamaica, .

11

Glendon L. Logan, “Ministry Paper No. 15: National Stadium,” March 20, 1962, .

12

Anand, Appel, Gupta, eds., The Promise of Infrastructure.

13

Jamaica Information Service (JIS), “Tivoli Gardens Documentary - Hard Road To Travel - Public Housing in Jamaica,” 1960s, video, 39:52, .

14

Deborah A. Thomas, Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019).

15

Jamaica Information Service, “Tivoli Gardens Documentary.”

16

Thomas, Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation.

17

Edward Seaga, “The Tivoli Gardens community-development model,” The Gleaner, June 13, 2010, .

18

Jamaica Information Service, “Tivoli Gardens Documentary.”

19

See .

20

See .

21

Anand, Gupta, Appel, eds., The Promise of Infrastructure.