AHRC Research Network Dons, Yardies and Posses: Representations of Jamaican Organised Crime: Workshop 1, Thursday 15 th and Friday 16 th June 2017

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1 British Academy Research Network Crime and its Representation in the Anglophone Caribbean, : Workshop 2, Wednesday 14 th and Thursday 15 th June 2017 AHRC Research Network Dons, Yardies and Posses: Representations of Jamaican Organised Crime: Workshop 1, Thursday 15 th and Friday 16 th June 2017 Venue: Ransom Meeting Room, UWI Regional Headquarters, Mona Rd, Kingston, Jamaica Workshop Programme Day 1: Wednesday 14 th June 9.30 Registration (BA project) 9.45 Welcome (BA project) Colonial and postcolonial criminal justice systems Refreshment break Crime, violence and gender Lunch Writing crime and violence Refreshment break Discussion of possible longer-term collaborative teaching initiatives 7.30 Evening meal at the Redbones Blues Cafe Day 2: Thursday 15 th June 9.15 Registration (AHRC project) 9.30 Welcome (AHRC project) 1

2 Organised crime in film, popular music and the media Tea and coffee break Policing organised crime Lunch Policy Approaches to Organised Crime (roundtable discussion) Tea and coffee break Reading Marlon James s A History of Seven Killings Visualising criminal spaces and bodies (artists discussion panel) 7.30 Evening meal at the Grogshoppe Restaurant Day 3: Friday 16 th June Crime, resilience and myth (interactive session) Tea and coffee break Representing dons Lunch Making Four Days in May: Deborah Thomas in Dialogue with Varun Baker and Junior Gabu Wedderburn Tea and coffee break Singing security (interactive session) Concluding discussion reflecting on the progress of the project, and future directions for the research 7.30 Evening meal at the Tamarind Indian Restaurant Details of panels and interactive sessions 2

3 Day 1: Wednesday 14 th June 10.00: Colonial and postcolonial criminal justice systems Tracy Robinson (UWI, Mona), Saving law: Crime, constitutions and decolonisation in the Anglophone Caribbean Paula Morgan (UWI, St Augustine), Danielle Watson (University of the South Pacific, Fiji) and Francis D. Boateng (University of Mississippi), The Interface between Exercise of State Power and Personal Powerlessness: A study of police perceptions of factors impacting procedural legitimacy Clare Anderson (University of Leicester), A Visit --to Mazaruni Prison, Guyana: an historian reflects on contemporary incarceration Dylan Kerrigan, Justice out of a State of Injustice: Bias, Trust and Fairness in the Judiciary of Trinidad & Tobago Chair: Mellissa Ifill 12.20: Crime, violence and gender Mellissa Ifill (University of Guyana), Crime and Violence in Guyana: A Gendered Analysis Corin Bailey (UWI, Cave Hill), Perceptions of familial responsibility as a practical constraint in judicial decision-making: Focal concerns and gender bias in sentencing on the island of Barbados Chair: Clare Anderson (University of Leicester) 2.30: Writing crime and violence Curtis Wallace (UWI, Mona), Diverse Representations of Crime: Published Police Memoirs and Reminiscences in the British Colonial Caribbean Paula Morgan (UWI, St Augustine), Killing don t need no reason : Trauma and Criminality in A Brief History of Seven Killings Kim Robinson-Walcott (UWI, Mona), Writing Violence: John Hearne s Voices under the Window and Brian Meeks Paint the Town Red 3

4 Chair: Lucy Evans (University of Leicester) 4.30: Discussion of possible longer-term collaborative teaching initiatives Interactive session run by Lucy Evans (University of Leicester) and Martin Halliwell (University of Leicester) Day 2: Thursday 15 th June 10.40: Organised crime in film, popular music and the media Suzette Haughton (UWI, Mona), Representations of drug trafficking and lottery scamming in Jamaican press coverage Sonjah N. Stanley Niaah (UWI, Mona), Brand Jamaica: Mapping Crime, Notoriety and Consumption Emiel Martens (University of Amsterdam), From The Harder They Come to Kingston Paradise: The Representation of Jamaican (Organised) Crime in Jamaican Feature Films Renee Figuera (UWI, St Augustine) and Wendell Wallace (UWI, St Augustine), Discourse Globalisation and Translocalisation of Gangspeak with Evidence from Trinidad Chair: Sharae Deckard 12.00: Policing organised crime Anthony Harriott (UWI, Mona), Organised Crime, State and Community: The Problem of Protective Silence Ben Bowling (King s College London), Policing the Caribbean Chair: David Howard 2.10: Policy approaches to organised crime (roundtable discussion) Horace Levy (Peace Management Initiative) 4

5 Angella Harris (Citizen Security and Justice Programme) David Osborne (Country Representative, UK-AID / UK Department for International Development, British High Commission, Jamaica) Miguel Steppa Williams (Civil Society Coordinator for the USAID Community Empowerment and Transformation Project) Chair: Rivke Jaffe (University of Amsterdam) 3.40: Reading Marlon James s A Brief History of Seven Killings Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin), Gender, Narcoliterature, and Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings Carter Mathes (Rutgers University), Abstraction in Dub: Narrative Dis(Orientation) and Geopolitical Violence in A Brief History of Seven Killings Lucy Evans (University of Leicester), The yardie figure in Marlon James s A Brief History of Seven Killings Chair: Rivke Jaffe 5.30 Visualising criminal spaces and bodies Artists discussion panel featuring Petrona Morrison, Michael Flyn Elliott, Dwight Larmond and Cleaver Cunningham. Chaired by Petrina Dacres (Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts). Day 3: Friday 16 th June 9.30: Crime, Resilience and Myth 5

6 Interactive session led by David Howard (University of Oxford), Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin) and Dylan Kerrigan (UWI, St Augustine) 11.00: Representing Dons Rivke Jaffe (University of Amsterdam), Writing around Violence: Representing Organized Crime in Kingston, Jamaica Tracian Meikle (University of Amsterdam), Iconization of Donmanship in Visual Culture in Kingston, Jamaica Petrina Dacres (Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts), Public Art and the Politics of Death Chair: Deborah Thomas 1.30: Making Four Days in May: Deborah Thomas in Dialogue with Varun Baker and Junior Gabu Wedderburn Deborah Thomas (University of Pennsylvania), Varun Baker and Junior Gabu Wedderburn will discuss the process of creating a series of visual representations of the 2010 State of Emergency in Kingston. 3.30: Singing Security Interactive session led by Rivke Jaffe (University of Amsterdam) 4.30: Concluding discussion reflecting on the progress of the project, and future directions for the research Interactive session led by Lucy Evans (University of Leicester) 6