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Criminal Repair and Postcolonial Sovereignty in the Jamaican Lotto Scam, Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis
Structural adjustment continues to plague Jamaica with systemic and deepening poverty. I discuss how a group of young Black Jamaicans participated in what is known as the Jamaican lotto scam—an intricate scheme that targeted primarily elderly, White North Americans—to successfully mitigate these conditions. I examine the scam’s complex manipulation of Jamaican ICT through which scammers refashioned themselves and their country’s relationship to North America. I illustrate how scammers produce novel logics of capital, criminality, and Blackness to develop a radical formulary for postcolonial Black repair and postcolonial sovereignty.
Date:
18 February 2022, 15:00
Venue:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUoc-mtrDIiG9U1A3YGijSTjnnxFzfjvA8Y
Speakers:
Patricia Daley,
Dr. Jovan Schott Lewis (University of California, Berkeley)
Organising department:
School of Geography and the Environment
Organiser:
Dr Amber Murrey (SoGE)
Organiser contact email address:
amber.murrey-ndewa@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Political Worlds Webinar Series: Power and Political Lives in Geography
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUoc-mtrDIiG9U1A3YGijSTjnnxFzfjvA8Y
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Amber Murrey
