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 (Friday, 5th week, Hilary 2022)
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