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  • Event Date: 2024-10-18
  • Event Start Time: 1:00 PM
  • Event End Time: 3:00 PM
  • Event Location: LSC Conference Room, Lucy Stone Hall, Rutgers Livingston Campus
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  • Event Type: Speaker Series

 Join us on October 18th (1-3 PM) for a book talk with Dr. Rivke Jaffe. Dr. Jaffe is Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Amsterdam. Connecting geography, anthropology, and cultural studies, her research focuses primarily on the spatialization and materialization of power, difference and inequality within cities. She has conducted extensive research on urban crime and policing in Kingston, Jamaica.

She will be discussing her new book The Rule of Dons: Criminal Leaders and Political Authority in Urban Jamaica.

This book talk is a part of the RAICCS New Books in Caribbean Studies Book Talk Series!