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Springer eBooks, 2020
This chapter explores Jamaica’s forays into economic policy independence and the initiatives used... more This chapter explores Jamaica’s forays into economic policy independence and the initiatives used to strengthen these efforts in the 1990s. Jamaica deepened deregulation and liberalization with deleterious effects due to policy and past failures, resulting in an enormous debt that haunted the country into the next millennium. These deleterious effects were heavily influenced by PNP policy reversals of the 1970s in the pursuit of social justice and equity that had generated devastating economic results. Policy independence was achieved, but the nation struggled with the management of economic policy and structural reforms that were supposed to boost development and the production of more competitive goods and services.
Springer eBooks, 2020
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
Springer eBooks, 2020
This chapter contextualizes salient historical discourses juxtaposed against the structural and p... more This chapter contextualizes salient historical discourses juxtaposed against the structural and political economic dimensions of the Jamaican colonial economy. These key elements shape interpretation and networks of social relations, contesting power and influencing the discourse and practice of the state, government and governance relations with society. Jamaica is emerging from the nexus of competing interests and political economy concerns emanating between the colonized and the colonizer with forms and expressions of power.
Springer eBooks, 2020
This chapter interrogates some key themes and issues of the IMF as an actor network: its characte... more This chapter interrogates some key themes and issues of the IMF as an actor network: its characteristics, emergence, discourse and practice. The IMF emerges as a macro social actor, considering factors such as the role of ideas that informed the network construction, ideological bases and issues concerning its operations, and relationships within the global community. Several critiques arise at that interface, emphasizing the influences contributing to semiotic reflection upon the outworking of the discourse and practice of the IMF itself, as well as its interaction as a macro social actor network within the global network of relations and space of flows.
Proceedings of The 9th international conference on Management , Economics and Humanities, 2019
Macroeconomic challenges precipitated the emergence of the Public Sector Memorandum of Understand... more Macroeconomic challenges precipitated the emergence of the Public Sector Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) social partnership agreement between the Government of Jamaica and the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU). In the context of this governance response to crisis, this paper examines the emergence of Cost Savings Committees (CSCs) as supportive institutional expressions of subsidiarity and innovative governance, to further the MOU strategy of Expenditure Restraint within the public sector. CSCs became a network (node) within the MOU network, pursuing the dismantling and overturning of entrenched, traditional discourses and practices of financial management in the public sector, that had resulted in a culture of abuse and the inefficient management of Government assets and resources. The CSCs' struggles are portrayed in the network connectivity, revealed through the lens of Actor Network Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) methodology using text and discourse as units of analysis. Tensions of power and governance are revealed between CSCs and other public sector actor networks in the MOU network of relations, as dimensions of MOU discourse are inculcated concerning financial management, with mixed results.
International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation, 2016
In 2004, the Government of Jamaica and the Confederation of Trade Unions signed a social partners... more In 2004, the Government of Jamaica and the Confederation of Trade Unions signed a social partnership agreement or Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which maintained the size of the public sector and wage expenditure, in exchange for no redundancies. The implementation of the Agreement unearthed unanticipated implications for the practice of power within the partnership. The ontology of Actor Network Theory, conceptualizes the MoU as an actor which, through the mechanics of translation, creates its own actor network that it seeks to inscribe with its own discourse to attain a ‘black box' status. The inclusion of discourse as a moment and use of Critical Discourse Analysis provides for the penetration of the impenetrable black box of network interaction and analytical possibilities. The paper argues for the recognition of discourse as a moment in ANT which strengthens it and affords a mode of analysis to deconstruct or explore inner distributions of power.
Contextualizing Jamaica’s Relationship with the IMF, 2020
Contextualizing Jamaica’s Relationship with the IMF, 2020
Jamaica’s Evolving Relationship with the IMF, 2021
Springer eBooks, 2020
This chapter explores Jamaica’s forays into economic policy independence and the initiatives used... more This chapter explores Jamaica’s forays into economic policy independence and the initiatives used to strengthen these efforts in the 1990s. Jamaica deepened deregulation and liberalization with deleterious effects due to policy and past failures, resulting in an enormous debt that haunted the country into the next millennium. These deleterious effects were heavily influenced by PNP policy reversals of the 1970s in the pursuit of social justice and equity that had generated devastating economic results. Policy independence was achieved, but the nation struggled with the management of economic policy and structural reforms that were supposed to boost development and the production of more competitive goods and services.
Springer eBooks, 2020
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
Springer eBooks, 2020
This chapter contextualizes salient historical discourses juxtaposed against the structural and p... more This chapter contextualizes salient historical discourses juxtaposed against the structural and political economic dimensions of the Jamaican colonial economy. These key elements shape interpretation and networks of social relations, contesting power and influencing the discourse and practice of the state, government and governance relations with society. Jamaica is emerging from the nexus of competing interests and political economy concerns emanating between the colonized and the colonizer with forms and expressions of power.
Springer eBooks, 2020
This chapter interrogates some key themes and issues of the IMF as an actor network: its characte... more This chapter interrogates some key themes and issues of the IMF as an actor network: its characteristics, emergence, discourse and practice. The IMF emerges as a macro social actor, considering factors such as the role of ideas that informed the network construction, ideological bases and issues concerning its operations, and relationships within the global community. Several critiques arise at that interface, emphasizing the influences contributing to semiotic reflection upon the outworking of the discourse and practice of the IMF itself, as well as its interaction as a macro social actor network within the global network of relations and space of flows.
Proceedings of The 9th international conference on Management , Economics and Humanities, 2019
Macroeconomic challenges precipitated the emergence of the Public Sector Memorandum of Understand... more Macroeconomic challenges precipitated the emergence of the Public Sector Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) social partnership agreement between the Government of Jamaica and the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU). In the context of this governance response to crisis, this paper examines the emergence of Cost Savings Committees (CSCs) as supportive institutional expressions of subsidiarity and innovative governance, to further the MOU strategy of Expenditure Restraint within the public sector. CSCs became a network (node) within the MOU network, pursuing the dismantling and overturning of entrenched, traditional discourses and practices of financial management in the public sector, that had resulted in a culture of abuse and the inefficient management of Government assets and resources. The CSCs' struggles are portrayed in the network connectivity, revealed through the lens of Actor Network Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) methodology using text and discourse as units of analysis. Tensions of power and governance are revealed between CSCs and other public sector actor networks in the MOU network of relations, as dimensions of MOU discourse are inculcated concerning financial management, with mixed results.
International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation, 2016
In 2004, the Government of Jamaica and the Confederation of Trade Unions signed a social partners... more In 2004, the Government of Jamaica and the Confederation of Trade Unions signed a social partnership agreement or Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which maintained the size of the public sector and wage expenditure, in exchange for no redundancies. The implementation of the Agreement unearthed unanticipated implications for the practice of power within the partnership. The ontology of Actor Network Theory, conceptualizes the MoU as an actor which, through the mechanics of translation, creates its own actor network that it seeks to inscribe with its own discourse to attain a ‘black box' status. The inclusion of discourse as a moment and use of Critical Discourse Analysis provides for the penetration of the impenetrable black box of network interaction and analytical possibilities. The paper argues for the recognition of discourse as a moment in ANT which strengthens it and affords a mode of analysis to deconstruct or explore inner distributions of power.
Contextualizing Jamaica’s Relationship with the IMF, 2020
Contextualizing Jamaica’s Relationship with the IMF, 2020
Jamaica’s Evolving Relationship with the IMF, 2021