Dons, yardies and posses: representations of Jamaican organised crime

该项目以牙买加有组织犯罪的表现为重点，旨在将艺术和人文方法与社会科学和以政策为导向的跨国犯罪组织观点联系起来。全球化促进了资本、货物和人员的加速流动，使犯罪组织得以扩展和发展为跨国网络。扎根于政治暴力和选举地盘争夺战的牙买加帮派在20世纪80年代国际非法毒品贸易的增长中发挥了核心作用。牙买加有组织犯罪仍然是牙买加政府迫切关注的问题，也对美国和英国构成了重大的安全威胁，这两个国家是可卡因的主要消费市场，也是牙买加帮派跨国活动的关键地点。为了有效地解决这个问题，有必要对牙买加有组织犯罪有更深入的了解。这一领域现有的学术争论一直局限在社会科学领域。尽管牙买加帮派自1980年代以来通过媒体、电影、音乐和通俗小说获得了全球恶名，而且也越来越多地出现在文学小说和犯罪自传中，但没有持续关注代表性问题。因此，有必要调查加勒比、欧洲和北美的文化和媒体叙述与社会科学和政策观点之间的复杂关系。这一网络将通过探索牙买加有组织犯罪之间的多方向关系来推动对牙买加有组织犯罪的研究。)关于牙买加有组织犯罪的文学、视觉、电影、流行音乐和媒体表现；b)关于牙买加有组织犯罪的社会科学研究；c)旨在打击牙买加有组织犯罪的政策。它将有助于AHRC突出通知对跨理事会调查创新领域的重视，将艺术、人文和社会科学研究人员聚集在一起，共同解决以下关键问题：-文学和视觉文本、电影、流行音乐和媒体报道如何框架牙买加有组织犯罪的原因、后果和控制？-牙买加犯罪团伙的文化和媒体代表如何参与、普及、竞争和使社会科学和政策观点复杂化？-牙买加、欧洲和北美对牙买加有组织犯罪和相关政策的社会科学分析如何反映这些不同类型的代表的影响？除了跨越学科界限，该网络还将发起学者、作家、艺术家、电影制作人、创意行业专业人士以及公共和志愿部门代表之间的跨部门对话。通过这样做，它将对与学者、政策制定者和实践者相关的牙买加有组织犯罪的陈述产生新的视角。它还将通过关注文化和媒体叙事、学术理论和政策的全球传播，以及通过关注牙买加、美国和英国的主要城市遗址之间的联系，如金斯敦市中心、布鲁克林、布里克斯顿和汉兹沃斯，跨越国界。网络活动将包括在莱斯特、阿姆斯特丹和金斯敦举行的三个为期两天的讲习班，重点关注以下主题：‘帮派文化’；帮派和治理；城市空间和跨国联系；每个讲习班将包括一个与讲习班主题相关的面向公众的活动，有作家、电影制作人和艺术家参加。该网络的发现还将通过同行评议的出版物、莱斯特大学主办的项目网页、在线展览、博客和社交媒体平台进行交流。

Focusing on representations of Jamaican organised crime, this project aims to connect arts and humanities approaches with social science and policy-oriented perspectives on transnational criminal organisations. The accelerated flows of capital, goods and people facilitated by globalisation have allowed criminal organisations to expand and develop into transnational networks. Rooted in political violence and electoral turf wars, Jamaican gangs played a central role in the growth of the international illegal drug trade in the 1980s. Jamaican organised crime remains a pressing concern of the Jamaican government, and also presents a significant security threat to the US and the UK, which are major consumer markets for cocaine and key locations in the transnational movement of Jamaican gangs.A deeper understanding of Jamaican organised crime is necessary in order for the problem to be effectively addressed. Existing academic debate in this area has been contained within the social sciences. There has been no sustained focus on the question of representation, despite the fact that Jamaican gangs have since the 1980s acquired global notoriety through the media, film, music and popular fiction, and also increasingly feature in literary fiction and criminal autobiography. There is therefore a need for enquiry into the complex relationship of cultural and media narratives to social science and policy perspectives on Jamaican organised crime in the Caribbean, Europe and North America.This network will advance research on Jamaican organised crime by exploring the multidirectional relationships between a.) literary, visual, cinematic, popular music and media representations of Jamaican organised crime; b) social science research on Jamaican organised crime; and c.) policies aimed at combating Jamaican organised crime. It will contribute to the AHRC highlight notice's emphasis on innovative areas of cross-council enquiry by bringing together arts, humanities and social science researchers to collaboratively address the following key questions:- How do literary and visual texts, films, popular music and media reports frame the causes, consequences and control of Jamaican organised crime? - How do cultural and media representations of Jamaican criminal gangs engage with, popularise, contest and complicate social science and policy perspectives?- How do social science analyses of Jamaican organised crime and related policies in Jamaica, Europe and North America reflect the influence of these various kinds of representations? As well as crossing disciplinary boundaries, the network will initiate cross-sector conversations between academics, writers, artists, a filmmaker, creative industry professionals, and public and voluntary sector representatives. In doing so it will generate new perspectives on representations of Jamaican organised crime relevant for academics, policy-makers and practitioners. It will also cross national boundaries through its concern with the global circulation of cultural and media narratives, academic theories and policies, and through its focus on connections between key urban sites in Jamaica, the US and the UK, such as downtown Kingston, Brooklyn, Brixton and Handsworth. An international range of participants is a necessary basis for the network's investigation of the transnational dimensions of Jamaican criminal gangs and their representation.Networking activities will consist of three two-day workshops in Leicester, Amsterdam and Kingston focusing on the following themes: 'gangsta culture'; gangs and governance;urban spaces and transnational connections; Each workshop will incorporate a public-facing event relevant to the workshop theme involving writers, a filmmaker and artists. The network's findings will also be communicated via peer reviewed publications, a project webpage hosted by the University of Leicester, an online exhibition, a blog, and social media platforms.