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This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of the Tivoli Incursion. Over 200 Jamaicans lost their lives. Tivoli Gardens is my field site. There I learned difficult lessons about the afterlife of enslavement, underdevelopment, & state-sanctioned violence. #TivoliIncursion
My field work was centered on members of Pentecostal/Holiness church in Tivoli Gardens who suffered through the Incursion. I'm still working through all I saw and experienced. My book project centers their experiences.
Here are some projects that help us remember and mourn what happened in May 2010-- Four Days in West Kingston - an experimental film #TivoliIncursion
Tivoli Stories- a multimedia installation, book, and film project. https://www.tivolistories.com
Also check out Deborah Thomas, Political Life in the Wake of Plantation which traces the long-term legacies of the plantation system & how its logics continue to shape and replicate forms of violence in Jamaica. #TivoliIncursion https://www.dukeupress.edu/political-life-in-the-wake-of-the-plantation
The community organization, Faces of Tivoli Gardens will be hosting an online forum today, starting at 3:30 EST https://www.instagram.com/facesoftivoligardens/ #TivoliIncursion
It's striking to see the names of the 1000 Americans who died of COVID-19 & remember the lives lost in the #TivoliIncursion. In both instances the state failed. This is a weekend of mourning. And a step in the "wake work" Christina Sharpe demands.
