Rule of Dons by Rivke Jaffe
Centre for Urban Studies Book Launch
On Friday June 27, the Centre for Urban Studies will organise a book launch for The Rule of Dons (Duke University Press, 2024), the latest monograph by Rivke Jaffe, professor of Urban Geography at the University of Amsterdam.
Event details of
Rule of Dons by Rivke Jaffe
- Date
- 27 June 2025
- Time
- 15:00 -16:00
- Room
- C2.03
The book explores the aesthetic, affective, and spatial mechanisms through which dons, criminal leaders in Kingston, Jamaica, have attained a large degree of political legitimacy. Her analysis not only sheds light on this specific type of political authority, but also speaks to the entanglement of violent autocratic rule and democratic institutions far beyond Jamaica.
Programme
After an introduction by Rivke, Marlies Glasius, professor of International Relations at the University of Amsterdam and author of Authoritarian Practices in a Global Age (Oxford University Press, 2023), will reflect on the book’s insights.
