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- Title
Representations of Jamaica Ahead of its Diamond Jubilee in Four 'Town' Murals.
- Authors
COOKE, MELVILLE
- Abstract
This paper takes a Cultural Studies approach to thematic analysis of four public murals in Kingston and urban St. Andrew, Jamaica, which comprise a case study. The Vision 2030 mural in Southside, Kingston, is an independent interpretation of Vision 2030, the government's plan for Jamaica's optimal development by the target year. Two Liv Gud! murals, one outside Southside and another near Swallowfield in urban St. Andrew, were commissioned by the Jamaican government as part of a violence reduction campaign. The fourth, on the Gleaner Company media house's Kingston office, collates prominent elements of Jamaican life. Each mural was observed in its physical context, photographed from several angles, and analysed thematically, utilising Representation (Cultural Studies) and Social Representation Theory (Social Psychology) theories, for its depiction of race, gender and national identity, before comparative analysis of the individual outcomes. The paper finds that there is an imbalance in the murals' racial and gender composition, contributing to a limited depiction of Jamaican identity ahead of its 60th anniversary of Independence on August 6, 2022.
- Subjects
JAMAICA; KINGSTON (Jamaica); MURAL art; DEMOGRAPHIC characteristics; STATE-sponsored terrorism; SOCIAL psychology; RACE; GENDER identity; PUBLIC spaces
- Publication
Journal of Arts Science & Technology, 2023, Vol 15, Issue 3, p183
- ISSN
0799-1681
- Publication type
Article