Violence, Livity, Freedom

Research Article| March 01 2014 Violence, Livity, Freedom Neil Roberts Neil Roberts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 181–192. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2642863 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Neil Roberts; Violence, Livity, Freedom. Small Axe 1 March 2014; 18 (1 (43)): 181–192. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2642863 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsSmall Axe Search Advanced Search This essay proposes that Deborah Thomas's key contribution in Exceptional Violence is not so much the book's rethinking of violence and citizenship (as Thomas suggests) but rather its innovative examination of Rastafari thought and the implications for the idea of freedom. The essay presents two orders of Rastafari discourse, four distinguishing features of Thomas's framework within the second order, a constructive critique of Thomas's argument, and an account of the significance of Thomas's work in late modernity.