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Hume Nicola Johnson
Hume Nicola Johnson is Lecturer in Journalism and Communication at James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. Her current research focuses on citizenship and governance, popular citizen participation, social movements and civil society, with a particular focus on Jamaica. Other significant interests include media studies, political communication, elections and political parties. Hume has published on the politics of incivility among the marginalised in Jamaica (Political Studies, Vol. 53 (3), 2005) and is the co-author of ‘Jamaican Dons, Italian Mafias and the chances of a reversible destiny’ (Political Studies, Vol. 56 March 2008). She has also written on the resistance rituals among women vendors in the Jamaican informal economy in On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions, (New York: Routledge, 2011).