Besson, Jean. 2021. Free Villages. In: Diana Paton and Matthew J. Smith, eds. The Jamaica Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, pp. 163-167. ISBN 9781478011514 [Book Section]

Besson, Jean. 2018. Sidney W Mintz’s ‘peasantry’ as a critique of capitalism: New evidence from Jamaica. Critique of Anthropology, 38(4), pp. 443-460. ISSN 0308-275X [Article]

Besson, Jean. 2018. Review of Almost Home. Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone by Ruma Chopra. International Review of Social History, 63(3), pp. 526-529. ISSN 0020-8590 [Article]

Besson, Jean. 2018. Review of In the forests of freedom: the fighting Maroons of Dominica by Lennox Honychurch. Slavery & Abolition, 39(2), pp. 442-444. ISSN 0144-039X [Article]

Besson, Jean. 2016. 'Transformations of freedom in the land of the Maroons: creolization in the Cockpits, Jamaica'. In: 40th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies. University of Newcastle 6-8 July 2016 and to UCL institute of the Americas, 12 October 2016. [Conference or Workshop Item]

Besson, Jean. 2016. Review of Ties that bind: the black family in post-slavery Jamaica, 1834-1882 by Jenny M. Jemmott. New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 90(3-4), pp. 334-335. ISSN 1382-2373 [Article]

Besson, Jean. 2016. Transformations of Freedom in the Land of the Maroons: Creolization in the Cockpits, Jamaica. Kingston and Miami: Ian Randle Publishers. ISBN 978-9766374082 [Book]

Besson, Jean. 2015. 'Jamaican hidden histories in Caribbean context: maroons, free villages and ‘squatter’ settlements'. In: Keynote Address. 39th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies. The Drum Intercultural Arts Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom 1-3 July 2015. [Conference or Workshop Item]

Besson, Jean. 2014. Review of Enacting power: the criminalization of obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2011 by Jerome S. Handler and Kenneth M. Bilby. Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, 35(2), pp. 384-386. ISSN 0144-039X [Article]

Besson, Jean. 2013. 'Transformations of freedom in the land of the Maroons: creolization in the Cockpits, Jamaica'. In: Caribbean Research Seminar in the North. University of Newcastle, United Kingdom 10 May 2013 and to the Jamaican Historical Society, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, 11 December 2012. [Conference or Workshop Item]

Besson, Jean. 2012. '"Jamaica 50": the role of peasantization in the development of a Caribbean nation-state'. In: Graduate Seminar, Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Department of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom April 2012. [Conference or Workshop Item]

Besson, Jean. 2012. 'Maroons, free villagers and "squatters" in the development of Independent Jamaica'. In: conference Fifty Years of Jamaican Independence: Developments and Impacts. Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, School of Advanced Study, United Kingdom 10 February 2012. [Conference or Workshop Item]

Besson, Jean. 2012. Review of Cultural DNA: gender at the root of everyday life in rural Jamaica by Diana. J. Fox. New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 86(3-4), pp. 381-384. ISSN 1382-2373 [Article]

Besson, Jean. 2011. M. G. Smith’s plural society theory and the challenge of Caribbean creolization. In: Brian Meeks, ed. Caribbean Reasonings: M. G. Smith: Social theory and anthropology in the Caribbean and beyond. Kingston and Miami: Ian Randle Publishers, pp. 22-42. ISBN 978-976-637-533-1 [Book Section]

Besson, Jean. 2011. Missionaries, planters, and slaves in the age of abolition. In: Stephan Palmié and Francisco A Scarano, eds. The Caribbean: A history of the region and its peoples. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, pp. 317-329. ISBN 9780226645087 [Book Section]

Besson, Jean. 2010. 'Southampton arrival: the making of a Meso-Creole, a Caribbeanist and Caribbean Studies in the U.K.'. In: Keynote Address. 34th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies. University of Southampton, United Kingdom 7 July 2010. [Conference or Workshop Item]

Besson, Jean. 2010. Review of Down town ladies: informal commercial importers, a Haitian anthropologist, and self-making in Jamaica by Gina A. Ulysse. New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 84(3-4), pp. 315-318. ISSN 1382-2373 [Article]

Besson, Jean. 2009. Myal, Revival and Rastafari in the making of western Jamaica: dialogues with Chevannes. In: Horace Levy, ed. The African-Caribbean world view and the making of Caribbean society. Kingston: University of West Indies Press, pp. 26-45. ISBN 978-9766402105 [Book Section]

Besson, Jean. 2009. Review of Jamaica in 1850 or, the effects of sixteen years of freedom on a slave colony by John Bigelow. New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 83(1-2), pp. 140-142. ISSN 1382-2373 [Article]

Besson, Jean. 2008. 'The sacred and the secular in Caribbean creolization: land, kinship, gender and religion'. In: Keynote Address. International Conference on The sacred and the secular. School of Humanities, University of Southampton, United Kingdom September 2008. [Conference or Workshop Item]

Besson, Jean. 2008. 'M. G. Smith’s plural society theory and the challenge of Caribbean creolization'. In: Keynote Address. International Conference in honour of the late Professor M. G. Smith (O.M. Jamaica). University of the West Indies/University of California, Centre for Caribbean Thought, U.W.I., Kingston, Jamaica June 2008. [Conference or Workshop Item]

Besson, Jean. 2008. Review of The language of dress: resistance and accommodation in Jamaica, 1760-1890 by Steeve O. Buckridge. New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 80(3-4), pp. 265-267. ISSN 1382-2373 [Article]

Besson, Jean. 2007. Review of Negotiating Caribbean freedom: peasants and the state in development by Michaeline A. Crichlow. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 36(4), pp. 360-361. ISSN 0094-3061 [Article]

Besson, Jean and Momsen, Janet, eds. 2007. Caribbean Land and Development Revisited. New York: Palgrave. ISBN 140397392X [Edited Book]

Besson, Jean and Momsen, Janet. 2007. Introduction. In: Jean Besson and Janet Momsen, eds. Caribbean land and development revisited. New York: Palgrave, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9780230261242 [Book Section]

Besson, Jean. 2007. ‘Squatting’ as a strategy for land settlement and sustainable development. In: Jean Besson and Janet Momsen, eds. Caribbean land and development revisited. New York: Palgrave, pp. 135-146. ISBN 9780230261242 [Book Section]

Alleyne, Brian. 2006. Cultural Politics and Caribbean Narratives. In: Jean Besson and Karen Fog Olwig, eds. Caribbean Narratives of Belonging: Fields of Relations, Sites of Identity. Macmillan Caribbean, pp. 263-279. ISBN 1-4050-1879-8 [Book Section]

Besson, Jean and Olwig, Karen Fog, eds. 2005. Caribbean Narratives of Belonging: Fields of Relations, Sites of Identity. Oxford: Macmillan. ISBN 1405018798 [Edited Book]

Olwig, Karen Fog and Besson, Jean. 2005. Introduction: Caribbean narratives of belonging. In: Jean Besson and Karen Fog Olwig, eds. Caribbean narratives of belonging: fields of relations, sites of identity. Oxford: Macmillan, pp. 1-14. ISBN 1-4050-1879-8 [Book Section]

Besson, Jean. 2005. Sacred sites, shifting histories: narratives of belonging, land and globalization in the Cockpit Country, Jamaica. In: Jean Besson and Karen Fog Olwig, eds. Caribbean narratives of belonging: fields of relations, sites of identity. Oxford: Macmillan, pp. 17-43. ISBN 1-4050-1879-8 [Book Section]

Besson, Jean. 2004. L’héritage de l’esclavage: La mémoire du sol en Jamaïque occidentale. Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales, 59(3), pp. 569-587. ISSN 0395-2649 [Article]

Besson, Jean. 2004. Periodization or Process? An Anthropological View of History. Journal of Victorian Culture, 9(2), pp. 244-250. ISSN 1355-5502 [Article]

Besson, Jean. 2004. Review of Jamaica in slavery and freedom: history, heritage and culture by Kathleen E. A. Monteith and Glen Richards, eds. New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 78(3-4), pp. 315-317. ISSN 1382-2373 [Article]

Besson, Jean. 2003. Gender and development in the Jamaican small-scale marketing system. In: David Barker and Duncan McGregor, eds. Resources, planning and environmental management in a changing Caribbean. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, pp. 11-35. ISBN 978-9766401344 [Book Section]

Besson, Jean. 2003. '‘History, culture and land in the English-speaking Caribbean’'. In: International Conference on Land policy, administration and management in the English-Speaking Caribbean, sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture, Land & Marine Resources, Trinidad and Tobago and organised by the Land Tenure Center, University of Wiscons. Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. [Conference or Workshop Item]

Besson, Jean. 2003. Euro-Creole, Afro-Creole, Meso-Creole: creolization and ethnic identity in west-central Jamaica. In: Gordon Collier and Ulrich Fleischmann, eds. A Pepper-Pot of Cultures: Aspects of Creolization in the Caribbean. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, pp. 169-188. ISBN 90-420-0928-4 [Book Section]

Besson, Jean. 2003. History, culture and land in the English-speaking Caribbean. In: Allan N. Williams, ed. Proceedings of the conference on Land in the Caribbean: land policy, administration and management in the English-speaking Caribbean. Madison USA: Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, pp. 31-60. [Book Section]

Besson, Jean. 2002. Land, territory and identity in the deterritorialized, transnational Caribbean. In: Michael Saltman, ed. Land and Territoriality. Oxford: Berg Publishers, pp. 175-208. ISBN 1-85973-564-9 [Book Section]

Besson, Jean. 2002. Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture-Building in Jamaica. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807827347 [Book]

Besson, Jean. 2001. Empowering and engendering hidden histories in Caribbean peasant communities. In: Thomas Bremer and Ulrich Fleischmann, eds. History and Histories in the Caribbean. Madrid: Iberoamericana and Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, pp. 69-113. ISBN 84-95107-25-2 and 3-89354-570-0 [Book Section]

Besson, Jean. 2000. 'Reflections on Caribbean Studies in the Year 2000'. In: Keynote Address. 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies. University of Birmingham, United Kingdom 4-5 July 2000. [Conference or Workshop Item]

Besson, Jean. 2000. The appropriation of lands of law by lands of myth in the Caribbean region. In: Allen Abramson and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos, eds. Land, law and environment. London: Pluto Press, pp. 116-135. ISBN 9780745315751 [Book Section]