... the research process. It encourages building project listening skills—knowing when to pause, rest, and work—in order to generate new forms of work and knowledge production. Together, these comprise a few possible creative openings for fostering careful and intentional community- and inquiry-building...

... to consider alternatives and to apply conscience to those choices. Throughout the hydrocarbon age—in Trinidad and beyond—so many people have extracted and burned so much with so little pause or reflection. What if one did pause and consider paths not taken, options once available and perhaps still at hand...

... with dear friends and family members, Cole and Watkins-Hayes paused for tea to discuss the art of speechifying. This conversation in many ways became the catalyst for Speechifying , laying the groundwork for themes explored in the book. The interview is an intimate meditation and reflection on Cole's...

... together. As it attunes, spatial and temporal dimensions come into play; writing skids over surfaces, pauses on a detail, grows capacious or pinched. This chapter offers four very different scenes of precarity as a form that accretes, accrues, and wears out and one that takes place through attachments...