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... institution in the French context allows us to offer some clues to Hall's difficult reception in this intellectual landscape. © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 cultural studies critical institution disciplinary empires Birmingham Center In Figures of Dissent , Terry Eagleton suggests that “anyone...

... and critically engaged work have been operating on the ground for a century, if not longer, in different locations; and the in-between space carved out by cultural studies, under the leadership of Stuart Hall, via the Birmingham Centre and then Open University, to enable critical intellectual work inside...

...Patrick Bryan Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Aiding Imperialism: White Baptists in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica Patrick Bryan atherine Hall’s study is concerned with the imperial mind, with the crucible in which the imperial mind was created (in this case Birmingham), and how...

... , after studying at Oxford University, Hall was the socialist activist who chaired the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and whose critique of consensus politics influenced all the new social movements. From 1968 to 1978, as director of the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University...

... black homes had been attacked and a black community centre had been burnt down. As usual, police discounted the possibility of a racial motive; but the entire community, not just the anguished parents, were convinced that the fire had been started by fascists.” 20 Some three years after...

... of the state during this period. In Policing the Crisis, Stuart Hall and his colleagues at the Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies anatomized the transformation of the state that occurred in the 1970s.30 Drawing on the work of political theorist Nicos Poulantzas, Hall provides a structural analysis...

... both black and European, and because the whole workings of the plantation economy was at the center of his lens, from Paris to Saint-Domingue, bringing the complex relations between and across colonizer and colonized sharply into focus. Toussaint was, after all, a black Jacobin, made...

... mother wanted no part of it. I had accepted the position as an English teacher in Newham because I naïvely thought I could be part of fixing what was so obviously broken. I guess going to the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) at Birmingham University was another step in the same...

... and Sculpture and received a BFA from Cooper Union and an MFA from Hunter College. She has had solo exhibitions at the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, and Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City. She has held residencies at Headlands, Fine Arts Work Center, LES Print Shop, and LMCC Workspace. Her work has been...

... and is a recipient of a 2008–2009 Fulbright scholarship to Mauritius. 230  |  Contributors Rex Dixon is a painter trained in a number of art schools in the United Kingdom. He was visual arts officer at Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, from 1972 to 1977. He taught painting as a full...

.... Her publications have appeared in journals such as Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies , Chicana/Latina Studies , Afro-Hispanic Review , MaComère: The Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars , and Label Me Latina/o . B everley M ullings...

... is a reader in African and Caribbean literatures in the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. He has edited several anthologies of ssmallmall aaxexe Caribbean poetry and prose, and several volumes of critical...

... is a reader in African and Caribbean literatures in the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. He has edited several anthologies of ssmallmall aaxexe Caribbean poetry and prose, and several volumes of critical...

... slavery, / None but ourselves can free our minds.” 4 Her critical thought and practice amplified and developed in the intellectual ferment of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and was shaped by the teaching and writing of its director, Stuart Hall. For the first time she found a voice...

..., “The Politics of Friendship,” Journal of Philosophy 85, no. 11 (1988): 632–44. See also Jacques Derrida, The Politics of Friendship , trans. George Collins (London: Verso, 2005); and Geoffrey Bennington, “Politics and Friendship: A Discussion with Jacques Derrida,” Centre for Modern French Thought...

... challenge to us. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Th is essay was fi rst read as a plenary lecture at the conference “Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora: Th e Th ought of Stuart Hall,” held at the Centre for Caribbean Th ought, University of the West Indies, Mona, 17–19 June 2004. I am...

... Super Plus Under 40 Artist of the Year—a jury prize—at a group exhibition mounted at the Mutual Gallery and Art Centre in Jamaica. 10 Prior to her return to Jamaica, McGilchrist practiced art that revolved around an axis of the body and its simultaneous occupation of isolated and manifold...

... subaltern and elite. If the question at the center of the ideological aaxexe debate in the 1970s was who rules, the question to which Stone turned his attention was what are rationalities by which rule is constituted and reproduced. Th e objective of Stone’s analysis was the identifi...

... still menacing, metropolitan center as the empire strikes back. My point is that both sides move. Both respond dialectically to the myriad internal contradictions along mul- tiple axes that they produce and reproduce in each other. One sees this complex dialectic RRhondahonda...

... In this view, it is Britain that is provincial to the Caribbean. What Hall has described is the process of reversing the gaze onto a center of power and consequently seeing it differently. Mine has been a similar experience in learning about art of the Caribbean: it has led to the position that I have come...