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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 39–56.
Published: 01 March 2024
... vision and light. She contemplates what we cannot see in these images: buried entities that formed a network of power known to enslaved people, engaging Katherine McKittrick’s theory of Black geographies. Through these entities, people of African descent established blood ties with the earth of Jamaica...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 134–146.
Published: 01 November 2021
... an alternative—ancestral—terrain within the interior geographies of Indigenous Blackness. By framing ethnographic vignettes of Garifuna ancestral memory throughout the diaspora as an embodied archive of knowledge production, this essay demonstrates how Brathwaite’s mapping of an intellectual genealogy creates...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 95–116.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., the author first discusses Rodney’s engagements with the University of California, Los Angeles, as part of a longer history of Black intellectual and political activism and the geographies of Black radicalism on campus. The author then explores the question of methodology in Rodney’s book, especially...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 1–15.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Katherine McKittrick This essay explores plantation geographies. In drawing specific attention to the ways past configurations of the plantation are recast in post-slave urban contexts, the discussion signals the links between black dispossession and geography, while also considering how assertions...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 22–39.
Published: 01 March 2013
... politics but also the touchlines of the modern political field. This essay engages questions related to the function of geography in black political thought, to diaspora, to the significance of space, and to the possible readings of the postcolonial moment, as well as the political salience of sound...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 108–118.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Leniqueca A. Welcome This essay shows that despite the variegated experience of Black-identified people globally and the unstable and processual nature of Blackness as a category, the meaning of Blackness remains anchored in the geography of the plantation, and the deathliness this produces still...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 143–153.
Published: 01 March 2023
... proposes the concept “decolonial citizenship” as a framework to tackle the archival and scholarly invisibility of Black women’s contributions to decolonial movements and their espousing new ways of belonging that are grounded in practices, geographies, epistemologies, and communities that persist despite...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 55–68.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Katherine McKittrick’s and Sylvia Wynter’s work on plantation geographies, the author argues that the gulley, a site of mass burial in the center of the song, was also a site of Black cultural expression and futurity—a place where death and life, torture and escape, enslavement and freedom collided...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 46–59.
Published: 01 July 2022
... these categories are caught up with one another. Moreover, they situate categories of sexual subjectivity in the realm of the social, demonstrating that racial formations, geography, and political economy inflect and determine the ways people understand themselves in terms of sex. I write this essay as a non-Black...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 76–82.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... postcolonial state formation Black geographies transdisciplinarity informal tenure postnationalism Charles Carnegie © Small Axe, Inc. 2024 [email protected] Through these speculators, itinerancy becomes place. Through ethnography of these women (and they are mostly women), we learn...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 15–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
... (against plantation monoculture) through growing sweet potatoes, cassava, maize, taro, plantains, pigeon peas, and other vegetables. 7 Wedderburn’s provision grounds, I argue, resonate with what Katherine McKittrick calls black geographies, “innovative black diaspora practices that, in fact, spatialize...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 169–177.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., the time-space continuums in cultures of modernity.” 5 In conversation with this effort to rehistoricize creolization and global black geographies, Katherine McKittrick employs the idea of “plantation futures” as “a conceptualization of time-space that tracks the plantation toward the prison...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 90–104.
Published: 01 November 2018
... understanding of “a black sense of place”: With a black sense of place in mind, the plantation notably stands at the centre of modernity. It fostered complex black and non-black geographies in the Americas and provided the blueprint for future sites of racial entanglement. Diverse spatial practices—wherein...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 80–88.
Published: 01 November 2011
... that is gradually lowered from chest level, and they emerge on the other side, as their heads clear the pole, as
in the triumph of life over death.” Sojah Stanley-Niaah, “Mapping of Black Atlantic Performance Geographies: From Slave
Ship to Ghetto,” in Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods, eds., Black...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 116–126.
Published: 01 November 2021
... and circulated across geographies. Fourth, and finally, Wynter’s invocation of multiculturalism might be read here as another way of saying pluralism , and this accords with my claim that the terms of a Caribbean studies, including its appeals to pluralism, are coterminus with the Black studies project: it too...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 205–208.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in and chair of the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines the questions of racial capitalism, underdevelopment, and repair. He is author of Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020). His book on the consequences of the 1921 Tulsa race...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
... is a theory that tracks the geographies of land and sea, of coast and hinterland, and the daunting imperial and colonial forces that converge on the site of the body/flesh. Through a methodology of “simultaneous vision,” Tiffany King maps the enslaved black female body’s function as a “unit of space...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 194–196.
Published: 01 November 2019
... black American feminists to confront the inescapability of alienation, inauthenticity, and privilege. NALINI MOHABIR teaches postcolonial and feminist geographies at Concordia University, Quebec, Canada. Her work has been published in the Arts Journal, Journal of West Indian Literature, Small Axe...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 176–179.
Published: 01 March 2024
... © Small Axe, Inc. 2024 A ndré B rock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech. He writes on Western technoculture and Black cybercultures; his scholarship examines race in social media, video games, blogs, and other digital media. His book, Distributed Blackness...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 47–55.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of what happens, to quote Simone Browne, “when blackness enters the frame” of security studies. 3 My discussion here employs what might be read as a Maroon analytic. Its interventions move beyond and across rigid disciplinary fields. It instead enacts a shifting and challenging of boundaries as a way...
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