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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 88–107.
Published: 01 July 2013
.... These changes are taking place not simply through the workings of national institutions, such as schools and cultural life, but also through the circulation of assemblages of judges and lawyers, leaders, international nongovernmental organizations, and consultants who provide a certain level of expertise toward...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 20–38.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Charlotte Rogers In an era of deepening social and ecological calamity, artists from Puerto Rico currently address perennial questions of catastrophe in ways that foreground the island archipelago’s multispecies relationships: the dynamic assemblages of human and more-than-human organisms...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 173–180.
Published: 01 March 2014
... play in imagining, representing, and enacting their relationships with governmental actors and assemblages. © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 Deborah Thomas's Exceptional Violence is a broad-ranging, sophisticated book that intervenes in multiple debates. Its overarching aim is to develop a “reparations...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 103–114.
Published: 01 July 2024
... newspaper columnist, television talk show host. These trademarks represent the interwoven strands of the ideas she elaborates in her academic work and her interventions in the media, both local and international. Her brand is an assemblage of identities sharing a common ideological core: contesting many...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 18–34.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Minkah Makalani One of the appeals of imagining a future alternative to the political present is the possibility of shedding modernity’s constitutive colonial assemblages and its conceit of the inevitability of human progress. Yet it remains something of a paradox that even at their most radical...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 47–55.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of surveillance assemblages. But even more than a feeling, Maroon insecurity might be said to describe an experience of precarity. This attention to these Maroon in/securities revises the grand narratives of marronage in heroic terms that have often been dominant in the cultural and popular imagination across...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 34–49.
Published: 01 November 2019
... inflected that music and to how that music inflected geopolitics. Reading the evolution of Jamaican music since independence, this essay reveals how the form of James’s novel replicates the spectral and shattered assemblages of dancehall music in order to borrow some of its fugitive, subaltern autonomy...
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in Bleeding, Wailing, and Hypnosis: The Words and Images of Caroline “booops” Sardine
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2013
Figure 4. Caroline “booops” Sardine, big frens tun n-e-meee (detail), 2008. Mixed media assemblage, dimentions vary. Photograph by Jane Bryce
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 203–214.
Published: 01 November 2023
... “a hymn to home.” [email protected] © Heino Schmid 2023 Bahamas assemblages drawing mixed media home Figure 1 Another Lullaby , 2023 Acrylic and graphite on wood, with steel wire and mahogany pods 9 × 6.25 × 4.5 in / 22.9 × 16.5 × 11.4 cm Figure 1. Another Lullaby, 2023...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 80–99.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and geohistorical assemblage of sea spaces and islands. We delineate an idea of Caribbean space shaped by experiences of “disjuncture, connection and entanglement between and among islands,” and an insular imaginary focused on interchanges that occur between island, mainland, and sea in a “world of islands...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 16–34.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Figure 4. Caroline “booops” Sardine, big frens tun n-e-meee (detail), 2008. Mixed media assemblage, dimentions vary. Photograph by Jane Bryce ...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 49–60.
Published: 01 September 2004
... embraced the assemblage technique that has become funda-
mental to her sculpture. Later, when living in New York as an artist-in-residence at the
Studio Museum in Harlem, she explored the historical and psychological impact of
found objects as well as the viewer’s role in the completion of the work...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 88–99.
Published: 01 March 2015
... the social as a type of assemblage, tied together through “relations of linkage and effectivity between different levels of all sorts of things,” these things were related “as much through their differences as through their similarities.” The combination of civil society and the various forces and entities...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 114–124.
Published: 01 March 2014
...: ‘Crossing the Mangrove.’” I shrugged my shoulders. “You don't cross a mangrove. You'd spike yourself on the roots of the mangrove trees. You'd be sucked down and suffocated by the brackish mud.” “Yes, that's it, that's precisely it.” —Maryse Condé, Crossing the Mangrove There is an odd assemblage...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 161–173.
Published: 01 October 2006
..., dancehall
is revealed as an intrinsically complex material assemblage that does not and cannot valorize
the category of the authentic. Rather than an analysis centered mostly on language and lyri-
cal content, dancehall is in this way opened up as a political, economic, sonic, visual, haptic...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 180–190.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of California Press, 2003); Tavia Nyong'o, “‘I've Got You under My Skin’: Queer Assemblages, Lyrical Nostalgia, and the African Diaspora,” Performance Research 12, no. 3 (2007): 42–54; and Tavia Nyong'o, “I Feel Love: Disco and Its Discontents,” Criticism 50, no. 1 (2008): 101–12. See also Daphne A. Brooks...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 125–136.
Published: 01 September 2004
... from assemblages, painting, collages, installations, and sculp-
ture, ingeniously manipulates and synthesizes materials to produce elegantly rendered
forms that often, particularly in her early works, evoke elements of the fantastic. Belong-
ing to the fi rst generation of installation artists...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 159–168.
Published: 01 March 2015
... written off by some as a “closed discourse” and is commonly attacked as “identity politics.” What if? Some will certainly see these as small disciplinary or methodological concerns, or preoccupations of a particularly constituted assemblage of political and intellectual traditions. At the same time...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 128–134.
Published: 01 July 2009
... with
this while fulfilling a request from my mother to fix a torn photograph that was the only one of
her as a child. This process of rephotographing led me to construct still-life assemblages that
would incorporate or use the family photograph as the main element. Many indigenous people
claim that picture...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 83–88.
Published: 01 March 2024
... the context of “arrivant states,” scholars are reorienting our understandings of the relations among the political, the spiritual, and the sensual. 7 In doing so, they indict state sovereignty in crisis for its inability to accommodate an “antinostalgic human and nonhuman assemblage,” as Adriana Garriga...
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