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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 110–121.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Sarah E. Vaughn This essay offers a critical perspective on the role technology plays in the Caribbean formation of climate adaptation. It locates this critical perspective in “the embodiment of technology,” a concept in the writings of the late political economist Norman Girvan that helped him...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 169–170.
Published: 01 July 2021
... tradition, saving us from our own alienation, colonization, and ambivalence. This essay takes inspiration from Beyond Coloniality to respond to the climate-political-social-cultural crisis in the Caribbean and to think through the possibilities for futurity in relation to reparative justice and ecological...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 68–80.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and a changing regional climate. It sheds light on some of the local-scale implications of these wider structural and ecological changes and highlights that the impacts are likely to produce uneven vulnerability outcomes mediated largely around differences in the socioeconomic landscapes in which farmers operate...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 67–77.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of postcolonial sovereignty, this essay considers how climate crisis demands a refusal of the state form as the limit to a regional political horizon and a rejection of nationalist historiography as a basis for the project of Caribbean criticism. The plight of Haitian nationals in The Bahamas is a case in point...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 133–146.
Published: 01 July 2020
... as a resort paradise. This essay reveals how climate change, economic fragility, and uncertain sovereignty have collectively undermined Barbuda’s customary forms of independence, leaving dispossession in their wake. In March 2018, the Antiguan Parliament moved to repeal the land act altogether. Trevor...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 147–176.
Published: 01 November 2023
... compounded crises bound up with the afterlives of colonialism—coming to a head in the form of planetary climate catastrophe and its attendant sociopolitical degradations—have rightfully renewed demands for a decolonization of the contemporary world. The three orientations that guide the essay—the conflict...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 128–143.
Published: 01 July 2018
... for the duration of his service, as he and his husband promoted an “out and proud” homonormativity that contradicts the more conventional “open secret” of LGBT lives in the Caribbean. This essay draws on ethnographic field notes, participatory research, and an online archive regarding the climate for LGBT...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 63–72.
Published: 01 July 2024
... refusals that are still necessary in an intellectual climate where the Caribbean continues to struggle against the hegemonizing demands of elite Pan-African solidarities. [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 Gordon Rohlehr dancehall feminism Black Atlantic reggae For years I...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 122–132.
Published: 01 July 2020
... within the crisis). Rather, on the island, as elsewhere, artists and small farmers have acted as epistemic leaders in practices of anticipatory freedom. 17 There are major ecological adjustments ahead for Puerto Rico. The challenges posed by climate disruption are severe and have implications...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 45–51.
Published: 01 July 2016
... , as well as others like the Little Review , the Masses , and even Harlem's ill-fated Fire!!! , are rightly credited with ushering in or sustaining that wider critical climate and sensibility we call modernism. This was a climate that despite incestuous in-groups, intense intellectual and ideological...
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The Infrastructures of Liberation at the End of the World: A Reflection on Disaster in the Caribbean
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 96–109.
Published: 01 July 2020
... 2018 Greenvale floods climate change Caribbean politics abolition apocalypse On Wednesday, 17 October 2018, the rain came to Trinidad and Tobago. 1 Its arrival was deceptive. Cloaked as a guest bearing gifts, the rain promised a respite from heat so cruel that it had made the suffocating...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 208–210.
Published: 01 July 2020
... currently held in the French National Colonial Archives. Sarah e. VauGhn is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Univer- sity of California, Berkeley. She has engaged in the critical study of climate change through ethnographic research of the geotechnical-hydraulic engineering...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 20–38.
Published: 01 March 2024
... ecocriticism environmental humanities Puerto Rico disaster Hurricane Maria What is the role of art amid climate disaster? This question has often been overshadowed by well-justified public attention to the state’s (in)actions in the face of environmental catastrophes. 1 Recent discussions of twenty...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 186–202.
Published: 01 July 2013
... and adaptation of external concepts. Consequently, notions of program and responsiveness to the peculiarities and specificities of place, climate, and local culture are easily and readily subsumed by the expediency of more generalized or homogenous formal aesthetic strategies. The demands placed...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 80–84.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the region. The project of Caribbean studies sits at a juncture in which dominant meanings are unsettled by professional academics and vernacular intellectuals. In our contemporary climate, touchstone concepts of sovereignty, development, decolonization, Indigeneity, and marronage, among others, resist taken...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 147–162.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., or even the looming threats of climate change but the slowly accruing effects of raciocolonial governance. Disasters are commonly said to unmask social structures. 2 In that sense both Hurricane Maria and the larger economic and political crisis that surrounds it have created moments of reckoning...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Caribbean, owing to its concern with climate change. 3 The story moves among several time periods in the Dominican Republic—1606, 1991 to 2001, and 2027 to 2037. Indiana’s science fiction novel ventures outside of realistic, or even scientific, domains to speculate about our ethical obligations...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 80–94.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., postemancipation territory seeking to fend off aggressive outside interference—ought to be understood within a similar frame. So perilous was the climate for autonomy at midcentury that one Dominican novelist imagined that a sea of “awful pirates” and “hordes of jackals” surrounded the island. 49 Outside...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 21–42.
Published: 01 March 2004
... and
consist of three members of the colonial administration—one member of the upper
house of the legislature and six elected members from the lower house.
Th ese changes in the colonial administration were accompanied by shifts in the
2244 political climate within the colony. Th e war...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 133–150.
Published: 01 March 2002
... erent historical periods that provide the climate in which black women’s
organizations simultaneously become part of and strive to build a more politically aware
community. Second, I draw attention to “blackness,” to notions of the nation and to the
tensions and contradictions in using...
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