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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 110–121.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., then climate adaptation is a measure of how people recognize the political failures and the potentials of technology over time. The essay suggests that attention to Girvan’s writings is central to critical Caribbean scholarship on climate change for two reasons: his writings reflect the forms...
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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. Of the Barbudans sent to Antigua, many escaped the Codrington estates or never arrived...
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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 Generators and Survival—Hugo Letter,” Callaloo 14, no. 1 (1991): 75; originally published in Gloria I. Joseph and Hortense M. Rowe, eds., Hell Under God’s Orders: Hurricane Hugo in St. Croix—Disaster and Survival (St. Croix, VI: Winds of Change, 1990). 15 Dipesh Chakrabarty, “The Climate...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 122–132.
Published: 01 July 2020
... (2018): 570–95. 24 See Chelsea Harvey, “Here’s What We Know about Wildfires and Climate Change,” Scientific American , 13 October 2017, scientificamerican.com/article/heres-what-we-know-about-wildfires-and-climate-change/ . 23 See Matthew Larsen, “Analysis of Twentieth-Century Rainfall...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 169–170.
Published: 01 July 2021
... the future by grappling with the past. Indeed, several of the artists imagine the Caribbean past as “ahead of the curve,” offering a kind of prefigurative future, already here, into which are woven historical themes of climate change, memory, myth, marronage , multilingualism, postnationalism, and migration...
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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
... approach bears more affinities to Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert’s analysis of Cuban photography that although of a different nostalgic tone from Rivera’s similarly addresses the “environmental results of systemic misuse of the land and the early indications of climate change.” Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert...
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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
...-states. Finally, the essay suggests that our apocalyptic present makes the case for an abolitionist praxis to intentionally end this world that singularly values Man 2 / homo oeconomicus to save ourselves as a species. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 2018 Greenvale floods climate change...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 204–206.
Published: 01 March 2021
... memory and climate change, while negotiat- ing a global present. Aaron Kamugisha is a professor of Caribbean and Africana thought at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. He is the editor of ten books and special issues of journals on Caribbean and Africana thought and is the author of Beyond...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 263–265.
Published: 01 November 2023
... M ichaeline A. C richlow is a historical sociologist whose interests and research are on development, decolonization, global Blackness, and the global Caribbean. At Duke University, she teaches in the Department of African and African American Studies and codirects the lab Climate Change...
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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. Figure 1 Graffiti reading, “El desastre es la colonia” (“The disaster is the colony”), on a light meter six months after Hurricane Maria, 9 March 2018. Photograph by Lorie Shaull. Published...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
...? In this essay I analyze Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé ( Omicunlé’s Maid ), perhaps the first “cli-fi” novel in the Spanish 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...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 78–95.
Published: 01 July 2020
... in particular to the escalating catastrophe of climate change. 46 Those of us who work or live in the Caribbean know all too well the history of that vulnerability, which is not the natural effect of island geographies and seasonal cyclones but rather the long outcome of centuries of colonialism, slavery...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 106–121.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., questions such as climate change, the regulation of corporate and private wealth, and preparation for and responses to health pandemics and other threats necessitate collaborative, unified action; they require that the world’s peoples come to see themselves as protagonists on a common journey and act...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 210–219.
Published: 01 November 2021
... increasingly said to be one of the “most vulnerable”—vulnerable in particular to the looming catastrophes of climate change. Throughout the Caribbean, this emerging sense of a new vulnerability has gone hand in hand with a growing realization that political independence and sovereignty might be foreclosed...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 47–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
... change so severe and political-economic marginality so acute that it is not apocalyptic to wonder if the Caribbean will survive as we know it into the second half of the current century. 46 The 2010 earthquake in Haiti was the greatest disaster to befall the Caribbean since slavery, while climate...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 159–166.
Published: 01 July 2023
... sense of allyship with animal wildlife. And as he points out, this camaraderie feels more urgent in our age of climate change and mounting ecological disaster. Gosine, though, does not elaborate much further on this idea. There is, certainly, a growing body of compelling scholarship and collaborative...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 147–176.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Anthropocene—an epoch defined by the ostensible responsibility of all of humankind for the “systemic edge” 4 of planetary catastrophe encompassing lands, seas, species, pollution, and climate change. Yet in detailing the social and economic histories of precolonial Africa, HEUA —especially through...
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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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