...Patricia Noxolo This essay serves as an introduction to a special section of Small Axe on Caribbean in/securities. It begins by offering a threefold insight into the concept of “in/securities”: securities and insecurities are produced as spatially localized and historically contingent...

..., and bredren , a word initially constructed in Rastafarian lexicon as a masculinist expression of collective solidarity. Examining the construction of gaydren highlights the cultural work of Jamaican activists as they transform North Atlantic political discourses to align with the particular contingencies...

... is contingent on specific individual and collective action, suggesting that the future could still perhaps be otherwise. 18 “Te estábamos esperando, viniste de muy lejos a salvarnos, lucero del agua, ahora te voy a ayudar a recordar”; ibid., 107. 19 See Paul Slovic and Daniel Västfjäll, “The More We...

..., and of the sedimented yet contingent racial logics underlying constructions of Englishness and Britishness. This brief discussion essay considers the book’s eccentric form and method as a challenge to imperial history, its methodological commitments, and its archival moorings. Carby offers a powerful critique...

... in which Stuart Hall is, preeminently, a theorist of the present and of the present’s contingency. I will emphasize that for Stuart respecting contingency is less an orientation toward Truth per se, than responsiveness to an ethics of action. Next, I take up Stuart’s relation...

... simultaneously by a desire for settled identities and by an unsettling genealogical ethic of pluralization.” 48 It makes it possible for our contingent identities now to be reimagined as semi-autonomous spheres of internal debate and historical traditions of argument (as Scott would have them), rather than...

... finitude, not a philosophic abstraction now, but face to face with what you might have called, with a slow, sardonic smile, the final play of contingency. So, I wonder whether finitude isn't precisely a word that bears reflection in relation to you because of what it illuminates about the tension between...

... the formation of black modernity in the transatlantic circuits constituted by Harlem and Paris, and it persuasively elaborates a paradigm of black diaspora studies that is attuned to the provisional, contingent, and asymmetrical NNadiadi...

..., then what is to prevent us from adopting a dialectical model, not as a Hegelian synthesis but simply and quite unmetaphysically as an account of the way ideas “play themselves out in the contingent field of political action.”6 A theoretical (rather than narrative) account of that logic is what my book...

... actors of the revolution (his relation to Che Guevara is often spoken of) and who has had to ask himself, in hard contingent circumstances (as revolutionary circumstances commonly are), what the relation should be between the poet and the politician. He and I spoke for nearly an hour, covering a number...

... of praedial larceny (of the property of other exslaves) made it clear that in the fight for survival nothing was sacrosanct and all allegiances were contingent. When this reality is placed alongside the fact that many had to return to the plantation for waged labor in order to survive, the divides between...

..., contingently, unfolding dialogical realities. For example, during my interview with Richard Hart in London in 1997 and 1998, he always insisted on immediately getting up to go check his voluminous files to make sure he had given me the correct information. The facts mattered to him. With Sylvia, what I...

... coconstitution of personal and political contingencies, overwhelmed by catastrophe—by murder (of the anticolonial leader Shepherd and the arch colonialist Crabbe); by tragedy (in the contingent actions that lead to the fire at the mental asylum that kills, among others, the boy Rowley and Mark’s estranged...

.... It is the adventure of the journey that matters, with all the contingencies and risk of failure involved. New World Quarterly was an unrepeatable historic event in the intellectual life of the early postindependence anglophone Caribbean. Small Axe belongs to its own and very different Caribbean conjuncture...

... of departure and return. This would suggest a moribund project. But it does imply that the mode of change of a project is distinctive. Not surprisingly change grows from the inside out, responsive not only to deliberative reasons but also to unforeseen contingencies that change the conditions of our...

... impossible differences. These writers, therefore, foreground an understanding of belonging that simultaneously acknowl- edges both the failures and possibilities, the contingencies and contradictions of female everyday experiences, and, as such, force a more complex discussion...

... of the society, state agents also embraced the most alienated and rebellious contingents long inured to lawlessness, crime, and predation. Beginning in the early 1960s younger members of this group who had already found a vocation in criminal employment now gained limited forms of social...

... it is necessary to remind readers that in his own work on Saramaka, memory—whether reaching all the way back to Africa, or only to more recent times—is hardly something that is “passively” preserved; rather, it is “socially contingent” and very much “subject to human agency” (304). In the end, whether one...

... but of multigenerational processes of change and development that are moreover contingent upon nonhuman factors such as the physical 3 Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Boston: Beacon), 98. 4 Michel-Rolph Trouillot, “The Odd and the Ordinary: Haiti...

... of the Tribe of Judah. But there are words I do not want to declare aloud in the middle of a street market in Kingston in 1993: “I am Jewish.” Why not? Slavery. Financiers. Merchants. Syrians. Seaga. CIA. Gaza. Intifada. In the contingency of the moment of the standoff I was unable to improvise an adequate...