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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 169–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Beverley Mullings This essay considers how the historical production of the Caribbean as a space of relative surplus populations is implicated in contemporary efforts to criminalize and contain flows of finance across its borders. Extending a key theme in Jovan Scott Lewis’s Scammer’s Yard...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 152–161.
Published: 01 November 2014
... transphobia is informed by racism in the course of MacDonald's experience in the criminal justice system. © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 CeCe McDonald transgender studies black feminist studies black queer studies Smoldering in the rage and grief ignited when Trayvon Martin's murder was ruled self...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 108–118.
Published: 01 July 2022
... haunts the anglophone Caribbean. The focus is on how this haunting is palpable to the criminalized urban poor in Trinidad; yet Black has never simply denoted abjection. From the vantage point of postcolonial Caribbean nation-states founded on anticolonial projects of Black sovereignty, one can see...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2020
... expropriation, labor superexploitation, and (neo)colonial absorption of financial risk. Next, it analyzes antiblackness—understood as legitimating architecture that devalues, distorts, criminalizes, and abjects those racialized as black—as a constitutive feature of racial capitalism. Finally, the essay...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 154–167.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of what George Soros has called “free market fundamentalism.” The New Poor Law's role in the criminalization of poverty is widely acknowledged. So too was the emergent gospel of free trade strengthened by the British state's “disciplined” response to the Irish famine. Slave owner compensation also...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 46–59.
Published: 01 March 2010
... News . This history is of relevance to Jamaican and other postcolonial sexuality based movements existing under threats of archaic colonial statutes criminalizing homosexuality. The article further argues that an understanding of sexual activism in Jamaica can serve as a supplement to transnational...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 1–20.
Published: 01 July 2017
...G. A. E. Griffin This intervention in the problem of representation and postcoloniality examines the proliferating newspaper photographs of accused criminals in the former British colony of Nevis. These images instantiate what Frantz Fanon describes as an “autoscopic” hallucination, the effect...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 72–94.
Published: 01 March 2003
... 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...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 173–180.
Published: 01 March 2014
... (and beyond) have often been suffused with and enacted by extra-state, non-state, or quasi-legal entities” (6). These tantalizing statements are not, however, sufficiently elaborated empirically in the chapters that follow. In recent years, so-called criminal dons have perhaps been the most salient group...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 163–168.
Published: 01 March 2022
... as his attitude to the scamming (a suspension facilitated by the formal noncriminalization of scamming at the time, and narrated as inaction or refusal whenever there was a risk that Lewis might become more actively involved in the criminality [see, e.g., 66]). Lewis’s own respectable positioning...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 118–129.
Published: 01 October 2007
... are ideological companions of the 1986 Trinidad and Tobago Sexual Offences Act
criminalizing sexual relations between women for the first time.
Alexander’s style is mnemonic and highly suggestive, inviting us to remember—to add
other dimensions to her analysis—and to see if, and how, her...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 88–107.
Published: 01 July 2013
... an international body to manage international crimes against human rights and peace. Robinson is said to have requested that the International Law Commission consider the establishment of an international criminal court that would deal with various crimes of great magnitude that would warrant the concern...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 81–89.
Published: 01 November 2018
... West Kingston Commission of Inquiry In August 2009, the Jamaican government received a request from the US government to extradite Christopher “Dudus” Coke, who was at the time the island’s most powerful criminal leader, or “don.” This confronted then prime minister Bruce Golding and the ruling...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 2008
... Town Rock is a searing threnody, and its polyphonic
weave of genres and texts—poignant memoir, recontextualized radio transcripts and news-
paper stories, poetic meditation and Anansi fable—bears witness to the personal and social
traumas engendered by criminal and state violence over the period...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 208–210.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of Pennsylvania. Combining more traditional fieldwork methods with photography and collaging, her research seeks to better understand the transnational production of threat, the criminalization of geogra- phies and bodies, and self-making among those categorized as threat/criminal. Most broadly, she is interested...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 138–151.
Published: 01 November 2014
... rituals of expulsion and dehumanization. By following three main groups of people who are both made into themselves and transformed into something else by/in law—slaves, criminals, and prisoners of war—she demonstrated that the work of servile law is to make and unmake persons, to create new classes...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 122–127.
Published: 01 July 2023
... that leaves space for that which was withheld. 17 “Answered that she went maroon because her master beat her and that she’d been [a Maroon] for around two months”; ibid. (Goton), 24V. 16 “For having been caught [as a] Maroon”; “Criminal Prosecution” (Theresa), 27V. “For having been a Maroon [woman...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 191–204.
Published: 01 March 2022
... it surprising that he aligns his argument so closely with arguments that justify criminal actions.” But Noxolo makes this point to emphasize later that “rather than taking part in a politics of respectability that would refuse any intimacy with the scammer,” my analysis shows the scammer “as an instantly...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 130–138.
Published: 01 October 2007
... in their respective territories as parliaments enacted bills
that simultaneously protected women and girls from sexual assault, penalized marital violence
and then didn’t, and reinforced existing legislation criminalizing “unnatural” sex, including the
criminalization, for the first time...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 50–68.
Published: 01 July 2021
... criminalization and oppression, Rolando centralizes the role of la regla de ocha or lucumí as a means of activating memories lost to history. Reading Rolando’s film through the lens of the spiritual, this section focuses on the ways spirituality within the space of the private creates hegemonic historical...
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