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... it to the test of the French context of the institutionalization of critical theories. I now return, therefore, to the question of institutional practice. Regarding the institution of the university, Hall pronounced these famous words: “The university is a critical institution or it is nothing...

..., is that (in Caribbean studies) this work began with concerted efforts by scholars, institution builders, and editors such as Sandra Pouchet Paquet, and still continues some two generations later. However, given the nature of this work and the length of time it has continued, it is critical that we consider whether...

... institution. This was noted by critics who pointed to its dominant-class bias and its illiberal and authoritarian features, as well as a lack of meaningful popular participation in the constitutional reform process. 10 Yet however much offense such flaws in constitution making caused democratically minded...

... economy alongside a critical engagement with cultural studies. Or, put simply, the question motivating my inquiry is this: How does one write a critical history of banking? Banks are “financial intermediaries.” 5 They are institutions organized to bring together savers and investors in order...

...Laurent Dubois This essay grapples with the problem of how to think Haiti's nineteenth century, analyzing a range of literature that has tackled the question and exploring key themes in these works. Understanding this period in Haiti's history is critical for any comprehension of the long-term...

..., and other critics of the postcolonial Caribbean gathered for the symposium marking the book’s twentieth anniversary, the essay discusses other closely interconnected historical legacies in Jamaica and the Caribbean—relatively low levels of trust and weak social institutions—that, along with race-thinking...

...Carolyn Cooper This essay traces the author’s intellectual trajectory as a Road Scholar translating academic discourse into the language of the street. Cooper acknowledges the trademarks by which she has come to be known: cultural critic, language-rights activist, feminist scholar, incisive...

... critical: feats of imagination seem necessary to challenge a total social form from within institutions designed to maintain it. [email protected] © 2025 by Small Axe, Inc. 2025 Nick Nesbitt capitalism Atlantic slavery Black Jacobins Nick Nesbitt’s The Price of Slavery...

... the site for a “circle of thought” to stage debate on critical issues emerging in the current social formation and to look toward the future. A distinction can be made between a scholarly “academic journal” ( xuebao ) that is institutional or university based, usually with a disciplinary focus...

... an essay on the African experience in the Americas for publication by the Institute of the Black World. This conference, the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), then held in the Caribbean for the first time, was a critical event in anglophone Caribbean criticism...

... deployed across the Caribbean as exhibition venue, critical interface, and medium. It conceives of the Caribbean as a space created within and through local and global formations. Caribbean art feminist art contemporary art Caribbean diaspora Caribbean art institutions © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 ...

...Andrea N. Douglas Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Facing the Nation: Art History and Art Criticism in the Jamaican Context Andrea N. Douglas n the opening comments for the 2000 Annual National Exhibition, Michael Cooke, then director of museums for the Institute of Jamaica...

... is a reader in African and Caribbean literatures in the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. He has edited several anthologies of ssmallmall aaxexe Caribbean poetry and prose, and several volumes of critical...

... is a reader in African and Caribbean literatures in the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. He has edited several anthologies of ssmallmall aaxexe Caribbean poetry and prose, and several volumes of critical...

... projects, which still tend to be structured by the interests of Western institutions. Digital communications, while offering some critical diversity, hardly appear to alleviate this situation, and given the uneven development of networked communications, the global South is arguably even more dependent...

... theory of the literary and visual arts—an aesthetic theory—concerning the conditions not only for the flourishing of individual artists and their individual works of art but also, and more importantly, for the flourishing of critical contact both among artists (as an interpretive community) and between...

.... Rather, it is necessary to understand the spatial politics taking place within each show, in each institutional context. In many ways, “Caribe insular” signified a major step in inserting a critical consciousness into international curatorial approaches to Caribbean art. It was conceived as part...

...Aaron Kamugisha This article critically appraises the wealth of cultural criticism and epistemological developments in the study of Caribbean societies now increasingly grouped under an emerging discipline termed Caribbean cultural studies. It advances the claim that the critical study of Caribbean...

... Maharaj, most of whom came to prominence as artists between the 1960s and the 1980s. The majority of the chapters are focused on a single artist's work, exploring his or her significance, acceptance, and recognition by critics, art institutions, national governments, and other artists—in other words...

... Prize for Global Cultural Understanding and finalist for the 2020 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize (Ameri- can Studies Association). Sarah Phillips Casteel is a professor of English at Carleton University, where she is cross- appointed to the Institute of African Studies. She is the author...