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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 1–23.
Published: 01 July 2022
... as decolonial practices by dislocating the socially prescribed binding between performance and affect. Using the theories of Saidiya Hartman, José Esteban Muñoz, and Juana María Rodríguez, and connecting to the work of Rocío Zambrana on strategies that address the island’s colonial legacy, the essay explores...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 190–200.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of subjectivity. This theory is articulated through a characterization of Zambrana’s concept of “unbinding” as a process of desubjectivation enacted by decolonial practices in the context of material conditions of oppression. The essay also argues for the critical usefulness of phenomenological descriptions...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 1–15.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of decolonial practices, black life, and black futures are embedded in place. 45 Wynter, “Rethinking ‘Aesthetics,’” 271 (emphasis in original). 44 Leslie Sanders, “What the Poet Does for Us” (keynote lecture at “No Language Is Neutral: A Conference on Dionne Brand,” Toronto, Ontario, 14 October 2006...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 179–188.
Published: 01 July 2023
... decolonial politics. As part of a decolonial practice in queer studies, generally, as well as the specific possibilities for the Caribbean, what are the decolonial possibilities of animality? What kinds of relations does this allow us to reorganize with ourselves, each other, and the very instruments...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 201–218.
Published: 01 July 2024
... and the arguments about decolonial practices of “interruption.” All these analytical moves are grounded on a careful study of Puerto Rico. In the first chapter, titled “Neoliberal Coloniality,” Zambrana argues that “debt is a social, economic, political relation . . . [that] is at once material and ‘affective...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and decolonial feminist discourses and ethics help us understand literary and cultural productions as insurgent practices that are central to tracking and reformulating notions of decoloniality and Afro-diasporic studies. My work on the diasporic Afro-Atlantic hispanophone literatures makes racialized...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 143–153.
Published: 01 March 2023
... proposes the concept “decolonial citizenship” as a framework to tackle the archival and scholarly invisibility of Black women’s contributions to decolonial movements and their espousing new ways of belonging that are grounded in practices, geographies, epistemologies, and communities that persist despite...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 11–21.
Published: 01 March 2020
... perspectives on language, this essay proposes a reading of linguistic hierarchies in three multilingual Caribbean texts in conversation with theoretical models of decolonial language practices. Given the ways Caribbean Creoles have been marginalized by colonial language politics as well as the region’s...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 133–143.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Rican poetry—has provided the author with insight about the colonial conditions that structure translation as word-making practice, survival strategy, and decolonial methodology. In collaborating with Puerto Rican writers, translators, investigators, and scholars and sustaining a dialogue with a long...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 110–121.
Published: 01 July 2023
... demand a close consideration of the relationship between conquest, othering, racialization, commodification, and the reordering of the animal world with human animals as supreme beings. The contemporary reappropriation of the term alludes to a decolonial reframing, a unique opportunity to reject Western...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 150–168.
Published: 01 March 2019
... colonial representations and create community in profound ways. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s work on colonial epistemologies and representation in relation to questions of race and decolonization and on Rex Nettleford’s discussion of embodiment and marronage, the author lays out a method of decolonial...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 50–68.
Published: 01 November 2019
... by positioning Puerto Rican independence as central to a wider decolonial Caribbean and postwar world order. By analyzing Pueblos Hispanos ’s practice of “inter-nationalism”—a term the author proposes to denote the flexible strategy used to mediate between competing political interests and which can serve...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 34–48.
Published: 01 July 2024
... not consider the ongoing decolonial and everyday practices of the bodies that inhabit the archipelago. The video addresses the tension between confining the past and ignoring the transformative capacities of nostalgia. It is not by coincidence that the theme song for the episode, composed and performed...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 122–132.
Published: 01 July 2020
... science, valorizing black and indigenous knowledges about land and farming, and buttressing autonomy for women, girls, and gender-nonconforming people through the reclamation of small farming and egalitarian water management practices is more than an important feminist, trans/queer, and decolonial agenda...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 131–142.
Published: 01 March 2023
... frame—inspired by, but not limited to, Césaire’s archipelagic vision—could help us interrogate about alternative communities and the layers of decolonial citizenship. My comments are a practice in reimagining liberation, a practice that Joseph-Gabriel’s work frankly and quite beautifully makes...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 154–161.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and national identity, and the hierarchical model of belonging based on the state’s demarcation of good citizens and undesirables” (11). Practices of decolonial citizenship often aimed to “untether citizenship from the narrow confines of the nation-state as the only political community imaginable and advocate...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 43–58.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Shirley Tate Reading Heading South as a decolonial romance reveals anxiety about the liminal location of young male citizens in 1970s Haiti caught within the necropower of state terror and US imperialism. Focusing on young men selling “romance” on the beach within the continuing colonial relations...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 147–176.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., HEUA suggests the possibility of an alternative existence in the world, a veritable path toward a decolonial turn away from Development models that spur impoverishment through the maintenance of global North extractivist practices, ravaging territory while at the same time generating an African...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 100–122.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., the challenges for any “decolonial” practice are immense, and they move us away from naturalizing “status” to seriously consider the human condition instead: it is about the cockroach in the bird’s beak. Keeping in mind the dynamics of citizenship in the context of colonialism, racism, and anti-Semitism, we...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 14–30.
Published: 01 November 2022
... intellectuals—particularly because it has now been, arguably, appropriated in Western intellectual circles. 5 These Caribbean scholars were firmly anticolonial in their thinking—not decolonial . The sociologists Dylan Kerrigan and Daniel Nehring recently argued that postcolonial discourses come from...
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