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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 (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 144–153.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., and in the current rounds of colonial settlement through tax haven conditions in the realm of real estate. The essay shifts the language of anticolonial sensorial errancy to decolonial sensorial errancy to focus on the forms of “slow violence” of economic invasion/ control, the productivity of which presses us...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 201–218.
Published: 01 July 2024
... argument. The author introduces the general theoretical framework and presents specific historical and social accounts, then pursues a path from the laying-out of the analytical gaze to specifying the political posture. It discusses the book’s contributions to decolonial critique, Marxism, the analytics...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 11–21.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of literary multilingualism. Consequently, these writers employ a broad range of literary strategies that enrich decolonial conversations about social transformation by imagining models of communication that challenge colonial language hierarchies. The linguistic experimentation in “Luis Pie” demonstrates...
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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 (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Yomaira C. Figueroa This essay contends that Caribbean conceptualizations of relation, understood through the theorizing and political organizing of women of color feminists, offer decolonial possibilities that enable radical remappings of the Afro-Atlantic. The essay argues that the political...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 179–188.
Published: 01 July 2023
... frames Gosine’s questions as ones that pursue the decolonial possibilities of animality and suggests that Nature’s Wild offers us a blueprint for a Caribbean queer decolonial politic. Its primary inquiry resides in asking how animality adapts and signifies in potentially intersectional ways and whether...
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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 (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 143–153.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Shanna Jean-Baptiste This essay explores the decolonial future imagined by the Black women who make up Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (2020). A much-needed project of historical redress, Joseph-Gabriel’s study...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 131–142.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain. Thinking about Suzanne’s and Suzanne’s respective and overlapping relationships to Haiti, this essay is an exercise in implementing the decolonial methods and reimagining of national belonging that Joseph-Gabriel presents. For Comhaire-Sylvain, the burden of citizenship...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 122–132.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., The Agroecology Movement . 26 Macarena Gómez Barris, The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017), xv. 25 See Adriana Petryna, “Wildfires at the Edges of Science: Horizoning Work amid Runaway Change,” Cultural Anthropology 33, no. 4...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 154–161.
Published: 01 March 2023
... by her daughter Mame Coumba Ndiaye. Harmonizing with Joseph-Gabriel’s notion of decolonial citizenship, this essay asks how the stakes of Bâ’s work shift if we read her alongside Ndiaye’s overlooked text. While Black women of Bâ’s generation may have been more likely to be widely recognized than those...
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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 (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 (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 147–176.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Underdeveloped Africa as a predecessor to contemporary decolonial theory—signal an approach to alternative modes of knowing for generating new possibilities for life. © Small Axe, Inc. 2023 [email protected] Published fifteen years after the establishment of postcolonial African...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 65–79.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... Then it focuses on the meaning of the nineteenth century in the Spanish Caribbean, with particular attention to the Caribbean confederation and 1898 as key moments in the colonial and decolonial process of this region. Then the essay turns to the notion of criollismo in the Spanish Caribbean and its dialectic...
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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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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 37–43.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and Jamaica from the 1860s to 1898; the West Indies Federation became a governing body in the British Caribbean territories from 1958–62. These “con-federated” forms reverberate together in the idea of trans-Caribbean unity as a utopian reference for anti-imperial sovereignty and the decolonial achievement...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 194–196.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., decolonial, and abolitionist theory, combines more traditional ethnographic methods with photography and collaging. R ocío Z ambrana ’ s work explores decolonial thought and praxis in the Caribbean, specifically attending to the operation of capitalism in the region. She is the author of Hegel’s...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 176–193.
Published: 01 July 2022
... never been enough for the blackened position to not be violable with and in the name of White impunity. So to Rivera-Rideau’s considering toward the end of her essay that my “methodology might lead us to practice what Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez terms ‘decolonial love,’” my reply is, No. 49 I...
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