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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 78–95.
Published: 01 July 2020
... responses to crisis, such as protests over the high cost of living or government corruption, with ordinary or seemingly banal disasters, such as a capsized boat that led to the deaths of dozens of overseas migrants to show how the political crisis in Haiti appears in people’s lives in both ordinary...
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The Infrastructures of Liberation at the End of the World: A Reflection on Disaster in the Caribbean
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 96–109.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Leniqueca A. Welcome Looking ethnographically at the 2018 flooding of Greenvale Park, Trinidad, and in conversation with disasters and their aftershocks throughout the region, this essay explores the entanglements of crisis, loss, and liberation. Drawing on the grassroot responses to recent not-so...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 22–38.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., between humanitarianism and culture in the Caribbean, and between the photojournalism of disaster and the musicology of the disaster telethon. Even as Haitians sang widely in response to the earthquake, the disaster telethon, in its visual depiction of the sufferers, did not broadcast Haitians singing...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 124–133.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Daniel Morel © Daniel Morel 2011 DOI 10.1215/07990537-1443349 © Daniel Morel ©Daniel 10.1215/07990537-1443349 DOI 2011 •November 36 axe small
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Published: 01 July 2020
Figure 1 Graffiti reading, “El desastre es la colonia” (“The disaster is the colony”), on a light meter six months after Hurricane Maria, 9 March 2018. Photograph by Lorie Shaull. Published with Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 2.0, www.flickr.com/photos/number7cloud/25836790197/in/album
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 169–170.
Published: 01 July 2021
... repair. It considers how the multiple devastations of recent “unnatural disasters” in the Caribbean are the outcome of the coloniality of climate, the deadly logics of racial capitalism, and the persistence of antiblack racism globally. The coloniality of climate calls for attention to repair, care...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 186–198.
Published: 01 November 2021
... calls for more critical studies on what Haitians can teach us about the importance of hope in times of disaster, about the understanding of hope as a pervasive feeling. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 Small Axe, Inc. 2021 radical hope Haiti postearthquake life and death...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 20–38.
Published: 01 March 2024
... by crafting an aesthetics of ecological reinvention that neither hearkens back to a falsely harmonious ecological past nor foretells an entirely apocalyptic planetary future. Caribbean multispecies studies complicate commonplaces of ecocriticism by troubling the neat division between spectacular disaster...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
... travel seeks to revert the result of negative actions in the past, eliminating uncertainty retrospectively. And yet moral freedom, the mark of the human, requires uncertainty to function, which thwarts time travel as a messianic genre. Yet even in failure, time travel reminds us that impending disaster...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 122–132.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Adriana María Garriga-López This essay addresses the epistemic limits of crisis as a trope for thinking about the future of Puerto Rico in the context of fiscal austerity programs and the combined effects of multiple disasters. Small-scale agriculture and mutual aid offer models of resistance to US...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 133–146.
Published: 01 July 2020
... and refused private land ownership, citing communal land as their shield, these issues have resurfaced in the rebuilding process after Hurricane Irma. Barbudans’ desires to maintain their previous way of life remain hampered by the Antiguan government’s disaster capitalist desires to reconstruct Barbuda...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 22–43.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Chelsey L. Kivland Since 2010, “Jerry” has become Haiti's most prominent graffiti artist. Dealing with the most sensitive issues of the day—disaster, insecurity, illiteracy, aid dependency, corruption, and poverty—he has canvassed Port-au-Prince and other cities with murals that invite compassion...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 147–162.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Figure 1 Graffiti reading, “El desastre es la colonia” (“The disaster is the colony”), on a light meter six months after Hurricane Maria, 9 March 2018. Photograph by Lorie Shaull. Published with Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 2.0, www.flickr.com/photos/number7cloud/25836790197/in/album...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 67–77.
Published: 01 July 2020
... (November 2019): 32. 34 On the prescient framing of “aftershocks” vis-à-vis climate disaster and the project of Caribbean criticism, see Bonilla and LeBrón, Aftershocks of Disaster . 33 Quoted in Norman Girvan, “Caribbean Integration: Can Cultural Production Succeed Where Politics...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 227–243.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., … I need to talk about the earthquake.” 4 Such associations between Haiti and catastrophe or disaster did not arise without precedent, though. As specialists across a number of disciplines have sought to explain, these associations have had a long tendency to govern international attention...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 140–150.
Published: 01 November 2018
... , 2016 ; 192 pages; ISBN 978-0822362944 (paperback) Copyright © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2018 Haiti black girlhood disaster narratives black suffering This little girl was at the beginning of this work, and she occupies its center. —Christina Sharpe, In the Wake Among...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 96–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of Disenchantment (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015). 19 Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine; or, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Picador/Henry Holt, 2008), and The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes On the Disaster Capitalists (Chicago: Haymarket, 2018). 20 See Ángel López...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 1–23.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., exposing the government’s necropolitical policies and its self-interested call to the public to be “resilient” and accept that they—not the government that they had democratically elected to represent them—were responsible for their own disaster recovery. Yet the impact of the chat was deeper...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 171–180.
Published: 01 November 2018
... family between May 2013 and February 2014. I began there because as I wrote and thought, and joined others who were writing and thinking, about black people in the midst of disaster everywhere, murdered, shipped, imprisoned, and corralled, I was deep in multiple losses. I thought that those losses needed...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 110–121.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of Public Works to the Ministry of Public Infrastructure. For the sake of clarity, I used its current name throughout this essay. 6 On insurance, see Kevin Grove, “Preempting the Next Disaster: Catastrophe Insurance and the Financialization of Disaster Management,” Security Dialogue 43, no. 2 (2012...
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