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... institution in the French context allows us to offer some clues to Hall's difficult reception in this intellectual landscape. © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 cultural studies critical institution disciplinary empires Birmingham Center In Figures of Dissent , Terry Eagleton suggests that “anyone...

... with Carby’s work and interdisciplinary methods here exposes the ongoing importance of critical disciplinary interrogations. What counts as history? What are historical methods in the genre of historical memoir? How do we use the personal to elaborate the global effects of empire? How is the genre...

...,” a process that names new categories of persons but also subjects them to an articulation of disciplinary powers not of their own making. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 After Empire: Training Lawyers as a Postcolonial Enterprise Mindie Lazarus-Black Ab s t r a c t : The early...

.... The former contests the power of disciplinary genres, boundaries, and methodologies; the latter requires acceding to the reproduction of conventional disciplinary structures, forms, tropes, and canons. In “An Intimate History of Empire,” an intellectually generous close reading of Imperial Intimacies...

... studies) trying to ascertain my disciplinary allegiance. 28 See Rafael Duharte Jiménez, Seis ensayos de interpretación histórica (Santiago de Cuba: Editorial Oriente, 1983), 83–88; Luis Martínez-Fernández, Torn between Empires: Economy, Society, and Patterns of Political Thought in the Hispanic...

... absences, specific to its production’” (3). 10 In this book, the historical sociologist is “integrating” these “critical approaches” that are otherwise “scattered across diverse disciplinary fields, historical periods, and area studies … into an empirically grounded historical study” (24...

... such as the following: What is the picture that informs our various imaginaries (scholarly, fictive, visual, poetic) of the Caribbean as a space of investigation? What is the content of the form of that image and what is the rhetorical labor that it performs? What is the point (political, conceptual, disciplinary...

... there has been a considerable Deadline: 15 November 2012 disciplinary upheaval (engendered by the (the selected essay will be published rise, for example, of poststructuralism, in Small Axe in 2013) postcolonial studies, and cultural stud- Length: Not more than 7,000 words...

... transformations taking place across the late 18th and 19th century Atlantic World. The discussion then moves to Paton’s engagement with Foucault, highlighting the vital importance of rethinking Foucault critically in the contexts of empire, race and gender. Finally, the article argues that the practice...

...Adom Getachew This review essay situates Christopher Taylor’s Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism (2018) in the context of the two-decade-long debate about the emergence of a liberal imperialism during the nineteenth century. Through an examination of the political...

..., yet these writers appear on syllabi, particularly in North America. My essay addresses and unpacks this claim about Brodber’s writing. Moving on quickly from problems of cultural specificity, I focus on the densely - inter disciplinary nature of Brodber’s textual knowledge...

... on coolie ships. 8 While empirically accurate, such approaches often rely on colonial accounting of life through numbers and statistics. How might we access and make sense of those bits and pieces that escape the schemata of colonial reports and cannot in fact be captured through numbers? What light...

... and constrained as a result of both marketing considerations and disciplinary categorizations—that is, within the columns marked business or diplomatic or even “Latin American” history. Instead, as the opening paragraphs of both comments demonstrate, Plummer and Burden-Stelly read Bankers and Empire from within...

... research on flight in, above, and between Barbados, Jamaica, and England, and is now writing a book, tentatively titled “Empire in the Air: Speed, Perception, and Airline Travel in the Atlantic World,” based on her dissertation. She is also coeditor of Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge...

... to attempts to secure the plantation as a space of bounded labor. In other words, this discussion is shaped by an understanding of the plantation as a historical and empirical site marked by protective borders and boundaries. 2 Yet when considered in relation to marronage, the plantation is revealed...

... the workings of colonial power differently racialize, value, incorporate, and exclude subjects of empire from one national locale to the next. Our convenings consistently inspired and freed many participants to fuse the autobiographical with other disciplinary modes. Incorporating the autobiographical...

... an investigation of the role of anthropological knowledge within Caribbean Studies. As such, Travels opens a window on the anthropological contribution to more general debates about nation-building throughout the circum-Caribbean. The author tracks anthropology's disciplinary history vis-à-vis the Caribbean...

... , in which the postcolonial present perpetuates and reproduces, under changed circumstance and conditions, the disciplinary apparatus of modern empire of the not-so-distant past. The government of India's extensive cultural-educational, financial, and bureaucratic efforts to solicit economic, diplomatic...

... of federation as a panopticon of postslavery racial capitalism to the establishment of federation in “the crumbling empire” as “a means to control decolonization.” 14 From Merivale to the establishment of a weak federation subject to Crown rule, the emancipatory potential of federation was up against...

... a landlocked territory frequently trespassed by surrounding historiographies that approach it from various sides and with a variety of purposes depending on author and audience. Perhaps this is because Haiti's history and influences have repeatedly crossed into other disciplinary territories. Still, history...