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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 161–174.
Published: 01 July 2018
... queer in North America and Europe. A distinctive feature of his perspective toward empiricism, as practiced throughout his publications, is the need to register gender, sexual, and social dissidence within the very regimes of truth that rendered them illegible. Thus, Tony’s saberes raros , we suggest...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 64–71.
Published: 01 July 2018
... in the Dominican Republic (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2016). 25 Ramírez, “Against Type,” 153, 154. 24 Decena and Portorreal Liriano, “ Saberes raros and Postdictatorial Empiricism,” 164. 23 Rachel Afi Quinn, “Dominican Pride and Shame: Gender, Race, and LGBT Activism in Santo...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 September 2003
... Stone (1940–1993), his theory of “clientelism” in particular. Or anyway, I will want to urge that Stone’s work is of fundamental value for precisely the reasons his hermeneutic critics have often found him wanting, namely his “end-of-ideol- ogy” empiricism and behaviorism. I shall...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 55–71.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... 2014 The historians of these territories have not hesitated to generalise and have sometimes generalised extremely rashly from principles by no means based upon the findings of historical empiricism. —Elsa Goveia, A Study on the Historiography of the British West Indies Haiti is not weird...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 173–179.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of acoustics nor the transcendental plane of pure reason, as Henriques's triadic conception of the corporeal suggests. It is a vector that communicates between them. The engineers, selectors, and MCs Henriques studies enact what Deleuze styled “transcendental empiricism” every time they employ a collective...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 99–107.
Published: 01 July 2012
... as historical datum and the logical corollary of redefining the archive. The argument also recalls Gordon Rohlehr's meticulous dissecting of the narrow empiricism of Eric Williams's From Columbus to Castro . 15 Rohlehr's scathing description of Williams's concept of Caribbean historiography...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 200–209.
Published: 01 July 2009
...). It is not so much attention to discursive fields that differentiates Price’s (or Tooy’s) work but something more basic: Price’s commitment to the importance, and validity, of empirical research. Notably, dedication to empiricism can, and does in Price’s hands, allow for plurals: multiple authenticities...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 110–121.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of technology transfer and how people make decisions about how they want to live. In short, Girvan’s inquiry was driven by empiricism and a skepticism toward treating technology as having a single political genealogy. His appreciation for the embodiment of technology is what I find helpful in tracing Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 89–99.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., concerned as they need to be with the preservation of a certain documentary empiricism, must generally avoid. Confiant puts this privilege to good use when he allows two of his major characters, Monsieur Jean and Jacques Chartier (who stand in, respectively, for poetry and prose, the sensuous, third...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 95–107.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Sheehan, eds., Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500–1800 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009), 247–70; Junia Ferreira Furtado, “Tropical Empiricism: Making Medical Knowledge in Colonial Brazil,” in James Delbourgo and Nicholas Dew, eds., Science and Empire in the Atlantic...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 103–118.
Published: 01 November 2012
... financial independence and her ability to support herself . . . [and her] project, too, is rooted in western notions of knowl- edge based on secular and rational empiricism.”10 Mammy King—Brodber’s representative of the rural African American community—slyly resists this outsider’s...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2019
... don’t believe , I say I don’t know , I know what I see with my eyes and I never see it.” (70; italics in original) Christophine associates knowledge with seeing and suggests that belief does not hinge on empiricism. Her attitude thus shows a literal commitment to what she can see: the local...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., foreclosed epistemological subjectivity; and Cornelius Benjamin, a Guggenheim fellow at the University of Chicago, presented “Some Principles of Empiricism,” which undertook a philosophical history of the term—especially Bertrand Russell’s work in the 1930s. Alfred Métraux, then a fellow at the Smithsonian...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2023
... archive privileges, in turn alerting us to the “impossibility that conditions our knowledge of the past,” as Saidiya Hartman puts it. 32 Nonetheless, this impossibility has served as inspiration for critical inquiry that is less invested in a drive toward empiricism and more in the realm of the “what...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 34–56.
Published: 01 July 2019
... and taking up the perspectives of enslaved and colonized black women. This essay builds on the work of scholars such as Marisa Fuentes, Saidiya Hartman, and Mimi Sheller who have questioned the role of power in the production of black women’s history and challenged notions of empiricism that continue...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 97–246.
Published: 01 June 2006
... that even when you have statistics it’s only one way of achieving insight. It can’t be the total way. DS: But your whole orientation, your whole hermeneutical orientation, is one that has eschewed empiricism. RN: Well, not totally. DS: I don’t mean the empirical; I...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 96–242.
Published: 01 March 2013
... (and one sees this in The Ordeal of Integration quite starkly), the melding, if you like, of existentialism, rationalism, and empiricism. Your commitments to existentialism appear more strongly in some works of yours than in others, but it is a consistent thread; at the same time there is also a strong...
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