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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 179–189.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Rico as case study. This intervention, the author speculates, moves the book’s analysis into a more intramural critique where Zambrana centers an interrogation of the “vitality” of the “laboratory” that is the factory, or of the plantation economy as the materialized prefiguration for financialized...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of her current work in Caribbean political economy, particularly concerning figures of speculation that perpetuate the logic of the trade-plantation complex in contemporary financialized capitalism. The essay moves from the forms of economic violence generated by the link between debt and austerity...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2020
... expropriation, labor superexploitation, and (neo)colonial absorption of financial risk. Next, it analyzes antiblackness—understood as legitimating architecture that devalues, distorts, criminalizes, and abjects those racialized as black—as a constitutive feature of racial capitalism. Finally, the essay...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 187–196.
Published: 01 July 2020
... at the epicenter of their financial projects, which employed racism as a technology to banking interests, and racial capitalism grafted itself onto existing hierarchical systems. Hudson has shown the banks to be heirs to a long history of Caribbean commerce that tracks the shadowy line between the legal...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 17–39.
Published: 01 November 2017
... on diasporic bodies to demonstrate specific forms of counter-memory. Rather than supporting this binary or the ethical distinctions it relies on, Chariandy and Espinet underscore embodied memory's fragility and offer an unexpected archival alternative in diasporic characters' financial records. © Small Axe...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 154–167.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Susan Thorne The Slave Compensation Commission distributed no less than £20 million between 1834 and 1845, making compensation “the largest single financial operation undertaken by the British state to date.” In his book The Price of Emancipation , Nicholas Draper uses the commission's untapped...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 154–171.
Published: 01 July 2013
...D. Alissa Trotz; Beverley Mullings Drawing on the way international financial institutions, development organizations, and the state have “discovered” the investment possibilities of diasporic populations, this essay suggests new directions for a reinvigorated approach to Caribbean studies, one...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 22–37.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Peter James Hudson Although the historical impact of banking and financial institutions on the formation of the contemporary Caribbean has been profound and pervasive, the historical writing on banking and finance in the Caribbean has largely been neglected and marginalized. This essay explores...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 16–34.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Jane Bryce In a context of educational, social, and financial marginalization of artistic practice in the anglophone Caribbean, the high degree of self-motivation and resilience required of artists is often manifest in their work. This essay profiles one such artist, the young Vincentian Caroline...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 169–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 racial capitalism financialization criminalization surplus populations anti–money laundering Black repair In 2016 Harper’s magazine published excerpts from a 1994 interview with John Ehrlichman, domestic affairs adviser to US president Richard Nixon...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 197–207.
Published: 01 July 2020
... by Plummer and Burden-Stelly provide greater context for and give greater illumination to many of the fundamental questions that Bankers and Empire grapples with, especially those primal inquiries about the history of banking and financial institutions in the practice of US imperialism in the Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 1–14.
Published: 01 November 2023
... not lead her to become a proponent of Black freedom. On the one hand, she considers the enslaved to be deserving of kindness, and, on the other, she understands that cruel treatment of the enslaved can have dire financial consequences. Even as she plays the role of an eccentric, colorblind thespian...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 76–84.
Published: 01 July 2016
... of academia. The independence from institutional demands does lead to greater autonomy, although the journal is instead integrated in online networks in which it has to constantly address the changing protocols of open source software and the uncertainty of digital “beta” culture. The lack of financial...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 168–177.
Published: 01 March 2012
... years of forced unpaid labor under “apprenticeship.” The Price
of Emancipation seeks to explain why the financial compensation was paid and to set out
precisely who were the British slave owners who benefited from it. It places the debates over
compensation to slave owners in the wider context...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 90–104.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., urban and rural vistas, reggae and dancehall music, statements made on behalf of international financial institutions, and conversations with residents and environmental nongovernmental organizations), it also prompts further analysis of wider narratives that are less frequently viewed as cartographic...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 149–160.
Published: 01 March 2014
... the putative heir: I the son and heir was questioned and advised on school good manners on business the Chinese way. 46 The uncle brings with him a rhetoric of a tripartite Chinese identity based on academic and financial success, performance of social etiquette, and demonstrations of “respect...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2011
... financiers qui menace la paix de la démocratie.3
On the contrary, such contemporary injustices, far from leaving us paralyzed, should rouse us
to collective moral action. (Hessel also names the Israeli blockade of Gaza, and especially the
3 Hessel, Indignez-vous!, 11–12; “The core...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 144–153.
Published: 01 March 2012
... Parliament voted to accept the government’s plan to abolish
slavery, a plan that coupled an agreement that enslaved people should, eventually, become
juridically free with a scheme to provide financial compensation to slaveholders in consider-
ation of their “lost property.” People with direct material...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 201–218.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of deindustrialization leading to financialization and indebtedness that became chronic. She takes us through a quick tour of Puerto Rican political economy from colonial Fordism and developmentalism (1947–73), to colonial neoliberalism that turned into a chronic condition of debt crisis in the early twenty-first...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 105–114.
Published: 01 November 2018
... the financial accumulation associated with individual sales in Port of Spain and in Linstead, we must also note the necessary investment required for such activities and the financial regulation of these spaces read by travelers as simply “animated,” bustling, or disordered scenes. Antigua’s market regulations...
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