... grounds as a land commons that produce food sovereignty and communal identity. Then he represents the Jamaican Maroons’ local ecological knowledge as a source of resistance to plantation economies. Using Sylvia Wynter’s environmental theories of resistance, this essay argues that Wedderburn’s political...

... fugitivity marronage sabor flavor food sovereignty In her 2019 article “A Pilgrimage to the Keeper of Puerto Rico’s Past, before She Disappears,” the food writer Illyanna Maisonet recounts her journey to explore Puerto Rico’s culinary past. Her voyage takes her to el Burén de Lula, a restaurant...

... Center, University of Colorado, 2018), hazards.colorado.edu/quick-response-report/small-scale-food-production-and-the-impact-of-water-shortages-in-puerto-rico-after-hurricane-maria . 37 Adriana María Garriga-López and Fa’anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa, “Contested Sovereignties: Puerto Rico and American...

... to ward off the Navy’s eviction can be heard echoed today in la Colmena Cimarrona’s mutual aid farming project that seeks food sovereignty. What is singular about Santiago Muñoz’s cinema is its ability to present the palimpsest nature of nature as a continuity of modalities of invasion/control. 30...

... of postcolonial sovereignty, this essay considers how climate crisis demands a refusal of the state form as the limit to a regional political horizon and a rejection of nationalist historiography as a basis for the project of Caribbean criticism. 36 George Lamming, “The West Indian People,” New World...

..., Haiti continues to be portrayed as extra-ordinary: exceptionally tragic, remarkably resilient, singularly radical. This essay expands Trouillot's arguments and extends his critical stance to another trope of exceptionalism in Caribbean studies: that of political sovereignty. It examines how Caribbean...

... as quests for a more empowering citizenship and may be read as continuities of earlier traditions of resistance to the duress of colonial and postcolonial state sovereignty, inflicted on Quashees then but on dancehall artists now. Present embodied Jamaican cultural acts might in some ways, therefore...

... kind of politics may be emerging in the region, one that decouples the idea of freedom from the idea of national independence and territorial sovereignty. This new political possibility is rooted in what Beckett calls the politics of disjuncture, that is, in the political action that emerges from...

...) hypervisible in the North among a broader swath of the population. 55 In Brown’s insightful and generative account regarding the evacuation of homo politicus—defined as the “capacity for self-sovereignty and communion with the state and community”—“our [read, the West’s] capacity for moral reflection...

...: Sovereign Power and Bare Life and State of Exception are exem- plary philosophical and political treatises that attempt to explain the relationship between the logic of sovereignty, the political relation of exclusion, and the juridico-legal instantiation of the biopolitical paradigm of the camp...

... as the deployment of a range of surveillance assemblages. But even more than a feeling, Maroon insecurity might be said to describe an experience of precarity. This might be related, for instance, to various Maroon experiences of land insecurity and food insecurity and the creative practices that these necessitated...

... parameters of respectability in charity and temperance movements; among working-class women, they have painstakingly and evocatively recreated the political stakes of mobility, community, and food security in postemancipation contests and crises and have considered the gendered violence to which black...

..., www.wlrn.org/post/least-14-haitians-dead-after-boat-sinks-turks-and-caicos-shark-infested-waters . 13 For an excellent discussion of Haitian boat migration during this period, see Jeffrey S. Kahn, Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire (Chicago: University of Chicago Press...

...Rachel Goffe This essay was originally drafted for a twenty-year retrospective on Charles Carnegie’s Postnationalism Prefigured (2002). Reflecting on her own ethnographic research, the author takes up two of the book’s insights. The first unsettles national sovereignty as an essentializing horizon...

..., Rupert Gray illuminates concerns about sovereignty and surveillance in our present. Only a generous or conservative reckoning of political genealogy would place Rupert Gray alongside colonial subjects pondering the meaning of independence in the mid-twentieth century, such is the earlier period...

... customs and idioms, each with distinct lineages. Such a perspective actively counters the historical invisibility of Indigenous peoples and their cultures, which is frequently perpetuated to uphold postcolonial narratives of sovereignty. 19 It opens up a space to reconsider and potentially restore...

... as an activity designed to produce effects of rule.” It comprises “complexes of knowledge/power that give shape to projects of political sovereignty.” 9 Swinton’s journal, read alongside documents from the official archive of indentureship, reveals how colonial knowledge systems were leveraged to manage...

... of the author's intentions. Its genesis lies in a series of explorations into blackness, Jamaican nationalism, and notions of violence nonspecific to the Caribbean. 2 The text is also the platform for more recent musings on sovereignty, globalization, transnationalism, Caribbean studies, the construction...

... and political intervention. First published in 1972, over a decade into the revolution of African decolonization, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is concerned with the gap between the achievement of political sovereignty and the stalled project of economic and social transformation. The “phenomenon of neo...

.... On the other hand they play critical roles in the household-domestic and informal economies, as well as in the nonexport sectors such as small-scale food production and marketing. 56 We also need to reckon with the fact that if sovereignty can no longer be understood in traditional territorializing...