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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 1–17.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Kate Perillo This essay situates Nalo Hopkinson’s science fiction novel Midnight Robber within an understudied tradition of critical and creative thought that theorizes technological futurity in distinctly Caribbean terms. Although not typically read as “science fiction,” Édouard Glissant’s...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 111–119.
Published: 01 March 2020
... that emphasized the history, experience, and culture of African descended peoples and communities. Employing Valdés’s Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg , this essay explores the politics of Afro-diasporic collection, archive, visibility, and futurity. Valdés Vanessa K...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 94–103.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Sandra Ruiz This essay traces José Esteban Muñoz's critical contributions to Caribbean studies. By paying particular attention to his commitment to futurity, Ruiz suggests that the hispanophone Caribe's “all-overness,” its subjectivity on the move, is at the heart of Muñoz's critical vision...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 19–26.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Saidiya Hartman; Tina Campt Small Axe Incorporated 2009 A Future Beyond Empire:
An Introduction
Saidiya Hartman and Tina Campt
The hands are clasped in a moment of repose. Labor is at a standstill. In this fixed instant, we
experience the sturdiness of these hands as implements...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 84–92.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Alex Burke Small Axe, Inc. 2009 Remembering to
Reinvent One’s Future
Alex Burke
At the end of the 1960s, I was doing representational painting in black and white; I had
eliminated color out of an effort for more simplicity.
At the beginning of the 1970s...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 173–178.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Claudette Anderson Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Caliban’s Reason and the Future of
Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
Claudette Anderson
aget Henry, in his book Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy,
has done an excellent job of excavating what he terms the “implicit...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 169–170.
Published: 01 July 2021
... tradition, saving us from our own alienation, colonization, and ambivalence. This essay takes inspiration from Beyond Coloniality to respond to the climate-political-social-cultural crisis in the Caribbean and to think through the possibilities for futurity in relation to reparative justice and ecological...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 187–200.
Published: 01 July 2023
... Andil Gosine, Cutlass , 2012. 18k white gold, 3.5″. Courtesy of the artist Figure 3. Andil Gosine, Cutlass, 2012. 18k white gold, 3.5″. Courtesy of the artist Figure 4 Angie Quick, with Andil Gosine, an excerpt of the All that future, all that fortune , 2022. Watercolor on paper, approx. 9...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 1–15.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of decolonial practices, black life, and black futures are embedded in place. 45 Wynter, “Rethinking ‘Aesthetics,’” 271 (emphasis in original). 44 Leslie Sanders, “What the Poet Does for Us” (keynote lecture at “No Language Is Neutral: A Conference on Dionne Brand,” Toronto, Ontario, 14 October 2006...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 96–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
... intervention in theories of nationalism produced by the past projects of federation and the possible futures they give rise to. 2 Glyne Griffith, “ Caribbean Voices and the Communicative Failure of the West Indies Federation,” this issue of Small Axe , 87–95. 3 Benedict Anderson, Imagined...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 187–198.
Published: 01 July 2016
..., and the possible directions for Caribbean politics in the near future. While largely sympathetic to many of their comments, Meeks engages with Gray specifically around what Meeks considers Gray's minimalizing of the distinctions between radical activists of the 1970s and contemporary “Dons,” the role of Cuba...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2012
...David Scott © 2012 by Small Axe, Inc. 2012 The Futures of Michel-Rolph
Trouillot: In Memoriam
David Scott
Gatekeeping has never been successful in the Caribbean.
—Michel-Rolph Trouillot
When in the mid-1970s Richard Price and Sidney Mintz left Yale University and set about...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of Jamaican Music (London: BBC, 2002), 75. 8 Scott, Refashioning Futures , 219. 7 See Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004). 6 I acknowledge here that first-generation reggae had many international influences, as does...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 147–162.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Yarimar Bonilla This essay discusses how Puerto Ricans are imagining and building new futures out of a political context of material and affective ruin that is not guided by the promise of a modernist future or the palliative anticipation of a sovereignty to come. It examines how the politics...
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Published: 01 July 2023
Figure 4 Angie Quick, with Andil Gosine, an excerpt of the All that future, all that fortune , 2022. Watercolor on paper, approx. 9″ × 12″. Courtesy of the artist
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 18–34.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Minkah Makalani One of the appeals of imagining a future alternative to the political present is the possibility of shedding modernity’s constitutive colonial assemblages and its conceit of the inevitability of human progress. Yet it remains something of a paradox that even at their most radical...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 72–84.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of governance, and frame women’s political participation around rigid expectations of maternal behavior and sexual propriety. Copyright © 2018 by Small Axe, Inc. 2018 futurity political imagination Fanonian leap undecidability decolonial turn In November 1960 three young women traveling home...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 178–185.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., as the routinized anticipation of rupture. Despite a rich tradition of Caribbean scholarship on temporalities, there has been limited engagement with the region’s urban time-spaces. The author suggests that a more thorough consideration of Caribbean urban futures in particular might allow us to read an anticipatory...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 50–65.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Adom Getachew Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) was written from the perspective that the history of Africa is necessary to understand the continent’s present and to envision its transformation in the future. This essay tracks Rodney’s positioning of the historian...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 169–177.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Mimi Sheller Poised between violent repetitions of state power and hopes for poststate alternative futures, in our dual role as historical actors and historical narrators, what do we do with the past today, with which past(s) and for whom? This essay asks about the ethical/political stakes...
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