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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 76–82.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... postcolonial state formation Black geographies transdisciplinarity informal tenure postnationalism Charles Carnegie © Small Axe, Inc. 2024 [email protected] Through these speculators, itinerancy becomes place. Through ethnography of these women (and they are mostly women), we learn...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 133–146.
Published: 01 July 2020
... on the side of informality, neighboring Dominica provided an example (that went unheeded) of how to legally execute shared-land tenure. The Dominican branch of the Kalinago (Carib) nation has since 1903 administered and used communally a thirty-seven-hundred-acre plot of land allotted to them by the colonial...
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Barrack Yard Politics: From C. L. R. James’s The Case for West-Indian Self Government to Minty Alley
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 13–27.
Published: 01 November 2018
... , a political biography that contained passages from what would be published as Case the following year. The subject of Life is Captain Arthur Andrew Cipriani, who—during his long tenure as a member of the Port of Spain City Council, mayor of Port of Spain, and labor organizer—was an advocate...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 58–75.
Published: 01 July 2016
... publishing was heralded as a system that would allow for the free movement of knowledge through a number of different networks based on an individual's interests rather than their location. Access to elite networks of people and information was the basis for the creation of Facebook; the website...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 144–152.
Published: 01 November 2022
... moments through truncated temporal framing allows Purcell to disavow and ignore the Grenadian masses’ participation in the coup of Eric Gairy and the People’s Revolutionary Government’s (PRG) policies during its four-year tenure, many of which greatly improved the lives of Grenadians. This truncated...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 134–146.
Published: 01 November 2021
... more. While there is certainly significant work on ancestrality and spirits in the field of Black Atlantic religions, my interest in multiple manifestations of Garifuna ancestrality is centered on how these spiritual and cultural expressions inform the politics of self-making, of forging political...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 93–104.
Published: 01 February 2008
... during this period. At work, Drayton and Carr joined politically
on a number of issues, not just the protests surrounding the events in Jamaica. They also cham-
pioned the cause of tenure at the University of Guyana, a status that had not yet been granted
to any faculty member. Yet...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 72–94.
Published: 01 March 2003
... been
informed by the stunning recognition of several apparently unyielding realities in the
current crisis.
+ e fi rst shock of recognition is that the incumbents of Jamaican political power—
the governing black middle class—have hardly relied on innovative economic policies
1. I...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 130–138.
Published: 01 October 2007
... the kind of fem
inist collaborations that have been significant scholarly interventions, and that have also been
discounted for the almighty “tenure and promotion” because they are not single monographs.4
As collaborative editorial ventures that crossed United States ethnic boundaries and actively...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 61–83.
Published: 01 March 2021
... included serving in its apparatuses of repression; some served as informants, for example. 13 Middle-class and wealthy women insinuated their influence into electoral politics, meeting uneven acceptance and ostracism similar to their counterparts in many other nations. Working-class women’s political...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 72–79.
Published: 01 July 2014
... scholarship. 17 Drexel G Woodson, “Tout mounn se mounn, men tout mounn pa menm: Microlevel Sociocultural Aspects of Land Tenure in a Northern Haitian Locality” (PhD diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1990); Rémy Bastien, Le paysan haïtien et sa famille: Vallée ee Marbial (Paris: Kharthala, 1985). 18...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 67–77.
Published: 01 July 2020
...), xvi. 21 Ibid., 81. 20 Audre Lorde, “Of Generators and Survival,” 75. 19 Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard theorizes practices of this order as a “barrack yard politics” that “depends not on the modern, bourgeois political actor” but on an “informal political economy” that refuses colonial...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 155–163.
Published: 01 November 2011
...” (104).
With members of the black intelligentsia filling virtually every cabinet post in his govern-
ment, and with his deep understanding of the struggles of the country’s long-disenfranchised
peasant majority, Estimé provided a brief tenure that in retrospect represents a far...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 59–68.
Published: 01 March 2024
... their organizing and orienting frames. In his work, he uses narratives to tease out the desires and dreams, the “yearnings” that shape moments of movement. In this regard his work can be read in meaningful dialogue with Rachel Goffe’s thinking about personal narrative, family land, and informal economies of tenure...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 193–202.
Published: 01 November 2013
... meditation Dialectic of Enlightenment : every reification is a forgetting, even, and perhaps especially so, when it comes to inform a socially regulated politics of common sense; the kind of routine normalcy based on the systematic—and subsequently systematically necessary—silencing of its own contingent...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 14–30.
Published: 01 November 2022
... for an analytical framework that is transnational in its framing, lines of inquiry that are grounded in historically informed interdisciplinarity, and analyses of the ways power interacts with memory and historicity in hegemonic discourses. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 1–28.
Published: 01 November 2015
... January 1942 (BBC WAC E2/584). 55 Other complaints reported by information officers in the West Indies around this time moved beyond inter-island rivalry to focus on the competing interests of the United Kingdom and United States in terms of the race for the West Indian air waves. The view from...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 162–173.
Published: 01 March 2023
... into a historical narrative cannot deliver the past in a manner that would be seamless, much less exhaustive.” 35 Johnson’s orchestrated archival meetings inform the fragmented nature of my own reflections here, my reimagining of the encounter between Césaire and Chauvet and of the disorderly, destroyed...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 161–174.
Published: 01 July 2018
...: Editorial Collado, 2000). 31 Vargas coins the felicitous term archisme (gossip archive) to draw attention to the role that fuzzy memories and innuendo play in constituting embodied archives that do not live in library repositories. Archisme , a term inflected and informed by idiosyncratic...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 38–54.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Stuart Hall has characterized as a moment of “global dispersal.” © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 I am delighted to have the opportunity afforded by this Small Axe special section and its editors to think about Caribbean historiography, or, in my case, about how the study of the Caribbean has informed my...
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