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...David Scott © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 Insofar as it is a project and not merely a random venture, however professionally and personally rewarding and expertly executed, journal work is characterized by the activation and embodiment of an ethos . The essence of this ethos, I believe...

... focusing on the African continent and its diaspora, the essay makes reference to the historical antecedents of cultural journals, both online and offline, including Transition , Kwani! , and Chimurenga Chronic , and debates some of the challenges facing online publishing, such as editorial control...

...Patricia Joan Saunders Beyond the traditional work that journals and editors are responsible for, the editors of Small Axe and Anthurium have also undertaken institution building through knowledge production. This might well be the kind of development of communications networks that Hardt and Negri...

...Ashwani Sharma By reflecting on running the open-access online “race” journal darkmatter , the author examines the crisis of academic journal publishing. This crisis is manifested by the transformations in the economics of journal production, especially with the rise of open-access publishing...

...Kuan-Hsing Chen Journals have played a central role in the formation of intellectual communities throughout Asia since modern times. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies : Movements , launched in 2000, is no exception, except that it has attempted to connect with local intellectual circles and to build...

...Lowell Fiet Work on Sargasso as an independent journal of Caribbean literature, language, and culture began at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in 1983. After a successful, but not uncomplicated, launching of its first issue in 1984, the journal received support and contributions from important...

...Kelly Baker Josephs Part of a special section titled “What Is Journal Work?,” this reflective essay discusses the ethical questions of editing sx salon: a small axe literary platform . The author's goal in the essay is twofold: to make transparent the work of journal work, the hours of labor...

... of the publications from this period associated with the Manley family, the newspaper Public Opinion and the literary journal Focus , speaks to the alliance but also the cleavages between the political and the literary. It looks at Public Opinion 's publication history from its founding in 1937 through...

... to that confluence, it had to be broad based and rooted in the stridency of demand and the humility of exchange. TBS relaunched in 2012, and its new editor, Louis Chude-Sokei, saw his challenges as, first, making sure the journal did not die, and second, alerting scholars—particularly of his generation and younger...

... Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Contributors Mike Alleyne is an associate professor in the Department of Recording Industry at Middle Tennessee State University. His articles have been published in journals such as Bucknell Review, Small Axe, Popular Music & Society, Social...

... work has been published in several journals, including Critical Ethnic Studies, Contemporary Political Theory, and the CLR James Journal. She is a coeditor (with Anthony Bogues) of the Black Critique book series at Pluto Press and is currently working on a book manuscript, The Interminable Catas...

..., and an unavoidable loss of human life.” The “pamphlet or tract” under discussion in this 1859 article in the Colonial Standard and Jamaica Despatch is a sixteen-page extract from a journal kept by Captain Edolphus Swinton on board the British ship Salsette. 1 In March 1858 the Salsette sailed from...

... in Cuba (2011) and editor of “Black/Queer/Diaspora,” a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies . He is currently completing a new book, “Black/Queer Here and There: Ethnography of an Idea.” E wan A tkinson , born in Barbados in 1975, received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art...

... are made by walking —Antonio Machado In many respects this is our motto, our cri de guerre, you might say, our standard. From its formal inception as a journal project in March 1997, Small Axe has always been— and self-consciously so—a work-in-progress, an ongoing...

... of empire (and perhaps self-conscious also of the difference between his own generational moment and that of earlier, interwar journal projects such as Légitime Défense and L’Etudiant Noir), sought to make an intervention in the name of the absent presence of an as yet unex‑ amined...

...), coauthor of Jamaican Art (1990), and editor of Fifty Years—Fifty Artists (2000). Her new exhibition and publication titled Rasta! is forthcoming. Tanya Batson-Savage is an MPhil candidate at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Her career has spanned the gamut of teaching, journalism...

... on African women writers as well as an issue of the Massachusetts Review devoted to contemporary Caribbean culture and art. Her own essays have appeared in such journals as Transition, Callaloo, and Small Axe. She is currently completing a manuscript titled “Epitaphs for the Self: A Comparative Reading...

...: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Art Nexus, and Review, the journal of the Americas Society. john beadle, a son of Jamaican and Bahamian parentage, lives and works in the Baha- mas, on the island of New Providence. He obtained a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, studied...

... in Caribbean Literature in Transition , volume 3, and in the journals Callaloo , Comma , Small Axe , and Anthurium , among others. She serves as special projects editor at Caribbean InTransit . L orna G oodison is a major figure in world literature. She was Poet Laureate of Jamaica (2017–20...