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...Bill Schwarz Small Axe Incorporated 2003 C. L. R. James and George Lamming: The Measure of Historical Time Bill Schwarz I believe deep in my bones that the mad impulse which drove Powell to his criminal defeat was largely my doing. I will not have this explained away by talk...

... that is “no longer a cephalic index, or plasma, or soma, but measured by the compass of suffering.” 28 Negritude, as Vergés remarks of Césaire, “returns to the profound inequality that structures European discourse at the same time it proclaims its universality; [Césaire] interrogates the fundamental violence...

... complexion, thus creating “degrees of whiteness.” One's “measure of whiteness,” therefore, is not defined only by skin color, but requires a much wider economy of signs where, together with other bodily features, hair texture is almost as important as epidermal tone. In any given context, the definition...

... realities of economic markets and measures and caught between national and international belongings. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 federation West Indian literature Caribbean regionalism belonging aesthetic In as much as the late nineteenth-century Antillean Confederation...

..., then climate adaptation is a measure of how people recognize the political failures and the potentials of technology over time. The essay suggests that attention to Girvan’s writings is central to critical Caribbean scholarship on climate change for two reasons: his writings reflect the forms...

... their small, semi-private shrines called kutiyas—translated from the Hindi root kutis—which are small shrines tended by religious mendicants. These shrines were typically made for private worship and meditation, and were informed by prayer, and the body’s motion in space (scientific measures...

... of moderation, although his is a poetry of true measure, but a measure measuring something unmeasured: the world. Césaire is one who brings the beauties of his heritage into accord with the beauties of his becoming in the world. But he has forgotten neither the plantation (he was born there) nor the slave...

...-government was part of the reform strategy implemented by the British government in response to labor unrest in the colony in 1948. Th e Colonial Offi ce recognized that the changes in British Guiana were far-reaching and that the pace of future reform would be measured by the progress...

... and the strict adherence to market fundamentals became the response of the architects of the Washington Consensus to the economic crises of the 1970s. Cast as evidence of the island’s collective failure to overcome the problem of degraded surplus labor, the use of punitive economic measures easily became...

..., dependency, and social impoverishment. The challenge, however, is that vulnerability is often reduced to statistical measures of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity, thus ignoring wider societal and historically contingent factors. In the case of the regional agriculture sector, for instance...

... Casas, on the other hand, drew on concepts of natural law to conclude that all persons—especially those who were not heretics—were capable of embodying Christian virtue and Christianity. Christianity, and its successful embodiment, became the measures of universal personhood. Once a universal Christian...

... their control over labor: the Gaols Act, hurriedly passed by the Assembly in June 1834, could plausibly be promoted as a measure of enlightened reform. But in giving local magistrates, like their counterparts in England, the authority to make prison regulations, it also ensured that former slaveowners had...

... lines that divide sexes and races—an expectation that leads to the conclusion that because McDonald cannot be etherealized by Schmitz and his friend, she must be brutalized. “Slavery,” Saidiya Hartman writes, “established a measure of man and a ranking of life that has yet to be undone.” 12...

... for political leadership” and the role I assign to “the diaspora as a utopian antidote, or corrective measure, to homeland politics.” She proceeds “bemusedly and musingly” to ask: “Which Diaspora? Which homeland? Whose Caliban? And whence Sycorax?” Her referring to “the important political...

...), in addition to initiating an independent dialogue with traditional African philosophy. He also speaks of Afro-Caribbean philosophy’s need to “develop its own ethno-philosophy so it can engage critically the thought of Vodoui- sants, Rastafarians, and Afro-Christians” (p. 67). < ese measures, he rightly...

... referred to as “biopolitical” or “immaterial” production. 54 One effect of this diffusion is that the value of labor becomes immeasurable. As Hardt and Negri put it, “In Empire, the construction of value takes place beyond measure .” 55 More simply: when social time becomes labor time, when “life...

... Trouillot would find it hard to deny that when you talk to them, popular grassroots leaders such as Father Gérard Jean-Juste or Jean-Marie Samedy or So Ann do seem to say that they continue to sup- port Aristide and Lavalas—as do, according to every study that has tried to measure...

... to be “sacred” and “spiritual” in somewhat the same sense: triangles and circles or π as objects in our world. These are higher order invariants that areformless but enable us precisely to calculate a field or the distance to the moon; timeless but enable the measure of our days.1 The common term...

... of a fit of an absence of mind. It was, rather, an overdetermined, structured, and instituted reality, one enabled and enacted via the liberalization measures that the British Empire undertook through the mid-nineteenth century. Yet in order to see how this instituted reality amounted to something more...

... calls from Toronto. . . . She has seen another of my graphic works on my blog site. In this work, I am speculating about “fear” as a new political commodity. People in Trinidad are supposed to be living in fear so we need a new government or new security measures to save us. They also say we need...