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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 16–33.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Mimi Sheller Many parts of the Caribbean region are being respatialized, rescaled and reterritorialized through processes of neoliberal development, intraregional and international mobility, and complex spatial restructuring of physical infrastructures and virtual realities. Drawing...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 50–65.
Published: 01 November 2023
... in the conjunction of past, present, and future through the registers of diagnostician and participant in political mobilization. The author argues that Rodney’s analogy of the historian as medical doctor generates a critique of romantic depictions of the African past and draws on the language of Marxism to track...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 105–114.
Published: 01 November 2018
... practices that shaped the texture of freedom. An engagement with travel narratives, specifically attentive to reading against the grain of elite mobilities, is proposed as a means through which to reveal the everyday negotiation of livelihoods. Offering the market as a case study, the essay argues...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 34–56.
Published: 01 July 2019
... in a file labeled “Freak Letters,” it considers the difficulties of recovering historical subjects structured by imperial frameworks of productivity and perversity, tracing instead the counternarratives of mobility, affect, and self-determination that might have shaped this black woman’s life. Using...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 99–114.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Ana-Maurine Lara Drawing on the strategies employed by LGBT activists in the Dominican Republic, this essay seeks to theorize how strategic universalisms are mobilized as a form of agentive sociopolitical action. Delineating how universalization has historically been a tool of Catholic coloniality...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 85–92.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in Suriname and in the Netherlands used for themselves in different periods? What have Whites called African descendant people in Suriname and in the Netherlands in different periods? When does Black come to the fore? Who mobilizes the term and for what purposes? This exercise brings forward important...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., the essay illuminates the racialized and caste-based knowledge systems that were mobilized to “make live” the reserve of potential labor force aboard. Concomitantly, it reads the colonial archive for moments in which indentured servants register their presence through their responses to being or refusal...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 52–58.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., such as in Cuba; to their current mobilization by numerous young people of Surinamese descent in the Netherlands as part of an antiracist activism and politics of belonging. Almost ninety years after Wij slaven was first published, it has become a bestseller and De Kom has been named to the Dutch national...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 20–38.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and slow violence, questioning the mobilization of the assemblage as a straightforward and positive compositional attribute and bringing together environmental justice and environmental humanities scholarship with an eye to a livable present. [email protected] © Small Axe, Inc. 2024...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 83–86.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and Marxist-Communist mobilization, lived lives shrouded by secrecy, doubly cautious of the colonial state apparatus as they were of the anti-Communist sentiments that circulated at the beginning of the twentieth century, and even today. Taking secrecy in the archives seriously, then, may enable better...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 161–174.
Published: 01 July 2018
... in combination with the authors’ memories of dialogue and mentorship by the recently departed elder. By highlighting “the anecdotal” as a central dimension to how De Moya sought to mobilize and disrupt the positivist scientific paradigms in which he was trained, the two scholars suggest that De Moya’s work...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 81–89.
Published: 01 November 2018
... their own lives and those of their loved ones by mobilizing embodied and discursive performances of citizenship. The analysis of this case draws from the records of the West Kingston Commission of Inquiry 2014–2016. Copyright © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2018 security authority citizenship performance...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 90–104.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Susan P. Mains The Caribbean has figured prominently in narratives of security, mobility, and transnational connections. Referred to as the “Third Border” in US foreign policies, and inhabiting contradictory geopolitical spaces between North and South America, the region also negotiates narratives...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of African origins provided interwar black artists such as Dunham with a tantalizing possibility of Pan-African solidarity through which they could mobilize their desire for connection with an obscured past and an imagined community in the present. When Dunham found her 1930s fieldwork inevitably run aground...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 81–96.
Published: 01 November 2020
.... With information from Jamaican state records, news media, literature, and social science studies, the essay argues that the inquiry mobilized divergent discourses of homosexuality across the Atlantic to enact an anticolonial nationalist form of sexual regulation. The inquiry drew not only from Jamaican figurations...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 143–163.
Published: 01 November 2020
... the ways the black male body was mobilized in the development of Jamaican art and visual culture. That Lindo does not represent the dominant white male heterosexual gaze is something that I considered only after reading Kobena Mercer’s surprisingly sympathetic analysis of Robert Mapplethorpe’s homoerotic...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 263–280.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., used photography to mobilize racial feeling and to assert a vision of black modernity. The essay then considers the collaboration between Harlem studio photographer James VanDerZee and Garvey, who, through the UNIA, hired VanDerZee to document the organization's activities in the summer of 1924. More...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 30–45.
Published: 01 March 2010
...', are mobilized to market a variety of products and services, ranging from restaurants and hairstyles to candles, clothing and cosmetics. This reflects a move towards localism, environmentalism and ethics that is tied, somewhat paradoxically, to globalized identities, consumption and elite lifestyles. An initial...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 22–38.
Published: 01 November 2011
... denied social (i.e., class) mobility, can speak a consciousness freed from marginalization that remains, to varying degrees, part of the community of origin (an ethnic or “racial” group), even as the border crossings they effect provide them with purchase within the economy of a society that largely...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 89–99.
Published: 01 November 2013
... problems taken up in Eloge into a thoroughly creolized novel that deals with the hybridized messiness of everyday life, Confiant presents a text that ethnographically allegorizes its own conditions of production. This allegorization mobilizes a process the essay calls “interdisciplinary translation,” which...
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