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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 138–151.
Published: 01 November 2017
... aims to demonstrate how differences often viewed as inert, unchangeable facts of nature are in actuality constituted, reconfigured, and recoded over time: in this instance through discursive and symbolic spatial and place-making practices. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 place making elites social...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of the women who shared their caldosa with me were anticipatory: working toward and for other futures. The place-making practices of these Black lesbian activists tell a deeply local and particular story about the economic and social vulnerability that racialized and sexualized bodies experience in Havana...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 88–107.
Published: 01 July 2013
... the extranational management of postcolonial governance and discursive place-making in the social imaginary. As both a municipal court of last resort and an international court with compulsory and exclusive jurisdiction (appellate and original jurisdiction), the CCJ is said to exercise authority similar...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 179–187.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., Inc. 2017 water sea race jíbaro nationalism Vanessa Pérez-Rosario's Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon is an invitation to reconceptualize Julia de Burgos's place within the Caribbean and its diasporic communities. As the first book-length study in English...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 33–44.
Published: 01 November 2010
... be called “creole”? Although Japan is an eccentric case and in many respects displaced in the unstable network of creole studies, that does not make it less revealing of new issues of thought that are being constituted around the figure of the creole at the very places where they were not expected. Small...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 57–69.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Rocío Aranda-Alvarado This essay explores the photographic and film work of New York–born artist Rachelle Mozman (of Panamanian heritage) and the paintings and drawings of Dominican-born artist Firelei Báez. Both artists make use of the form, the image, the representation, and the reading...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 99–109.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Ana Belén Martín Sevillano This essay offers an account of Clara Morera's artistic course, considering the context and quality of her artwork. Morera has been one of the first female Cuban visual artists to formulate a gendered discourse in the plastic arts by making use of the symbolic...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 168–178.
Published: 01 July 2010
... and stories that [Goodison] would come to write” (59). Yet, in
this memoir the human experience of “making-place” is privileged over the territorial concep-
tion of space as national space, the grand narrative of conquest and settlement, master and
slave, rebellion and political...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 176–179.
Published: 01 March 2024
... is concerned with place-making and livelihood and how these are negotiated with, through, and against postcolonial state formation. She investigates transformations of the state by researching the mobility of the boundary around “formal” relationships to space. She is an assistant professor in the Department...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 76–82.
Published: 01 March 2024
... disobedient, anticolonial logics. Belonging to place. Stewardship of the land. Birthright. Generational birthright. Exploitation and premature death on this parcel of land. Belonging to nation. Aesthetics of place-making. Refusing the scarcity that results from property. Continuous possession. None...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of dispossession (captivity, loss of homeland, displacement, criminality, incarceration). These images fundamentally prevent an engagement with black place making and belonging that does not lock them into positions either as tragic colonized subjects embattled in perpetual ontological struggles of/for the Human...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 59–68.
Published: 01 March 2024
... as one ground from which to retheorize questions of belonging. 32 Both Carnegie and Goffe locate concerns with place-making and livelihood as central to theorizations of Black life. In an attentive way they ask us to rethink state narratives—or rather the state as narrative frame—by attending...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 16–33.
Published: 01 October 2007
... with policy decisions) are respatializing Caribbean
territories. Paying attention to mobilities and place-making—both transportational and
47. See Gina Ulysse, Uptown Ladies, Downtown Women (Chicago: University of Chiago Press, forthcoming).
48. The participants...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 15–31.
Published: 01 November 2023
... in Caribbean Nicaragua. Both a social and aesthetic undertaking, Kain’s home- and place-making was not traditional in any sense but was instead an extension of her lifelong artistic sensibilities. Recognizing her unique creative gifts, Kain’s family and friends urged her to try her hand at painting. So in 1986...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 62–79.
Published: 01 November 2011
... liked girls, it was all right to make a living
this way. As long as you were doing it for the money” (180). This conclusion references the
widespread homophobia that surrounds him. Chancy takes on the stigma of AIDS as a Haitian
disease, but what rises in its place makes homosexuality invisible...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 59–77.
Published: 01 July 2011
... on the Canadian side of the border
are deliberately chosen to attract a Caribbean clientele, with passengers picked up at places
that reflect where Caribbean populations reside. While Greyhound buses do make stops
at the Scarborough Town Centre and in Mississauga, additional locations...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 90–104.
Published: 01 November 2018
... connections, the specificities of place (historically, culturally, and physically) are worth noting. 16 For example, specific economic practices and structures have relevance when analyzing broader contemporary policy place/decision making. How do the structure and requirements of the IMF, for example...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2017
... establishes a dialogic narrative in which McGilchrist explores contemporaneous ways of being. She is simultaneously this and that—surrendering to the numerous prescriptions given by the other in society. Each interaction in the video creates its own place of recognition, and it is through her art making...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 145–149.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Jennifer Rahim Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Waiting for Mel
Jennifer Rahim
Mel, San Souci is a lonely place since you take up and gone away. Plenty things make a woman
walk to the edge of her living and sit down wondering if it make sense to build the bridge to
the other side...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 80–96.
Published: 01 June 2006
... the Caribbean-as-paradise produced by tourists as they make it their own. Indeed, in another issue, the magazine promised Peter Island, Turks and Caicos, and Petit St. Vincent in the grenadines as especially befitting such designs.36 This advertisement represents place promotion the conscious use of publicity...
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