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The Problem of Liberal Empire Reconsidered
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 167–177.
Published: 01 November 2019
... that makes the deep connections between free trade and freeing slaves legible. The practical and theoretical coincidence of these nineteenth-century developments as well as Taylor’s reconstruction of a West Indian tradition of political economy provide a new way of conceptualizing colonial economic violence...
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Organizing Pessimism Redux
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of her current work in Caribbean political economy, particularly concerning figures of speculation that perpetuate the logic of the trade-plantation complex in contemporary financialized capitalism. The essay moves from the forms of economic violence generated by the link between debt and austerity...
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Rhizomes and the Space of Translation: On Edouard Glissant's Spiral Retelling
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 100–112.
Published: 01 November 2013
... etymological meaning, “to carry across.” The first section maps the movement of one concept, the rhizome, as it travels between and beyond the work of Glissant and that of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The rhizome's travels reveal an uneven political economy of scholarly influence. The second section...
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Diasporic Disciplining of Caliban? Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Intra-Caribbean Politics
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 149–159.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Jana Evans Braziel In her contribution, Braziel resists Torres-Saillant's valorization of diaspora as the anti-dote to national paradigms. As an organizing rubric, “Caribbean diaspora” obscures nationality, class, race, gender, sexuality, and political economy as striating diasporas and diasporic...
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One and Divisible: Meditations on Global Blackness
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 4–25.
Published: 01 July 2009
..., the history, and the existential context in which it occurs. It asks about the wisdom of promoting ideas about global blackness that do not at the same time examine the political economy that explains the globalizing of blackness nor the deleterious legacy of Western discourse that construed people of African...
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Bigger than the Sound: The Jamaican Chinese Infrastructures of Reggae
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 97–127.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Tao Leigh Goffe; Deborah A. Thomas This essay examines the political economy of Caribbean cultural capital and the formation of reggae in Jamaica in the 1950s. Through study of the Afro-Asian intimacies and tensions embedded in the sound of preindependence Jamaica, the essay traces the birth...
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On Bankers and Empire : Racial Capitalism, Antiblackness, and Antiradicalism
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2020
... illuminates the latter’s inextricable link to antiradicalism, defined as the disciplining of communists, socialists, and other radicals whose ideas, politics, or practices are deemed subversive of or threatening to the perpetuation of the capitalist world-economy. Hudson Peter James , Bankers...
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History, Method, and Myth: Walter Rodney and the Geographies of Black Radicalism
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 95–116.
Published: 01 November 2023
... as that methodology draws on the intellectual and political traditions of Pan-Africanism and Marxism. [email protected] © Small Axe, Inc. 2023 Walter Rodney Los Angeles political economy methodology Pan-Africanism My encounters and engagements with Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped...
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Seeing the World through a Puerto Rican Lens: Decolonial Critique in Boricua Beats
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 201–218.
Published: 01 July 2024
... consistently grounded in Puerto Rican history, politics, and critique. The author pursues an analytics of debt as a pillar of capitalist modernity through the lens of Marxist political-economy, decolonial critique, feminist and queer analysis, and politics by means of a rigorous and creative dialogue...
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Provision Grounds Against the Plantation: Robert Wedderburn’s Axe Laid to the Root
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 15–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
... grounds as a land commons that produce food sovereignty and communal identity. Then he represents the Jamaican Maroons’ local ecological knowledge as a source of resistance to plantation economies. Using Sylvia Wynter’s environmental theories of resistance, this essay argues that Wedderburn’s political...
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Rogue Bankers, Black Radicalism, and the Caribbean History of Racial Capitalism
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 197–207.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., and exacerbated by and through the registers of international political economy. 16 Plummer, more than most, is well aware of the nature of elite identification and self-fashioning in the Caribbean, especially when it comes to the disdain for and exploitation of the dark masses. She notes in her response...
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On the History and Historiography of Banking in the Caribbean
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 22–37.
Published: 01 March 2014
... associated, and it occasionally slips beyond the discipline of history entirely, emerging in anthropology, sociology, geography, economics, and political economy. Banks and banking surface only anecdotally in most historical surveys of the Caribbean while those few monographs evoking the history of banking...
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From Louverture to Lenin: Aimé Césaire and Anticolonial Marxism
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 129–145.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., from Jacques Roumain and Jacques Stephen Alexis to René Ménil and C. L. R. James—in terms of a Marxist critique of the political economy of colonialism. The forms of this militancy ranged (often in the case a single individual such as Césaire or James) from explicit affiliation with self-designated...
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Contributors
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 205–208.
Published: 01 March 2022
... is professor of feminist political economy in the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Her research interests include the transforming nature of work within racial capitalist regimes, the financialization of remittance economies, and the place of diaspora...
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Mine the Ruins
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 178–184.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the terminus of empire’s intention to care for emancipated subjects in worthless colonies” (4, 81). Taylor outlines British political economy’s vision of a future where Britain would be free of its troublesome and expensive obligation to the colonies and make an unimpeded turn to the free market; yet...
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Michel-Rolph Trouillot: A Comprehensive Bibliography
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 213–222.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., Jean-Germain. “Haiti: The Political Economy and Sociology of Decay and Renewal.” Review of Haiti in the New World Order , by Alex Dupuy; Haitian Frustrations, Dilemmas for US Policy , edited by Georges Fauriol; Building Peace in Haiti , by Chetan Kumar; Haiti: Dangerous Crossroads , edited by NACLA...
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Transnational Migration, the State, and Development: Reflecting on the “Diaspora Option”
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 154–171.
Published: 01 July 2013
... entrepreneurs and skilled personnel to invest their capital, knowledge, and skills in the Caribbean was vigorously contested throughout the 1960s and 1970s by a new generation of scholars using radical political economy frameworks. 17 These intellectuals, many of whom became leading members of the New World...
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From New World to Abeng : George Beckford and the Horn of Black Power in Jamaica, 1968-1970
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 1–15.
Published: 01 October 2007
... Beckford and Michael Witter, Small Garden—Bitter Weed: The Political Economy of Struggle and Change
in Jamaica (Morant Bay, Jamaica: Maroon Publishing House, 1980), 75, 78. A second, expanded edition was
published in 1982 by Zed Press in London.
3. Ibid., 98.
4. Ibid...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2002
... been richly documented by many of the region’s twentieth-century intellectuals
Small Axe 11, March 2002: pp. v–vii
ISSN 0799-0537
(from C. L. R. James’s e Black Jacobins to the New World Group’s intellectual labor on
plantation political economy to the writings of many...
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Crosses/Crossroads/Crossings
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 130–138.
Published: 01 October 2007
... guard the boundaries of modernity, and ultimately I
urge queer studies and queer movements to take up questions of colonialism, racial formation, and
political economy simultaneously.
—M. Jacqui Alexander, Pedagogies of Crossing
It has been over a decade now since...
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