...Nadège T. Clitandre Examining Greg Beckett’s 2019 There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince , this critical essay explores the notion of radical hope in the midst of tragedy and crisis in Haiti. It attempts to reframe the idea of hope from the perspective of a Haitian...

...)—Trinidadian poet, publisher, activist, and founder of the institute—the essay explores how a politics of hope is articulated in relation to competing priorities of “foundation” and “movement.” It assesses the GPI’s radical potential as an archive designed to subvert its own authority, functioning...

... optimism that democracy is the means of producing radical change in the region and given antidemocratic sentiments among the people, expressed most powerfully in low value for the human in the Jamaican context. Using Meeks's premise that ethical questions are at the heart of radical change, the essay...

...Minkah Makalani One of the appeals of imagining a future alternative to the political present is the possibility of shedding modernity’s constitutive colonial assemblages and its conceit of the inevitability of human progress. Yet it remains something of a paradox that even at their most radical...

... mostly misses the emancipatory and at times radical aspects of James’s feminist thinking, which was developed most fully during his years in the United States (1938–52), the author allows that the omission appears to be not deliberate but an unintended consequence of Kamugisha’s faithful following...

..., “Where and When Is Crisis?,” this issue of Small Axe , 178–85. 6 Clitandre, “Notes on Radical Hope,” 197. 5 Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World (New York: Palgrave, 2003), 136. 4 Raoul Peck, quoted in Clyde Taylor, “Autopsy of Terror...

... of a new model against which expectations of what is possible have become recalibrated. Although the 2009 movement did not radically transform Guadeloupe, it created a new template of political possibility and stirred the hope, however uncertain, in an alternative non-sovereign future. (150–51) To fully...

... reluctant, on the whole, to do so). Or we could take the next step and acknowledge that the defense of otherness remains rooted in a “moral optimism about humankind,” an optimism that gives rise to a Kantian radical hope in a better future. This might seem like a curious stance, given Trouillot's critical...

... was one still very much imbued with a certain kind of radical anticolonial imagination, one still invested in the hopes of a Caribbean regionalism, in what the Caribbean was : through music, literature, and theater but also through cricket. It is there, at my UWI of the 1990s, that I would be introduced...

.... By focusing so closely on the practice of politics in the late forties and Estimé’s leadership, I hoped to explain the way this problematic opened the inherent vulnerabilities of political leadership. In fact, while the guiding theme is radicalism, the book revises several misconceptions...

...Mimi Sheller This essay reviews Aaron Kamugisha’s reading of the works of C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter in his 2019 book Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition . Kamugisha issues a resounding call to reenergize the radical Caribbean intellectual...

..., their presence.”53 Texaco takes this truism as its point of departure, scrutinizing the ways in which the expression of “hope” is also, necessarily, an affirmation of presence and a testimony to the suffering that underpins such presence— and subtends such hope. The radical representational...

... times: “She was the center of my life. I followed literature because of her.” 18 This is why I read James with Claudia Jones in 1948 to consider what James lost and could have gained by a closer collaboration between them, with Jones announcing questions for black radicalism that James could...

... to illuminate the context within which Primus danced and the conditions she hoped to enable through her performance. This idea, however, is not the only one that lends insight into Primus's work. The Pearl Primus of the 1940s sits at the nexus of the black radical tradition and Richard Rorty's reformist Left...

... representations of pessimisms that embraced life's absurd futility rather than its abject hopelessness. Reading the corpus of this Jamaican literary archive—twelve novels and one memoir—the author examines the heterogeneous nature of the decade's literary pessimisms, best characterized as a sensibility of radical...

...Millery Polyné This article examines the benefits and limitations of radicalism in Haiti during the post–US occupation period—1934–57. This critical and underexplored period, which Matthew J. Smith examines in his Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934–1957...

... to socialism,” and an atmosphere of hope—for equality and social justice—permeated working-class communities.1 With the government ideologically on their side, “people from the laboring poor were analyzing, making demands and being openly critical of the forces holding them back.”2 As political scientist...

... and enslaved people in the West Indies. Wedderburn hoped his ideas would be, as the title suggests, an axe to the root of private property in land, and he criticized English radicals’ attempts to enact reform at home and abolition in the West Indies as “only an attempt to heal, without extracting the core...

... as a harbinger of the radical methodological impulses of dread history. Drawing on the speeches and proceedings detailed in the anthology, while also surveying the broader moment of the “global 1968,” the essay explores some of the antagonisms that underpinned the congress to examine the broader antagonisms...

...Mimi Sheller Poised between violent repetitions of state power and hopes for poststate alternative futures, in our dual role as historical actors and historical narrators, what do we do with the past today, with which past(s) and for whom? This essay asks about the ethical/political stakes...