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...Anthony Harriott; Rivke Jaffe In this brief essay, the authors analyze encounters between Tivoli Gardens residents and members of the Jamaican police and military during the West Kingston security operation of May 2010 (the so-called Tivoli Incursion), understanding these (often violent...

...Anyaa Anim-Addo This essay examines in/securities through a central focus on strategies for securing livelihoods after emancipation. While the postemancipation period in the Caribbean was marked by clamorous debate about the region’s economic future, this essay is concerned with the quieter...

...David Featherstone This essay contributes to work on the contested racialized articulations of conjunctures by engaging with the spatial practices through which racialized in/securities became politicized in the period after the First World War. It explores the forms of opposition to riots against...

...Ronald Cummings This essay uses the concept of “Maroon in/securities” to refer to a number of creative practices of survival and a range of experiences and feelings that converge in the Maroon narrative. These two terms, when brought together, productively facilitate a dialogue between Maroon...

...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...

...Patricia Noxolo This essay serves as an introduction to a special section of Small Axe on Caribbean in/securities. It begins by offering a threefold insight into the concept of “in/securities”: securities and insecurities are produced as spatially localized and historically contingent...

...Deborah A. Thomas In Rex Nettleford's Mirror Mirror: Identity, Race, and Protest in Jamaica , Rastafari appears as an expression of black knowledge and politics and as a barometer of the immediate postindependence security concerns as they related to black Jamaicans. This essay is interested...

... vulnerable nor wholly resilient to the vagaries of global change. Instead, their livelihood in/securities often straddle both sides of the vulnerability-resilience spectrum. Copyright © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2018 vulnerability resilience global change in/security Caribbean agriculture...

...Mike Hill This paper examines contemporary debates around the US Census, US National Security Strategy, and various documents of postmodern war doctrine to delineate a mutation in domestic social order that is consistent both with the end of civil rights and with US planetary ambition. At one level...

... Regionalism which did not to secure political autonomy of the Provinces and became a mere illustration of their cultural and literary diversity, the failure of the Chamoiseau's campaign to preserve and liberate the martiniquan imaginary is almost inevitable. Ultimately, instead of asserting an national...

..., together, silent now. “Tressa, call security,” I shout, retrieving my machete from the ground, “and call Alan. Intruder on the avenue. Some children are in trouble.” The children. I call to Tressa to come on out and join me for our Saturday morning walkabout in the garden. She replies wearily...

... in the country's political history whose effects persist to this day. Most notably, the era showed how the island's inequitable involvement in the institutions of the international capitalist system provoked opposition and protest against dependency on that system. Protests to secure the country's autonomy...

... with immobilization or involuntary displacement. Writing of Jakarta, for instance, AbdouMaliq Simone asks, “What is security in uncertain environments, particularly when what passes as certainty is not only deceptive but also constraining, limiting what residents can do with the very uncertain conditions...

... of the aggrieved slaveholders; indeed, he went a far way toward making them, rather than the slaves themselves, the real subjects of slave emancipation. Not only did the slaveholders secure a period of “apprenticeship” during which the former slaves would be compelled to work for their former masters...

... 0799-0537 or on sustained economic growth for their legitimacy.² On the contrary, their tenure confi rms a legitimacy based on having won political independence, securing meaningful cultural standing for the Afro-Jamaican majority, and enabling a substantial degree of political participation...

... market, Trinidad’s own declining oil and natural gas outputs, the constriction of foreign investment, and the government’s use of neoliberal austerity measures (dismantling public investment and welfare programming) all erode the social security of working-class people, making them more vulnerable...

... with huge trade union support, secured large followings of all classes among the population, and by the 1950s the two-party system was well established. Among Manley’s supporters were ardent nationalists and young people who were studying Marxism. In those ranks were Richard Hart, Arthur Henry, Frank Hill...

... cultivated an ethical voice responsive to the violations that grow out of com- placent satisfactions, secure doctrines, congealed orders, sedimented identities. In this sense I read Stuart’s practice less for its cultural criticism than for the guidance it gives in speaking ethics to politics. I read...

... own introduction to Sistren during a workshop they facilitated in Toronto in 1993, my interest in pursuing further study of their methodology, and my ability to secure funding for this research are all also, themselves, a result of the forces of globalization.10 To gain a deeper understanding...

.... - Sixteen forty-fi ve hours. - HMS Troubridge has entered the harbor and secured alongside at No. 1 jetty and will immediately despatch an Internal Security Platoon to police headquarters. - Seventeen oh-fi ve hours. - HMS Wizard secured alongside HMS Troubridge...