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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 83–88.
Published: 01 March 2024
... transformative; it is affective, performative, and processual; it requires witnesses and generates archives; and it lays out political and social possibilities beyond the forms of recognition on offer by the nation-state. It is, like “strategic flexibility,” grounded in relationships and in a troubling...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 76–82.
Published: 01 March 2024
... a host of tenure practices that echo the “strategic flexibility” of speculators (106). For example, family land is an inalienable, jointly held tenure formed when a forebear bequeaths land to all descendants through will or oral tradition. Jean Besson’s extensive ethnographic research shows how Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 50–68.
Published: 01 November 2019
... by positioning Puerto Rican independence as central to a wider decolonial Caribbean and postwar world order. By analyzing Pueblos Hispanos ’s practice of “inter-nationalism”—a term the author proposes to denote the flexible strategy used to mediate between competing political interests and which can serve...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 175–184.
Published: 01 March 2016
... movement, and the African National Congress. Redmond also locates alternative political strategizing in music itself, such as Nina's Simone's oeuvre: “Her music therefore modeled important organizing strategies, such as constant movement/evolution, flexibility, and unpredictability”—embodied in Simone's...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 37–46.
Published: 01 November 2018
... (for example, as we see in Susan P. Mains’s essay here, government officials involved in the politics of planning for the perceived security of tourists), 5 and those who have to strategize daily to survive profound threats at the smallest scales, in the home and in the body (see my own contribution below...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 194–208.
Published: 01 June 2007
..., strategic initia-
tive, funded by a group of rich planters (including Bayon de Libertat), in which Toussaint
played a key role. The aim of this conspiracy was to broker—through a positing of common
adversity—an alliance between the royalist grands blancs and the republican petits blancs,
involving...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 70–86.
Published: 01 October 2006
... to the
rationalized plan, the experience of the plantation demanded a certain amount of adaptation,
improvisation, and flexibility in repurposing the materials at hand. Thesebricolage tendencies
were amplified by the situation and the interaction with the slaves who necessarily adopted
a series...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 28–43.
Published: 01 July 2016
... is flexibility; with the help of those who love you, you move on, finding a place to function creatively in three worlds that should be one.” 69 In late spring 1941, Chen received a warning from the chief of police to cease public writing as a climate of censorship and repression descended over Trinidad...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 123–135.
Published: 01 July 2013
... as progress toward more flexible models for academic work in Caribbean studies. This flexibility is at the core of Brathwaite's argument in his seminal article “Caribbean Man in Space and Time,” wherein he maintains that Caribbean studies, particularly Caribbean historiography, “is an exercise of enormous...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 89–98.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of our collaboration we have not even lived in the same place. This has forced us to be dynamic and flexible, working together in person and over the phone, across e-mail, in chats, and over Skype. Collaboration for us as diasporic Caribbean women artists in a technologically mediated, global economy...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 110–121.
Published: 01 July 2023
... that practices and histories of cimarronaje had not been central throughout earlier centuries in the contestatory political mobilization and identity formation of Afro-descendants in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean world. Here, I seek to point out only another moment of wide, strategic deployment of the cimarrón...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2010
.... There is no room in Fanon’s analysis to
understand Capécia’s contradictory appropriation of whiteness: indicating on the one hand
a compromised understanding of self in which she is dissipated by the thing she desires;
on the other hand a strategic ploy for negotiating her way through a harsh, discriminatory...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2011
... “specificity” but rather as a basis for such relation, offering a sophisticated poetic articulation of how an open community grounded not on identity but on strategic alliance might look. It is precisely in a moment of defeat, or failure, at a time defined by “living without an alternative,” that Texaco...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., how did women—arguably the vectors of racial inheritance—experience their role as conscripts of enslaveability? Would they see or experience flexibility or indeterminacy in how they inhabited racialized space in the seventeenth century? Centering a gendered history of intimacy clarifies the layered...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 135–156.
Published: 01 March 2009
... that never matched, and pic-
tures of the scantily clad “Tina” next to The Last Supper. The dressing and maintenance of
the front room reveals a form of “impression management,” as in the flexible presentation of
self that brings up issues of “good grooming” among people of African descent. It was very...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 100–112.
Published: 01 November 2013
...-evidently emancipatory, however, about a particular scalar fix. Like the power relationships that might be maintained or challenged, the production of scale is a strategic exercise. Smith wrote initially in a primarily Marxist vein, so he traced scalar transformations to fluctuations in capital flows where...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 154–171.
Published: 01 July 2013
... by the standards of rich nations,” 38 an interesting development is also suggested by the Jamaican case in particular, in which the official celebration of remittances in general appears to be narrowing its focus to a more selective or strategic targeting of skilled emigrants. 39 In reports issued...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 2013
... ideal lovers. But the e-commentaries also strategize about how to make an attractive Jamaicanness-in-diaspora. The content of these online commentaries affirms a powerful desire for a sublime self-in-diaspora, particularly one that radiates this ideal. Reading Channer's first novel as a romance...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 54–69.
Published: 01 October 2006
... to the construc-
tion of collective memories, nationalist projects are also characterized by acts of strategic
forgetting. In the case of Britain, nationalists must forget the remarkably mongrel charac-
ter of national identity as well as the imperial history that is responsible for postcolonial
migration...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 19–33.
Published: 01 March 2023
.... These two women lived vastly different lives with varying access to resources, unique political struggles and race relations, and distinct illnesses and treatments. Even so, they strategized about how to nurture the abundant Blackfulness in their respective countries. Through conversations they learned...
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