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Violence, Livity, Freedom
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 181–192.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Neil Roberts This essay proposes that Deborah Thomas's key contribution in Exceptional Violence is not so much the book's rethinking of violence and citizenship (as Thomas suggests) but rather its innovative examination of Rastafari thought and the implications for the idea of freedom. The essay...
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Violence, Mourning, and Political Alternatives
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 193–199.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Deborah A. Thomas This short essay is a response to the reflections of Nadia Ellis, Rivke Jaffe, and Neil Roberts regarding Exceptional Violence. It uses their reflections as a springboard to think through anthropological practice more broadly. © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 I want to state up front...
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Violence and Methodology: Reading Aristide in the Aftermath of 2004
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 148–160.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Valerie Kaussen This article analyzes the topic of dictatorship, political violence, and popular struggle in two recent works that treat the rise and fall of former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide: Alex Dupuy's The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community...
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Indefensible: On Aristide, Violence, and Democracy
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 161–173.
Published: 01 November 2009
... an alliance with the bourgeoisie and the foreign troika. The article assesses the role of corruption and violence by Aristide and his Lavalas Family party in his second overthrow. Small Axe, Inc. 2009 Indefensible: On Aristide,
Violence, and Democracy
Alex Dupuy
In their assessments of my...
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Between Despair and Hope: Women and Violence in Contemporary Guyana
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2004
...D. Alissa Trotz Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Between Despair and Hope:
Women and Violence in
Contemporary Guyana
D. Alissa Trotz
INTRODUCTION
he immediate aftermath of the 1997 and 2001 elections in Guyana was marked by
violence, most of which targeted members...
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Speaking in Tongues: Metapictures and the Discourse of Violence in Caribbean Art
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 119–143.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Erica Moiah James Violence, trauma, and memory are fundamental factors of Caribbean modernity but have thus far been underexamined within art history and criticism. This essay explores the invisible yet palpable presence of violence in the genre of family portraiture and the contemporary...
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Caribbean Studies, Archive Building, and the Problem of Violence
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 27–42.
Published: 01 July 2013
... the projects of political and cultural nationalism, one archive in particular—the emergent archive of violence—cannot be effortlessly rallied toward these ends. Instead, archives of violence bring into relief the limits of the anticolonial and immediately postcolonial focus on the nation-state as the primary...
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Citizenship Violence and the Afterlives of Dutch Colonialism: Rereading Anton de Kom
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 100–122.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and the law, the concept of what the author terms “citizenship violence” seems appropriate to appreciate the dynamics revealed in Wij slaven . However, as De Kom demonstrates, the colonized were not passive subjects; they resisted citizenship violence in multiple ways. Secondly, in discussing...
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Violence, Diasporic Transnationalism, and Neo-imperialism in A Brief History of Seven Killings
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 1–12.
Published: 01 November 2018
... diasporic networks: that of violence in all of its different social registers, from means of social control to response to the traumas of past violence. This essay argues that while James’s text is concerned with unveiling the roots of Jamaica’s violence in late–Cold War US imperialism and the larger...
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Forging Relational Difference: Racial Gendered Violence and Dispossession in Guyana
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Shanya Cordis Building on black and indigenous feminist scholarship, this essay examines the mutually constitutive processes of racial gendered violence and colonial dispossession undergirding Guyanese statecraft. Through an analysis of the colonial construction of the racial-sexual bodies...
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Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman : Intimacies, Proximities, Relationalities
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2018
...D. Alissa Trotz This essay engages a key thematic of Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture —racialized, gendered and sexualized violence in the making of the “coolie” woman in British Guiana. Through literary nonfiction, Bahadur offers a rigorous and imaginative methodological...
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Elegies of Diaspora
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 164–172.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Nadia Ellis This essay explores Deborah Thomas's remarkable new book, Exceptional Violence , in light of the critical inheritance of the term diaspora and the status of grief in relation to Jamaica's repertoire of violence. Focusing on two examples of spectacularized violence that Thomas reads...
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Violent Liaisons: Historical Crossings and the Negotiation of Sex, Sexuality, and Race in The Book of Night Women and The True History of Paradise
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 43–59.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Sam Vásquez Increased criticism and representations of violence in contemporary Jamaica often account for these tensions by citing poverty or gang and political rivalries in the post-independence era. However, both Marlon James's The Book of Night Women (2009) and Margaret Cezair-Thompson's...
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Paranoid Empire: Specters from Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 50–74.
Published: 01 March 2009
... camps? The U.S. state, I argue, has entered the domain of paranoia, for it is only in paranoia that one finds simultaneously both deliriums of omnipotence and forebodings of perpetual threat. I trace the flashpoints of paranoid violence into the labyrinths of torture to explore three crises: the crisis...
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What Times Are These? Visual Art and Social Crisis in Postcolonial Jamaica
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 164–184.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Veerle Poupeye This essay reflects on how social unrest and violence are responded to in the mainstream visual arts of postcolonial Jamaica. The focus is on two particular moments of crisis: the social unrest and political violence during the Michael Manley administration in the 1970s...
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Parricidal Son: The Murder of Cassia Rivulet and the Collapse of Postcolonial Time
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 1–21.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Glenn A. Elmer Griffin In this essay Glenn A. Elmer Griffin adopts a January 2009 parricidal attack in St. Lucia as an instantiation of the escalating problem of fratricidal crime in the postcolonial Eastern Caribbean. Following the work of Kamau Brathwaite, Griffin argues that this violence...
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Sensorial Errancy in Decolonial Key
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 144–153.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Rocío Zambrana This reflection on Ren Ellys Neyra’s The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics (2020) engages their reading of Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s cinema, paying particular attention to sensorial actualities that offer apprehension of the past of colonial violence...
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Bleeding, Wailing, and Hypnosis: The Words and Images of Caroline “booops” Sardine
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 16–34.
Published: 01 November 2013
... “booops” Sardine, for whom social violence, in the form of racial, class, and gender stereotyping, as well as a personal experience of physical violence and its attendant trauma, provide the substance of her work. © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 Though born into the tiny white minority of St...
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Disciplining the Unruly (National) Body in Staceyann Chin's The Other Side of Paradise
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2014
... is documenting the child abuse and homophobic violence she suffered. This essay makes visible the connections between physical punishments during slavery (with particular reference to “The History of Mary Prince”), practices of child abuse and homophobic violence in Jamaica, and contemporary modes of recognizing...
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Archive as Offering: Haiti and Historical Possibility
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 1–13.
Published: 01 November 2022
... guides this study of transnational practices of anti-Black violence and accounts for the possibilities of Black women’s futures beyond their record of disappearance. Naming the layered applications, quotidian quality, and refusals of physical, psychological, and archival violence during the US occupation...
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