Honor Ford-Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 1083007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Honor Ford-Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Honor |
| FAMILY NAME | Ford-Smith |
| SIGNATURE | FORD-SMITH H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Enduring as Stones: Performing Memories of Violence and the Labour of Care
Rituals and Worldbuilding: A Round-Table Discussion
The following is a transcript of a roundtable discussion between Camille Quamina, Senior Lecturer in the School of Drama at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston, Jamaica; Marvin George, Dean of the School of Drama at the Edna Manley College; Honor Ford-Smith, Associate Professor of Cultural and Artistic Practices for Environmental and Social Justice at York University in Toronto, Canada; and Jason Allen-Paisant, Ass…
The Body and Performance in 1970s Jamaica
This essay discusses decolonization, performance, and education in the 1970s in Jamaica and argues that embodied performances of humans existing at the margins of power are both compelling as and productive of new forms of knowledge because they teach us to challenge enduring colonial representations and create community in profound ways. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s work on colonial epistemologies and representation in relation to questions of rac…
At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror
The Ghost of Mikey Smith: Space, Performance and Justice
2017). The Ghost of Mikey Smith. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 63, The Caribbean Stage: From Traditional Theatre to Modern Performances, pp. 271-290
Keynote: Cannibals, colonial scholars and performance as postcolonial Caribbean knowledge production
(2007). KEYNOTE: Cannibals, colonial scholars and performance as postcolonial Caribbean knowledge production. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 53, The Idieri Papers: The Fifth International Drama in Education Research Institute. Guest Editor Brian Heap, pp. 8-22
Lionheart Gal: Life Stories of Jamaican Women (Caribbean Cultural Studies)
The re-publication of Lionheart Gal marks an event unique in contemporary literature. It is the distillation of the Jamaican woman’s experience in fifteen compelling life stories from the internationally known Sistren Theatre Collective. Since 1977 the women of Sistren have been exploring the lives of Caribbean women, from which they create plays, workshops and screen prints for presentation throughout the Caribbean and elsewhere. This book is ba…
Unruly virtues of the spectacular: Performing Engendered Nationalisms in the Unia in Jamaica
This paper complicates notions of anticolonial nationalist resistance by discussing images emerging within the performances of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Approaching the Garvey movement as a practice taken up by active subjects who engaged with and used its ideas, the paper contends that anticolonial resistance cannot be reduced to a single narrative, easily appropriated or overturned by dominant groups. An ex…
Three Poems
Notes toward a New Aesthetic
artist as it has been imported into our societies carries within it a very specific cultural ring. It implies that the arts are somehow transcendent and unrelated to ordinary life, that they are cordoned off from economic and political processes. I use the term cultural worker to evoke the notion that the cultural worker wants to break with some of the forces that constrain the life of the artist in the west and north. S/he wants to break out of …
Una Marson: Black Nationalist and Feminist Writer
(1988). Una Marson: Black Nationalist and Feminist Writer. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 34, No. 3-4, pp. 22-37
Una Marson: Black Nationalist and Feminist Writer
(1988). Una Marson: Black Nationalist and Feminist Writer. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 34, No. 3-4, pp. 22-37
The Body and Performance in 1970s Jamaica
This essay discusses decolonization, performance, and education in the 1970s in Jamaica and argues that embodied performances of humans existing at the margins of power are both compelling as and productive of new forms of knowledge because they teach us to challenge enduring colonial representations and create community in profound ways. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s work on colonial epistemologies and representation in relation to questions of rac…
Unruly virtues of the spectacular: Performing Engendered Nationalisms in the Unia in Jamaica
This paper complicates notions of anticolonial nationalist resistance by discussing images emerging within the performances of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Approaching the Garvey movement as a practice taken up by active subjects who engaged with and used its ideas, the paper contends that anticolonial resistance cannot be reduced to a single narrative, easily appropriated or overturned by dominant groups. An ex…
Notes toward a New Aesthetic
artist as it has been imported into our societies carries within it a very specific cultural ring. It implies that the arts are somehow transcendent and unrelated to ordinary life, that they are cordoned off from economic and political processes. I use the term cultural worker to evoke the notion that the cultural worker wants to break with some of the forces that constrain the life of the artist in the west and north. S/he wants to break out of …
Una Marson: Black Nationalist and Feminist Writer
(1988). Una Marson: Black Nationalist and Feminist Writer. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 34, No. 3-4, pp. 22-37
Notes toward a New Aesthetic
artist as it has been imported into our societies carries within it a very specific cultural ring. It implies that the arts are somehow transcendent and unrelated to ordinary life, that they are cordoned off from economic and political processes. I use the term cultural worker to evoke the notion that the cultural worker wants to break with some of the forces that constrain the life of the artist in the west and north. S/he wants to break out of …
Three Poems
Unruly virtues of the spectacular: Performing Engendered Nationalisms in the Unia in Jamaica
This paper complicates notions of anticolonial nationalist resistance by discussing images emerging within the performances of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Approaching the Garvey movement as a practice taken up by active subjects who engaged with and used its ideas, the paper contends that anticolonial resistance cannot be reduced to a single narrative, easily appropriated or overturned by dominant groups. An ex…
Lionheart Gal: Life Stories of Jamaican Women (Caribbean Cultural Studies)
The re-publication of Lionheart Gal marks an event unique in contemporary literature. It is the distillation of the Jamaican woman’s experience in fifteen compelling life stories from the internationally known Sistren Theatre Collective. Since 1977 the women of Sistren have been exploring the lives of Caribbean women, from which they create plays, workshops and screen prints for presentation throughout the Caribbean and elsewhere. This book is ba…
Keynote: Cannibals, colonial scholars and performance as postcolonial Caribbean knowledge production
(2007). KEYNOTE: Cannibals, colonial scholars and performance as postcolonial Caribbean knowledge production. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 53, The Idieri Papers: The Fifth International Drama in Education Research Institute. Guest Editor Brian Heap, pp. 8-22
The Ghost of Mikey Smith: Space, Performance and Justice
2017). The Ghost of Mikey Smith. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 63, The Caribbean Stage: From Traditional Theatre to Modern Performances, pp. 271-290
At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror
The Body and Performance in 1970s Jamaica
This essay discusses decolonization, performance, and education in the 1970s in Jamaica and argues that embodied performances of humans existing at the margins of power are both compelling as and productive of new forms of knowledge because they teach us to challenge enduring colonial representations and create community in profound ways. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s work on colonial epistemologies and representation in relation to questions of rac…
Enduring as Stones: Performing Memories of Violence and the Labour of Care
Rituals and Worldbuilding: A Round-Table Discussion
The following is a transcript of a roundtable discussion between Camille Quamina, Senior Lecturer in the School of Drama at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston, Jamaica; Marvin George, Dean of the School of Drama at the Edna Manley College; Honor Ford-Smith, Associate Professor of Cultural and Artistic Practices for Environmental and Social Justice at York University in Toronto, Canada; and Jason Allen-Paisant, Ass…
Art (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)