Brian Meeks
Biographic Data
| ID | 440481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Meeks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Meeks |
| SIGNATURE | MEEKS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination , by Adom Getachew
Anarchists of the Caribbean: Countercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion by Kirwin Shaffer
The notion of a burgeoning network of anarchists, working across the Caribbean to resist authoritarianism, fighting for workers and communal rights, and generally fomenting revolution, seems at first glance, fantastical. Yet, startlingly, such an alliance, if necessarily loosely constructed, did function with significant effect—especially in Cuba and Puerto Rico, Panama, Mexico, Tampa, Florida (among Cuban and Spanish tobacco workers), and New Yo…
Jamaica's Paradoxes
Book Review| February 01 2020 Jamaica's Paradoxes The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament, by OrlandoPatterson. Harvard University Press, 2019. Brian Meeks Brian Meeks Brian Meeks is a professor and chair of Africana studies at Brown University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (2020) 119 (814): 77–79. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2020.119.814.77 Views Icon Views Ar…
Roadblock on Hope Road: The End of Imagination and Capital’s Late Afternoon
(2019). Roadblock on Hope Road. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 65, Removing Roadblocks, pp. 347-366
Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity, by David Scott
David Scott's latest book is an exemplary and novel exercise in style, form, and content that seeks, simultaneously, to grasp the inner meanings of Stuart Hall's eclectic and lengthy oeuvre, locate it within the universe of contemporary social and political theory, and celebrate the life and work of a close interlocutor and friend.Any one of these objectives would be difficult to execute successfully in such a short monograph, yet Scott is able t…
Inward Yearnings: Jamaica’s Journey to Nationhood, by Colin A. Palmer
Michael Manley and Jamaican Democracy, 1972–1980: The Word is Love, written by F.S.J. Ledgister
After Tragedy, Searching for Liberation
Reprising the Past, Imagining the Future
In 2014, the author published a volume of essays, Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory, which Small Axe editor David Scott proposed might form the basis for a discussion around Meeks's work and its broader contribution to debates surrounding contemporary Caribbean politics and society. Obika Gray and Maziki Thame contributed review essays, tackling many of the issues explored in the book, including the Caribbean black power mov…
The Politics of Edna Manley: A Preliminary Appraisal
This essay was originally presented as the Fifth Edna Manley Memorial Lecture at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston, Jamaica, on 3 March 2015
Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory
This book reflects on Caribbean politics, particularly radical politics and ideologies in the postcolonial era. The book also explains the peculiarities of the contemporary neoliberal period while searching for pathways beyond the current plight. The first part, “Theoretical Forays” makes a conscious attempt to engage with contemporary Caribbean political thought at a moment of flux and search for a relevant theoretical language and style to both…
Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory
Cuba from Due South: An Anglo-Caribbean Perspective
in 1962 a bluemountain peak showeda green horizonto unsuspecting eye.standing spyglassedstaring blindly,thought I'd see a dull grey linetinged with red and barbed around/the picture framingcaptive portraits/hiding from sunlight/ideologically bound.the Caribbean greensurprised my eyeand set my mindto thinking.did New YorkTimes twist theCuban line around?were refugeesfrom Trench Town'sequals or refusefrom Batista's hi-lifeheroes of torturechamber, …
Brian Meeks, Envisioning Caribbean Futures
In this feature we highlight a recently launched book. We invite specialists in the field to comment on the book, and we invite the author to respond to their comments.In this issue we focus on Brian Meeks's, Envisioning Caribbean Futures. Those invited to comment on the book are Jay Mandle and Rivke Jaffe.[First paragraph]In Envisioning Caribbean Futures: Jamaican Perspectives (2007), Brian Meeks writes "in sympathy with the new social movements…
Envisioning Caribbean Futures
Employing critical analysis of Caribbean intellectual thought and of the postcolonial political economy, this book proposes a manifesto for the future. It suggests a form of participatory reorganization without, necessarily, dismantling the fundamentals of formal democratic organization
The Jamaican Moment: New Paths for the Caribbean
Reasoning with Caliban's Reason
Book Review| March 01 2002 Reasoning with Caliban's Reason Brian Meeks Brian Meeks Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 158–168. https://doi.org/10.1215/-6-1-158 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Brian Meeks; Reasoning with Caliban's Reason. Small Axe 1 March 2002; 6 (1): 158–168. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-6-1-158 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Mana…
New Caribbean Thought: A Reader
The dawn of the twenty-first century is an opportune time for the people of the Caribbean to take stock of the entire experience of the past forty years since the ending of direct colonialism. The authors believe it is now time to chart our future by carefully learning the lessons of the recent past. This interdisciplinary collection is the first to cross traditionally restrictive disciplinary barriers to address the tough questions that face the…
Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory: An assessment of Cuba, Nicaragua and Grenada
This volume re-examines the meaning of revolution as a useful concept in politics. It traces the history of the concept from its ancient beginnings, but especially in connection with the idea of progress since the French Revolution. More recent statements are examined as a prelude to arriving at a less deterministic, entrenched definition than has often been the case, but which retains the idea of revolution as a potential window and facilitator …
Reinventing the Jamaican Political System
Nuff at the Cusp of an Idea: Grassroots Guerrillas and the Politics of the 1970s in Trinidad and Tobago
Caribbean Insurrections
Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory: An Assessment of Cuba, Nicaragua and Grenada
ix, 210 p. ; 22 cm
Caribbean Insurrections
Computers
The Formulation of Models of Party Competition
In recent years a considerable amount of work has been done on spatial models of party competition.1 The usual approach has been to represent the position of a voter on a given issue or issues as a point in a space of one or more dimensions, the position of a party or candidate similarly, and then to try to build models based on the distribution of voter positions and the relative positions of voters and candidates, using various criteria for par…
Computers
Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory: An Assessment of Cuba, Nicaragua and Grenada
ix, 210 p. ; 22 cm
Caribbean Insurrections
Caribbean Insurrections
Nuff at the Cusp of an Idea: Grassroots Guerrillas and the Politics of the 1970s in Trinidad and Tobago
New Caribbean Thought: A Reader
The dawn of the twenty-first century is an opportune time for the people of the Caribbean to take stock of the entire experience of the past forty years since the ending of direct colonialism. The authors believe it is now time to chart our future by carefully learning the lessons of the recent past. This interdisciplinary collection is the first to cross traditionally restrictive disciplinary barriers to address the tough questions that face the…
Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory: An assessment of Cuba, Nicaragua and Grenada
This volume re-examines the meaning of revolution as a useful concept in politics. It traces the history of the concept from its ancient beginnings, but especially in connection with the idea of progress since the French Revolution. More recent statements are examined as a prelude to arriving at a less deterministic, entrenched definition than has often been the case, but which retains the idea of revolution as a potential window and facilitator …
Reinventing the Jamaican Political System
Reasoning with Caliban's Reason
Book Review| March 01 2002 Reasoning with Caliban's Reason Brian Meeks Brian Meeks Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 158–168. https://doi.org/10.1215/-6-1-158 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Brian Meeks; Reasoning with Caliban's Reason. Small Axe 1 March 2002; 6 (1): 158–168. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-6-1-158 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Mana…
The Jamaican Moment: New Paths for the Caribbean
Envisioning Caribbean Futures
Employing critical analysis of Caribbean intellectual thought and of the postcolonial political economy, this book proposes a manifesto for the future. It suggests a form of participatory reorganization without, necessarily, dismantling the fundamentals of formal democratic organization
Brian Meeks, Envisioning Caribbean Futures
In this feature we highlight a recently launched book. We invite specialists in the field to comment on the book, and we invite the author to respond to their comments.In this issue we focus on Brian Meeks's, Envisioning Caribbean Futures. Those invited to comment on the book are Jay Mandle and Rivke Jaffe.[First paragraph]In Envisioning Caribbean Futures: Jamaican Perspectives (2007), Brian Meeks writes "in sympathy with the new social movements…
Cuba from Due South: An Anglo-Caribbean Perspective
in 1962 a bluemountain peak showeda green horizonto unsuspecting eye.standing spyglassedstaring blindly,thought I'd see a dull grey linetinged with red and barbed around/the picture framingcaptive portraits/hiding from sunlight/ideologically bound.the Caribbean greensurprised my eyeand set my mindto thinking.did New YorkTimes twist theCuban line around?were refugeesfrom Trench Town'sequals or refusefrom Batista's hi-lifeheroes of torturechamber, …
Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory
This book reflects on Caribbean politics, particularly radical politics and ideologies in the postcolonial era. The book also explains the peculiarities of the contemporary neoliberal period while searching for pathways beyond the current plight. The first part, “Theoretical Forays” makes a conscious attempt to engage with contemporary Caribbean political thought at a moment of flux and search for a relevant theoretical language and style to both…
Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory
The Politics of Edna Manley: A Preliminary Appraisal
This essay was originally presented as the Fifth Edna Manley Memorial Lecture at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston, Jamaica, on 3 March 2015
Michael Manley and Jamaican Democracy, 1972–1980: The Word is Love, written by F.S.J. Ledgister
After Tragedy, Searching for Liberation
Reprising the Past, Imagining the Future
In 2014, the author published a volume of essays, Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory, which Small Axe editor David Scott proposed might form the basis for a discussion around Meeks's work and its broader contribution to debates surrounding contemporary Caribbean politics and society. Obika Gray and Maziki Thame contributed review essays, tackling many of the issues explored in the book, including the Caribbean black power mov…
Inward Yearnings: Jamaica’s Journey to Nationhood, by Colin A. Palmer
Roadblock on Hope Road: The End of Imagination and Capital’s Late Afternoon
(2019). Roadblock on Hope Road. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 65, Removing Roadblocks, pp. 347-366
Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity, by David Scott
David Scott's latest book is an exemplary and novel exercise in style, form, and content that seeks, simultaneously, to grasp the inner meanings of Stuart Hall's eclectic and lengthy oeuvre, locate it within the universe of contemporary social and political theory, and celebrate the life and work of a close interlocutor and friend.Any one of these objectives would be difficult to execute successfully in such a short monograph, yet Scott is able t…
Jamaica's Paradoxes
Book Review| February 01 2020 Jamaica's Paradoxes The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament, by OrlandoPatterson. Harvard University Press, 2019. Brian Meeks Brian Meeks Brian Meeks is a professor and chair of Africana studies at Brown University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (2020) 119 (814): 77–79. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2020.119.814.77 Views Icon Views Ar…
Anarchists of the Caribbean: Countercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion by Kirwin Shaffer
The notion of a burgeoning network of anarchists, working across the Caribbean to resist authoritarianism, fighting for workers and communal rights, and generally fomenting revolution, seems at first glance, fantastical. Yet, startlingly, such an alliance, if necessarily loosely constructed, did function with significant effect—especially in Cuba and Puerto Rico, Panama, Mexico, Tampa, Florida (among Cuban and Spanish tobacco workers), and New Yo…
Political science (20 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (17 works) · Law (16 works) · History (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Caribbean area (5 works)