Reading Postemancipation In/Security
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4878828 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anyaa Anim-Addo (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 105-114 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1534-6714 • E-ISSN: 0799-0537 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/07990537-7249186 |
| OpenAlex | W2902671142 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
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 practices that shaped the texture of freedom. An engagement with travel narratives, specifically attentive to reading against the grain of elite mobilities, is proposed as a means through which to reveal the everyday negotiation of livelihoods. Offering the market as a case study, the essay argues that everyday negotiations of economic insecurity rested on mobile strategies and that the mobilization of such strategies took on a new significance with the rise of tourism in the decades after emancipation
Disengagement theory · Elite · Emancipation · Everyday life · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Sex work and related issues
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |