My essay "Tending to the Future" is out in Small Axe!
Thanks @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to the Caribbean Keywords project on Heritage!
Read the essay here: read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar...
Posts by Alyssa A. L. James, PhD
A slide for Isle of Intellectuals: Cultural and Environmental Theory from Martinique, with map of Martinique and the Frantz Fanon quote “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity."
Excited to kick off Isle of Intellectuals tomorrow🌴📚
A seminar inviting students to think as intellectuals—critically, creatively, grounded—in our times of anti-intellectualism. It's inspired by @agardjones who taught a course by this title, itself coined by @lugicast.
Political Ecologies of Coffee in the Plantationocene Type: Panel Theme: Making Spaces of Possibility Primary Organizer: Estelí Jiménez Soto, University of South Florida Date: 3/28/2025 Time: 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM Room: 252B, Level 2, Huntington Place
If you'll be here through Friday #AAG2025 come hang out with me and some fantastic folks researching coffee!! cc + image credit to: @colibriphd.bsky.social
Looking forward to the discussion and debate around speculative ethnography at this salon event next week!
protest photo with sign that says "leur profitation = notre misere"
Excited to share my latest piece in print on Martinique’s Vie Chère protests—a powerful fight for food justice in the Caribbean.
www.stabroeknews.com/2024/12/16/f...