Small Axe Project
The Small Axe Project is an integrated publication undertaking devoted to Caribbean intellectual and artistic work, exercised over three platforms—Small Axe; sx salon, and sx visualities—each with a different structure, medium, and practice. The Project also curates related events, symposia, and exhibitions. The Small Axe Project is administered by Small Axe Incorporated, a not-for-profit [501(c)3] organization established in New York State in 2002, and is funded by The Ford Foundation, The Reed Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. David Scott is Director. David Scott David Scott is the president of Small Axe Inc., the director of the Small Axe Project, and the founding editor of Small Axe journal. He teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil (1994), Refashioning Futures: Criticism After Postcoloniality (1999), Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (2004), Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice (2014), and Stuart Hall's Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity (2017). He is also co-editor of Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and his Interlocutors (2007), He is currently working on a book project examining the moral imperative of reparations for New World slavery. David Scott was awarded the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) Distinguished Editor prize in 2017 for his work as editor of Small Axe: A Journal of Caribbean Criticism. Gordon Hutner said, at the Book Review Session arranged by CELJ on 5 January 2017: Among others praising Scott's work, Roshini Kempadoo, lecturer at University of Westminster, said: "Small Axe edited and published under Scott's vision has become one of most relevant intellectual and creative publications for our current political, social and cultural climate. Small Axe continues to reflect the 'problem space' of the contemporary global moment." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism is a peer-reviewed triannual print journal that was established in Jamaica in March 1997 as a forum for critical writing. It was originally published by Ian Randle Publishers biannually for the Small Axe Collective. In 1998, the journal moved to University of the West Indies Press. The journal moved again in 2000 to Indiana University Press, and began triannual publication in 2006. Small Axe has been published by Duke University Press in March, July and November, since 2009. David Scott is Editor and Vanessa Pérez-Rosario is Managing Editor. The journal publishes scholarly articles, essays, book discussions, and interviews, as well as literary works of fiction and poetry, visual arts, and reviews. The mission of the journal consists in the renewal of practices of intellectual criticism in the Caribbean, as well as an interrogation and expansion of the idea of "criticism". Furthermore, Small Axe aims to rethink extant conceptualizations of the regional and diasporic Caribbean, and to provide a platform for critical dialogues emerging from and pertaining to the