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Caribbean Conjectures Volume 1 Issues 1 & 2

Edited by Opal Palmer Adisa

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Introduction

CARIBBEAN CONJUNCTURES: THE CARIBBEAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (CSA) JOURNAL is marking the association’s 48th anniversary in 2022. Since its founding, CSA has established a strong tradition of annual academic conferences that showcase Caribbean scholarship and diverse membership. This long-anticipated, peer-reviewed academic journal has been launched to carry on that tradition and expand the association in terms of membership, visibility, and reach.

The journal’s mission is to promote the field of Caribbean Studies from multilingual, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and multicultural perspectives. It seeks to disseminate the works of scholars and practitioners that reflect the Greater Caribbean region – including Central America and the Caribbean coasts of Mexico and South America and extending to Northeast Brazil. In addition, the publication is intending to collaborate and support research and analysis which document the importance of the Caribbean’s connection to the African continent and the links to the Caribbean people throughout the Diaspora, especially in United States, Canada, and Europe.

The journal aspires to appeal to the interest of the global scholarly com-munities in understanding the breadth of the dynamics political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of the Greater Caribbean region by providing research articles, books reviews, arts reviews, scholarly commentaries, and visual arts that present original, relevant, broad-based insightful analysis and perspectives. Research articles have been double-blind peer reviewed, and the other contributions went through a single-blind peer review.

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Editor-in-Chief’s Note

PRIDE AND HUMILITY MIGHT NOT OCCUPY THE SAME space, yet presenting this, the inau-gural issue of Caribbean Conjunctures, the journal of the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA), twins these emotions in me, and they happily stand side-by-side. Caribbean Conjunctures introduces and assembles in one space the diverse breadth of scholarship by Caribbean intellectuals who have been meeting to share and exchange knowledge, learn from each other, and affirm their work for the betterment of their respective countries. It is therefore fitting that, at this juncture in history when the COVID 19 pandemic chal-lenged every aspect of the delicate economic Caribbean society, the journal should be born a testament to our resilience, resourcefulness, and creativity.

Aptly, the theme of this inaugural issue focuses on the pandemic and our responses, presenting us with various vantage points from which to evaluate its impact on our societies. But the journal rightly opens with “Reflecting on the Future of the Caribbean Studies Association with Lenses from the Past (by five CSA Past Presidents).” This serves as historical memory and, particularly for our newer members and emerging scholars, this reflection by five past presidents contextualizes the journey of this organization. Read-ing this piece took me back to the first CSA conference that I attended as a graduate student in Curaçao in 1982.

 

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Reflections

PRIDE AND HUMILITY MIGHT NOT OCCUPY THE SAME space, yet presenting this, the inaugural
issue of Caribbean Conjunctures, the journal of the Caribbean Studies
Association (CSA), twins these emotions in me, and they happily stand
side-by-side. Caribbean Conjunctures introduces and assembles in one space
the diverse breadth of scholarship by Caribbean intellectuals who have been
meeting to share and exchange knowledge, learn from each other, and affirm
their work for the betterment of their respective countries. It is therefore
fitting that, at this juncture in history when the COVID 19 pandemic challenged
every aspect of the delicate economic Caribbean society, the journal
should be born a testament to our resilience, resourcefulness, and creativity.

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Arts Reviews

Commentaries

Editorial Notes