Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism· 2013Q1
Bodies in the System
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This essay proposes extending Michel-Rolph Trouillot's framework for analyzing power systems by introducing the human body as a fourth unit of analysis, alongside the village, world, and nation.
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Key points
- Proposes the body as a fourth unit of analysis in power systems theory.
- Extends Michel-Rolph Trouillot's work on how small places and people matter globally.
- Utilizes feminist science studies and Caribbean fieldwork as theoretical and empirical bases.
- Aims to highlight the Caribbean's role in postcolonial power and politics.
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Abstract
As we consider the points of articulation between and among scales of analysis, Michel-Rolph Trouillot's theorization of how small places matter in the world, and further, of how seemingly marginal people might be central to our understanding of systems of power, remains an urgent project. In Peasants and Capital (1988) he examines three units—the village, the world, and the nation—that offer us one way to connect these people and places to global concerns. This essay suggests that Trouillot's intervention might be productively extended if we take seriously the body and its constituent parts as a fourth unit of analysis. Drawing from recent work in feminist science studies and from her own fieldwork on sexual politics in Martinique, the author asks how the body might function as an important scalar intertext in our ongoing efforts to demonstrate the centrality of the Caribbean to contemporary debates about power, politics, and the postcolonial.
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