Keywords in Caribbean Studies: A Small Axe Project debuted in July 2022 and grows out of the work of criticism that the Small Axe Project has engaged in for more than twenty-five years. Refashioning and revising the model of Keywords advanced by Raymond Williams in his monograph of the same title in 1973, our project of critical vocabulary stages the productive tensions across disparate genealogies rather than enforcing a settled regional consensus.

sx art is the Small Axe Project platform devoted to visual practice and its place in Caribbean cultural, social, and political life. Since its inception, our print journal Small Axe, has been concerned to explore ways in which visual practice, and more generally Caribbean visual culture, has been at the center of the experimental cultural, political, and aesthetic imagination of the region and the diaspora.

The Small Axe Project platform is a space for critical curated interventions—visual, scholarly,
creative—that grow out of our engagement with themes and questions of historical and contemporary Caribbean concern. From time to time over the years we have launched such
cultural-political interventions that aim to alter or shift the terms of the going conversation.