Maroon In/Securities

Cummings, Ronald

doi:10.1215/07990537-7249126

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“…Taking a cue from Ronald Cummings (2018:48), who suggests reframing the plantation “as an unstable site of flight, resistance, rebellion, and returns, as well as of colonial anxieties”, might we read the statement as revealing instead that tenure to the grounds was secured by Black refusal and care? After all, like market‐time, time on the grounds was “slave‐controlled time to a large extent … Time to mark the work tempo with old songs, to learn rhythm while working, and to enjoy both the rhythm and the work.…”

Section: The Unvisible Poles Of Sugar’s Circuitmentioning

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“…Though I have focused more on the plot’s conscription to the reproduction of the “provisional” rather than as a template for “liberated life‐ways” (Gilmore 2017:228)—a topic I take up elsewhere—the plot is more than the externalisation of reproduction. Reading the plantation “as an unstable site of flight, resistance, rebellion, and returns, as well as of colonial anxieties” (Cummings 2018:48) reorients us to the plot as anticolonial, abolitionist practice.…”

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“…13 13 “There was something sufficiently appalling in the idea that many of the disciplined negroes might escape into the vastness of the interior, and there gather round them new and more formidable bands of Maroons, to spread terror and havoc through surrounding estates” (Bryan Edwards 1793, quoted in Cummings 2018:50). …”

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Reproducing the Plot: Making Life in the Shadow of Premature Death

Goffe

2022

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A protracted process of policy development has been underway in Jamaica to curtail the widespread incidence of informal settlements. Against the logic of emerging policy, this article aims to reconnect present-time unauthorised use of space to ancestral refusals of plantation land monopoly. Through ethnographic research and a reconsideration of historical texts, the article situates insecure tenure in a long history of conflict over land and livelihood-conflict that produces a boundary around the authorised use of space. That boundary is porous and mobile, the outcome of a palimpsest of colonial violence and its negation. This argument interrogates the gap between "landless" and "ownershipless", revealing both the role of incomplete dispossession in racialised social reproduction and the spatial practices through which Jamaicans "make life" even in the shadow of premature death.

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Reproducing the Plot: Making Life in the Shadow of Premature Death

Goffe

2022

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“…Whereas historical research has paid attention primarily to maroon survival in colonial times, geographical research has analyzed how this legacy has been mobilized in different manners for African descendants in daily resistance against inequality and racial discrimination (R. Price 1973Price , 1983McFarlane 1986;Navarrete 2003;Cummings 2018;Krug 2018). Bledsoe (2017) described how maroon leaders in Brazil and their territories or quilombos are used as symbols of Black power in struggles against systemic racism to demand rights and the legal recognition of autonomous Black communities (Paschel 2018).…”

Section: San Basilio De Palenque a Maroon-descendant Communitymentioning

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Maroon Socioterritorial Movements

Guillen

2021

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Maroon communities, or communities of descendants of fugitives from slavery, have been long-lasting examples of social movements pursuing political goals through the production and mobilization of space. They have been largely forgotten in academic analyses, however, which, in Latin America, are primarily focused on peasants and indigenous movements. Therefore, drawing on socioterritorial movements readings and maroon studies, this article analyzes how maroon-descendant communities have produced territory in both urban and rural spaces-including areas of forced displacement-locally and transnationally, to survive hegemonies deeply rooted in the legacy of slavery and to achieve political aims. These communities unsettle binary categories of rural and urban socioterritorial movements and monolithic visions of antistate struggle. This transterritorial, rural-urban appropriation of spaces resisting different powers follows the past logic of marronage to achieve freedom and security, re-creating in present times the political vision of historical maroon leaders regarding the construction of a grand Palenque in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.

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“…But other forms of fugitivity, such as temporary escape (petit marronage) and flight across borders to putatively "free" states, were even more widespread (Camp, 2005;Nevius, 2020a). What all these all have in common is the subversive use of movement and geography as tactics to enable individual and collective survival within geographies of in/security (Cummings, 2018;Noxolo, 2018b).…”

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Toward ‘Fugitivity as Method’

Gross-Wyrtzen,

Moulton

2023

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<p>Recent studies on fugitivity, marronage, and other forms of flight from racial violence and dehumanization have mapped a historical and spatial archipelago of Black and Indigenous freedom struggles across the Caribbean and the Americas. Narratives of fugitivity recuperate the diverse and widespread practices of resistance and refusal that have always accompanied racial violence in these geographies. While scholars have demonstrated the ongoing-ness of racial violence from the plantation to the present, studies on fugitivity remain largely confined to the historical period of chattel slavery, having the unintended effect of rendering plantation futures hegemonic in the present. In addition, the majority of studies have confined analysis to the “New World” despite the prevalence of fugitive practices in other spaces of colonial and racial capitalist domination. Rooted in Black geographies, this special issue asks what fugitivity—as a historical phenomenon, analytical category, and political practice—adds to our understanding of the production of space and subjects today. As a method, fugitivity travels across disciplinary boundaries and multiple spacetimes, charting the entanglements of geographies of racial violence and the freedom practices of racialized people. The articles in the special issue are unified by a concern for how fugitivity, as a method of knowledge-making, kin-making, and place-making, elude the enclosure of traditional politics and how collective, rather than individual, resistances forge alternative spaces in excess but never fully outside of dominant geographies.</p>

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Maroon In/Securities

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Reproducing the Plot: Making Life in the Shadow of Premature Death

Reproducing the Plot: Making Life in the Shadow of Premature Death

Maroon Socioterritorial Movements

Toward ‘Fugitivity as Method’

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