David Scott (anthropologist)
David Scott (anthropologist)
David Scott is a Jamaican academic and curator. He is the Ruth and William Lubic Professor of Anthropology and chair of the anthropology department at Columbia University in New York City, United States. He is a recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.
"...To bring us back to Small Axe, one of the things that we have had to worry about over the course of our existence is the extent to which or the senses in which we are a Caribbean journal with a sense of concern for the regional Caribbean, and not a diaspora journal, as we might have imagined ourselves to be."
"I do think of my work, certainly in Refashioning Futures and Conscripts of Modernity, as work that has grown out of the larger conceptual vision that for me inspired the initiation of the Small Axe project — that is, a sense that the dream of anti-colonialism through which my generation came of age in the Caribbean, and through which the Caribbean was imagined as a space of social transformation and revolutionary change, has now been exhausted. And the end of that dream (and the practices of criticism that accompanied it) has created a demand for us to rethink the project of criticism and social change. This sense of the present infuses both my stewardship of Small Axe and the directions of my own research and writing."
"One of the things that Small Axe has been trying to do over the years is to be self-conscious about criticism as a question."
