Alyssa A. L. James, PhD

Alyssa A. L. James, PhD

@colibriphd.bsky.social

postdoc at usc society of fellows. ackee & saltfish black. co-creator of zora's daughters podcast. ☕ 🌱🇲🇶 aquarius. ravenclaw. toronto. etc. aaljames.com

170 Followers 88 Following 4 Posts Joined Nov 2024
5 months ago
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My essay "Tending to the Future" is out in Small Axe!

Thanks @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to the Caribbean Keywords project on Heritage!

Read the essay here: read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar...

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6 months ago
A slide for Isle of Intellectuals: Cultural and Environmental Theory from Martinique, with map of Martinique and the Frantz Fanon quote “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity."

Excited to kick off Isle of Intellectuals tomorrow🌴📚
A seminar inviting students to think as intellectuals—critically, creatively, grounded—in our times of anti-intellectualism. It's inspired by @agardjones who taught a course by this title, itself coined by @lugicast.

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11 months ago
 Political Ecologies of Coffee in the Plantationocene

Type: Panel

Theme: Making Spaces of Possibility

Primary Organizer: Estelí Jiménez Soto, University of South Florida

Date: 3/28/2025
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM 
Room: 252B, Level 2, Huntington Place

If you'll be here through Friday #AAG2025 come hang out with me and some fantastic folks researching coffee!! cc + image credit to: @colibriphd.bsky.social

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1 year ago
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Looking forward to the discussion and debate around speculative ethnography at this salon event next week!

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1 year ago
protest photo with sign that says "leur profitation = notre misere"

Excited to share my latest piece in print on Martinique’s Vie Chère protests—a powerful fight for food justice in the Caribbean.

www.stabroeknews.com/2024/12/16/f...

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