The Abeng’s call: the articulation of place and the international in black power print production

Gowland, B. (2023) The Abeng’s call: the articulation of place and the international in black power print production. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 55(1), pp. 113-133. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12879)

Abstract

This article engages with radical Black Power print production in order to examine the articulation of Black practices of place-making and Black internationalist spatial politics. These spatial politics and practices are developed through engagement with the Jamaican Black Power newspaper Abeng which was produced at the height of Black Power activity on the island in 1969. The paper draws on Black Geographies scholarship to demonstrate that Abeng represented a material and discursive means through which subaltern practices and places of resistance in Jamaica were enacted in opposition to and excess of plantation spatialities and regimes on the island. The carving out of such subaltern places allowed for the articulation of transnational imaginaries and translocal solidarities with similarly aligned communities and struggles across the diasporic world. The Abeng newspaper was again central in crafting these imagined Black internationalist geographies and coeval praxes of transnational solidarity.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Gowland, Mr Ben
• Authors: Gowland, B.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Geographical and Earth Sciences
• Journal Name: Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography
• Publisher: Wiley
• ISSN: 0066-4812
• ISSN (Online): 1467-8330
• Published Online: 20 September 2022
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2022 The Author
• First Published: First published in Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 55(1): 113-133
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons licence