SPECIALISED UNITS AND CENTRES AT A GLANCE
CARIBBEAN QUARTERLY A JOURNAL OF CARIBBEAN CULTURE The academic year 2019/2020 saw the fourth year of CQ’s publishing partnership with Routledge/ Taylor and Francis group. This partnership has continued to reap rewards in terms of global exposure. In the first three years of the partnership the number of institutions with access to CQ increased by 23%; downloads increased by 164%; CQ’s total revenues—and therefore earnings—increased by 79%.
Two special issues (December 2019 and June 2020) and two general issues (September 2019 and March 2020) were published in the year under review. Special issues provide a unique space for a detailed exploration of specific themes of significance to contemporary Caribbean development and culture. The December 2019 special issue on “Power, Performance and Play in Caribbean Carnival”, guest edited by Leeds-based scholar Emily Zobel Marshall, analyses and celebrates “the incredible cultural phenomenon of Caribbean Carnival” from a global perspective, recognising that “researching Caribbean Carnival cultures, at home and across the African diaspora, is central to an examination of the ways in which African diasporic cultures have resisted cultural oppression and . . . have continued to imagine greater freedoms”. Our June 2020 special issue on “Crime in Selected Caribbean Territories”, guest edited by Dylan Kerrigan of the University of Leicester and UWI professor Paula Morgan, provides new cultural perspectives on what continues to be one of the biggest challenges to the region’s development in contemporary times, asserting that “the articles in this issue provide examples of the penetrative insights an interdisciplinary approach brings to the study and understanding of crime in the Caribbean”. Both special issues, then, continue CQ’s tradition of promoting discourse on matters of regional significance—matters which ultimately address the health and therefore wealth of the region.
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