Sargasso’s editors have simply introduced the publication of the latest subject, Cooperation and Solidarity, edited by Katherine Miranda, Grisell Reyes Núñez, and Eva Villalón Soler. The quilt artwork (proven above) is by Ricardo Levins Morales.
Description: This subject of the journal engages numerous manifestations of cooperation throughout the Caribbean, with a specific curiosity in Puerto Rico. It explores cooperation as a component of tradition, as a mind-set, and as a platform for change that bolsters the well-being of Caribbean individuals. As signaled within the editors’ introduction, “cooperation and solidarity provide frameworks for tactics of working and being that heart sharing, mutual profit, and mutual help, by means of self-motivated and voluntary motion.”
The quantity contains contributions by students from numerous backgrounds and disciplines. The primary essay, written by Pablo Guerra, is “On Solidarity within the Financial system and the Solidarity Financial system.” Translated into English by Katherine Miranda, it supplies and house for desirous about the place of solidarity as a conventional humanistic worth in addition to a name for innovation. Subsequent is Grisell Reyes Núñez and Efraín Rosados Rodriguez’s provocative “Cooperativismo, economía social y solidaria en Puerto Rico: desafíos y estrategias para su desarrollo.” Colleen T. Dwyer’s translation of this work, “Cooperativism and the Social and Solidarity Financial system in Puerto Rico: Challenges and Methods for Its Growth,” follows. The quantity additionally contains Luis N. Rivera Pagán’s “Coloniaje y capitalism en nuestro cooperativismo nacional: Reacción al Manifiesto Castañer” in addition to the unique manifesto by Grupo de Reflexión y Acción Cooperativa Santiago Andrade (GRACSA). The latter, “El Manifiesto de Castañer,” showcases cooperativism as a automobile by means of which social and financial justice will be achieved.
The quantity additional elaborates its important theme within the particular part “Practising Cooperation.” Right here, a variety of Caribbean contributors share and touch upon concrete examples of cooperation with which they’ve been personally concerned. Amongst these are Ezner Angervil, Daniel Dugger, Sorrah Edwards-Thro, and Abter Sauveur of Haiti with “Lekòl Kominotè Matènwa: Group-Centered Mom Tongue Schooling,” Adom Philogene Heron and photographer Marica Honeychurch from Dominica with “The Ti Kai Challenge: Craft, Collaboration, & Care,” Refica Attwood from Antigua and Barbuda with “Wallings Nature Reserve: Group Land Administration for Sustainability,” and Isabel Dennis from Jamaica with “Vulnerability: The Essence of Collaborative Communities.”
The particular part contains a number of examples of cooperation from Puerto Rico: Bárbara I. Abadía Rexach, creator of “Colectivo Ilé: Afrosororidades solidarias,” Lydia Platòn Lázaro, Mariana Reyes Angleró, and Juan Otero Garabís, authors of “Taller Comunidad la Goyco: Estrategias emergentes de colaboración,” and Natalia Ortiz-Cotto, creator of “Cooplibri: La cooperación es la base de todo lo que hacemos.”
As soon as once more Sargasso succeeds in exhibiting readers that poetry, artistic writing, and visible artwork contribute to our understanding of how we will embody and bolster cooperation and solidarity. The quantity contains intriguing poems by Mona Clark, Nancy Anne Miller, Schneider Ok. Rancy, and R. Kipp Miller, in addition to Adriana Garriga López’s translation of a poem by Claude McKay. Works of artistic writing by Ada M. Patterson and Daizal R. Samad are additionally included. As well as, an essay by Eduardo Lalo work is translated into English by Eduardo Rodríguez. Artist Ricardo Levins Morales created the quilt artwork, and the again cowl picture options Don Rimx’s mural of the late drummer Tito Matos.
The quantity additionally contains critiques of 5 latest publications in Caribbean research.
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Sargasso, A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, and Tradition, has been been printed on the College of Puerto Rico’s Río Piedras campus since 1984. Based mostly within the Division of English, the journal is dedicated to publishing work that’s by, about, and for Caribbean individuals.