Reclaiming Haiti's Futures: Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination - Couverture rigide

Dubuisson, Darlène Elizabeth

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ISBN 10 : 1978837402 ISBN 13 : 9781978837409

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Haiti was once a beacon of Black liberatory futures, but now it is often depicted as a place with no future where emigration is the only way out for most of its population. But Reclaiming Haiti's Futures tells a different story. It is a story about two generations of Haitian scholars who returned home after particular crises to partake in social change. The first generation, called jenerasyon 86, were intellectuals who fled Haiti during the Duvalier dictatorship (1957-1986). They returned after the regime fell to participate in the democratic transition through their political leadership and activism. The younger generation, dubbed the jenn doktè, returned after the 2010 earthquake to partake in national reconstruction through public higher education reform. An ethnography of the future, the book explores how these returned scholars resisted coloniality's fractures and displacements by working toward and creating inhabitability or future-oriented places of belonging through improvisation, rasanblaj (assembly), and radical imagination. By centering on Haiti and the Caribbean, the book offers insights not just into the Haitian experience but also into how fractures have come to typify more aspects of life globally and what we might do about it.

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À propos de l'auteur

DARLÈNE ELIZABETH DUBUISSON is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1978837402
• ISBN 13: 9781978837409
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 220
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