Reclaiming Haiti's futures : returned intellectuals, placemaking, and radical imagination / Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson
- Author
- Dubuisson, Darlène Elizabeth
- Published
- New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, [2025]
- Physical Description
- xxii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Series
- Contents
- Introduction: Homing: a futural orientation -- Part I: Fractures -- Colonial ruptures in the Caribbean and the displacement of Haitian intellectuals -- Internal displacements: Tracing the generational aspects of exile and diasporic homecomings -- The "crisis factory:" improving place in the (state) university of Haiti -- Part II: Sutures -- Rasanblaj: assembly beyond coloniality's fractures -- Imagining emancipatory Caribbean futures -- Coda: reclaiming Haiti's futures: a call for planetary suturing and repair.
- Summary
- "Haiti was once a beaon 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 doctè," 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 offerrs 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"--
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781978837409 hardcover
1978837402 hardcover
9781978837393 paperback
1978837399 paperback - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Endowment Note
- Barbara S. Klein Libraries Collection Endowment in Art History and International Affairs
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