Description: Reclaiming Haiti's Futures by Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson 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 Haitis 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 colonialitys 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. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography DARLÈNE ELIZABETH DUBUISSON is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. Table of Contents Preface Note on Text Abbreviations Chronology Introduction: "Homing": A Futural Orientation Part I Fractures 1 Colonial Ruptures in the Caribbean and the Displacement of Haitian Intellectuals 2 Internal Displacements: Tracing the Generational Aspects of Exile and Diasporic Homecomings 3 The "Crisis Factory:" Improvising Place in the (State) University of Haiti Part II Sutures 4 Rasanblaj: Assembly beyond Colonialitys Fractures 5 Imagining Emancipatory Caribbean Futures Coda: Reclaiming Haitis Futures: A Call for Planetary Suturing and Repair Acknowledgments Notes References Index Review "Reclaiming Haitis Futures is a truly wonderful contribution to Caribbean Studies—a deeply meditative work of scholarship, suffused with care for the present, consideration of the past, and an urgency for a Caribbean future beyond our current neocolonial predicament." -- Aaron Kamugisha * author of Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition *"Reclaiming Haitis Futures stands as a courageous act of decoloniality and as a powerful reimagining of Haitis intellectual futures and societal structures. Dubuisson traces the history of the Haitian intelligentsia and calls upon local academics and returnees to work across fractures to create a stronger higher education system, a more robust civil society, and ultimately envision new democratic futures for Haiti and other nations of the Global South." -- Claudine Michel * professor emerita of Black studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara * Details ISBN1978837402 Publisher Rutgers University Press Series Critical Caribbean Studies Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781978837409 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-12-13 Imprint Rutgers University Press Subtitle Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination Audience General Author Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson Audience Age 18-99 Place of Publication New Brunswick NJ Country of Publication United States Illustrations 1 color and 6 B-W images US Release Date 2024-12-13 DEWEY 303.4097294 ISBN-10 1978837402 UK Release Date 2024-12-13 Pages 220 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161877861;
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