A Critical Anthropology Of Childhood In Haiti
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A Critical Anthropology Of Childhood In Haiti
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Author : Diane M. Hoffman
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-01-11
A Critical Anthropology Of Childhood In Haiti written by Diane M. Hoffman and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-11 with Social Science categories.
This book offers a critical anthropological perspective on contemporary childhood in Haiti. It is based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork carried out over a period of 13 years with vulnerable children in Haiti. Diane M. Hoffman raises important questions about how interventions by well-meaning foreigners and 'white saviors' often misrepresent Haitian culture and society as deficient, while privileging their own emotions alongside supposedly universal ideas about children that reinforce their own power to define and intervene in Haitian lives. She argues for a new approach to Haitian childhood that centers children's informal learning and self-education alongside indigenous spirituality and constructions of personhood that can resist the hegemony of neo-colonial and neo-liberal forces. Instead of representing the country and its children as a place of "problems to be solved," the book shows the importance prioritizing aspects of Haitian world-views in order to develop a more culturally-informed understanding of childhood in Haiti that can support genuine social change.
Sleeping Rough In Port Au Prince
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Author : J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Sleeping Rough In Port Au Prince written by J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Port-au-Prince (Haiti) categories.
"In this ethnographic analysis of the cultural lives of children who are "sleeping rough" in Port-au-Prince, Kovats-Bernat expands the traditional bounds of anthropological thought, which have only recently permitted a scholarly treatment of "the child" as a valuable informant, relevant witness, and active agent of social change. Refuting the commonplace notion that street children are unsocialized, Hobbesian mongrels, the author finds these children adopt strategies to carve a social and cultural space for themselves on the contested streets of Port-au-Prince, individually and collectively playing a vital role in Haiti's civic life as they shape their own complex political, economic, and cultural identities"--Back cover.
The Haiti Exception
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Author : Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
The Haiti Exception written by Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Literary Collections categories.
This collection of essays considers the ways and extent of Haiti's 'exceptionalisation' - its perception in multiple arenas as definitively unique with respect not only to the countries of the North Atlantic, but also to the rest of the Americas. Painted at once as repulsive and attractive, abject and resilient, singular and exemplary, Haiti has long been framed discursively by an extraordinary epistemological ambivalence. The nation has served at once as cautionary tale, model for humanitarian aid and development projects, and point of origin for general theorizing of the so-called Third World. What to make of this dialectic of exemplarity and alterity? How to pull apart this multivalent narrative so as to examine its constituent parts? The contributors to The Haiti Exception take up these and other such questions from a variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives, among which Africana Studies, anthrohistory, art history, Black Studies, Caribbean Studies, education, ethnology, Jewish Studies, literary studies, performance studies, and urban studies. As they revise and interrogate their respective praxes, they accept the challenge of thinking about the particular stakes of and motivations for their own commitment to Haiti. Engaging in the decidedly risky anthropological practice of reflexivity, the scholars, activists and other social actors gathered here consider their own often fraught role in constructing Haiti in and as narrative.
Fewer Men More Babies
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Author : Timothy T. Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2009
Fewer Men More Babies written by Timothy T. Schwartz and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Business & Economics categories.
Based on original ethnographic research conducted in rural Haiti, Timothy T. Schwartz offers an explanation for a demographic paradox that some of the most prominent sociologists and demographers of the twentieth century noted but were never able to explain: among impoverished...
Children In Crisis
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Author : Manata Hashemi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-06-07
Children In Crisis written by Manata Hashemi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-07 with Social Science categories.
This volume brings together ethnographers conducting research on children living in crisis situations in both developing and developed regions, taking a cross-cultural approach that spans different cities in the global North and South to provide insight and analyses into the lifeworlds of their young, at-risk inhabitants. Looking at the lived experiences of poverty, drastic inequality, displacement, ecological degradation and war in countries including Haiti, Argentina and Palestine, the book shows how children both respond to and are shaped by their circumstances. Going beyond conventional images of children subjected to starvation, hunger, and disease to build an integrated analysis of what it means to be a child in crisis in the 21st century, the book makes a significant contribution to the nascent field of study concerned with development and childhood. With children now at the forefront of debates on human rights and poverty reduction, there is no better time for scholars, policymakers and the general public to understand the complex social, economic and political dynamics that characterize their present predicaments and future life chances.
Why Haiti Needs New Narratives
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Author : Gina Athena Ulysse
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-25
Why Haiti Needs New Narratives written by Gina Athena Ulysse and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-25 with Social Science categories.
Winner of the Haitian Studies Association Excellence in Scholarship Award (2015) Mainstream news coverage of the catastrophic earthquake of January 12, 2010, reproduced longstanding narratives of Haiti and stereotypes of Haitians. Cognizant that this Haiti, as it exists in the public sphere, is a rhetorically and graphically incarcerated one, the feminist anthropologist and performance artist Gina Athena Ulysse embarked on a writing spree that lasted over two years. As an ethnographer and a member of the diaspora, Ulysse delivers critical cultural analysis of geopolitics and daily life in a series of dispatches, op-eds and articles on post-quake Haiti. Her complex yet singular aim is to make sense of how the nation and its subjects continue to negotiate sovereignty and being in a world where, according to a Haitian saying, tout moun se moun, men tout moun pa menm (All people are human, but all humans are not the same). This collection contains thirty pieces, most of which were previously published in and on Haitian Times, Huffington Post, Ms Magazine, Ms Blog, NACLA, and other print and online venues. The book is trilingual (English, Kreyòl, and French) and includes a foreword by award-winning author and historian Robin D.G. Kelley.
Earthquake In Haiti
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Author : Julian Vigo Phd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-01-01
Earthquake In Haiti written by Julian Vigo Phd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-01 with categories.
Six weeks after Haiti's 2010 earthquake, onomatopoeically known by Haitians as the "Goudou Goudou," cultural anthropologist and filmmaker, Julian Vigo, went to Port-au-Prince in order to volunteer her skills in the relief efforts. Within three weeks of her arrival in Haiti, Vigo discovered three separate child trafficking schemes-from the illegal adoption schemes of a children's hospital to Haitian NGO entrepreneurs who traffick children across the border of the Dominican Republic to a Haitian clergy member who stands outside the MINUSTAH offices with pictures of children "for sale." Working between permaculture projects, child advocacy NGOs and United Nations agencies such as UNICEF, Julian Vigo chronicles what she witnessed in Haiti's communities, the various UN agencies, the Cluster meetings held between NGOs and UN offices and her work in the field. This book describes the monumental failure of development policies and practices which instead of helping to alleviate misery and poverty are actually instrumental in creating both.
Reproducing Inequities
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Author : M. Catherine Maternowska
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2006
Reproducing Inequities written by M. Catherine Maternowska and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Political Science categories.
Residents of Haiti face a grim reality of starvation, violence, lack of economic opportunity, and minimal health care. For years, aid organizations have unsuccessfully attempted to alleviate the problems by creating health and family planning centers, including one modern (and, by local standards, luxurious) clinic of Cité Soleil. In Reproducing Inequities, M. Catherine Maternowska argues that we too easily overlook the political dynamics that shape choices about family planning. Through a detailed study of the attempt to provide modern contraception in the community of Cité Soleil, Maternowska demonstrates the complex interplay between local and global politics that so often thwarts well-intended policy initiatives.
Bodies Of Knowledge
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Author : Efua Prah
language : en
Publisher: African Sun Media
Release Date : 2021-12-01
Bodies Of Knowledge written by Efua Prah and has been published by African Sun Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-01 with Social Science categories.
Spanning the countries of South Africa, Swaziland, and Ghana, this collection of work brings into focus child and youth experience together as a collage of anthropology, creative writing, poetry, and the fine arts. Woven together by questions related to the political economy of child and youth well-being, identity formation, and the multiple layers through which children articulate their health-narrative, ‘ Bodies of Knowledge’ considers living in and coping with chronic illness, spirit-possession, and death. The growth in Critical Health Humanities and the Arts globally, suggests the desire for blended efforts to draw in a wider breadth of knowledge that cuts across the divided worlds of critical social science and the arts. This book, set in an African context, offers myriad possibilities for cross-disciplinary synergies as learning sites. It is a critical contribution to the field of children and childhood studies.
The Anthropology Of Childhood
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Author : David F. Lancy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-10
The Anthropology Of Childhood written by David F. Lancy and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-10 with Education categories.
Enriched with findings from anthropological scholarship, this book provides a guide to childhood in different cultures, past and present.