The Haiti Exception
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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.
Haiti Exception
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Author : Mark Schuller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Haiti Exception written by Mark Schuller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
The Haiti Exception
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Author : Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-01
The Haiti Exception written by Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
A collection of essays from international critics that 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.
Haiti For The Haitians
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Author : Brandon R. Byrd
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-01
Haiti For The Haitians written by Brandon R. Byrd and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-01 with Political Science categories.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. The world-historical significance of the Haitian Revolution is now firmly established in mainstream history. Yet Haiti’s nineteenth-century has yet to receive its due, this despite independent Haiti’s vital importance as the first nation to permanently ban slavery and its ongoing struggle for sovereignty in the Atlantic World. Louis-Joseph Janvier (1855–1911) is one of the foremost Haitian intellectuals and diplomats of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His prolific oeuvre offered enduring challenges to racist slanders of Haiti and critiques of the global inequalities that arose from European colonialism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Through his writings, Janvier influenced the international debates about slavery, race, nation, and empire that shaped his era and, in many ways, remain unresolved today. Arguably his most powerful work, Haiti for the Haitians (1884) provides a searing critique of European and U.S. imperialism, predatory finance capitalism, and Haiti’s domestic politics. It offers his vision of Haiti’s future expressed through a remarkable phrase: Haiti for the Haitians. Haiti for the Haitians is the first major English translation of Janvier. Accompanied by an introduction, annotations, and an interdisciplinary collection of critical essays, this volume offers unprecedented access to this vital Haitian thinker and an important contribution to the scholarship on Haiti’s nineteenth century.
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.
Island Futures
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Author : Mimi Sheller
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-16
Island Futures written by Mimi Sheller and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-16 with Social Science categories.
In Island Futures Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time of climate catastrophe. Drawing on fieldwork on postearthquake reconstruction in Haiti, flooding on the Haitian-Dominican border, and recent hurricanes, Sheller shows how ecological vulnerability and the quest for a "just recovery" in the Caribbean emerge from specific transnational political, economic, and cultural dynamics. Because foreigners are largely ignorant of Haiti's political, cultural, and economic contexts, especially the historical role of the United States, their efforts to help often exacerbate inequities. Caribbean survival under ever-worsening environmental and political conditions, Sheller contends, demands radical alternatives to the pervasive neocolonialism, racial capitalism, and US military domination that have perpetuated what she calls the "coloniality of climate." Sheller insists that alternative projects for Haitian reconstruction, social justice, and climate resilience—and the sustainability of the entire region—must be grounded in radical Caribbean intellectual traditions that call for deeper transformations of transnational economies, ecologies, and human relations writ large.
Spirit Possession In French Haitian And Vodou Thought
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Author : Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2014-11-12
Spirit Possession In French Haitian And Vodou Thought written by Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book recuperates the important history that Haitian thought around Vodou possession has had in French critical theory. The author takes the period of the 1930s and ‘40s, as the centerfold of a more complex network of relations that places Haiti as one of the pivots of a more expanded intellectual conversation around “possession,” which links anthropology, literature, psychoanalysis, human rights, and visual arts in France, Haiti, and the United States. Benedicty argues that Haiti as the anthropological other serves as a kick-starter to an entire French-based theoretical apparatus (Breton, Leiris, Bataille, de Certeau, Foucault, and Butler), but once up and running, its role as catalyst is forgotten and the multiple iterations of the anthropological other are cast back into the net of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s “Savage slot.” The book offers the reader unfamiliar with Haiti a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of twentieth and early twenty-first century Haitian thought, including a detailed timeline of important moments in the intellectual history that connects Haiti to France and the United States. The first part of the book is about global dispossessions in the first decades of the twentieth century; the second part points to how the narratives of ‘Haiti’ are intimately linked to a Franco-U.S.-American discursive space, constructed over the course of the twentieth century, a discursive order that has conflated the representation of ‘Haiti’ with an understanding of Vodou primarily as an occult religion, and not as a philosophical system. The third and fourth parts of the book examine how the novels of René Depestre, Jean-Claude Fignolé, and Kettly Mars have revisited the notion of possession since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorships.
Public Papers Of The Presidents Of The United States
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Author : United States. President
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Public Papers Of The Presidents Of The United States written by United States. President and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Electronic journals categories.
"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Boats Borders And Bases
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Author : Jenna M. Loyd
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2018-03-09
Boats Borders And Bases written by Jenna M. Loyd and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-09 with Social Science categories.
Discussions about U.S. migration policing have traditionally focused on enforcement along the highly charged U.S.-Mexico boundary. Enforcement practices such as detention policies designed to restrict access to asylum also transpire in the Caribbean. Boats, Borders, and Bases tells a missing, racialized history of the U.S. migration detention system that was developed and expanded to deter Haitian and Cuban migrants. Jenna M. Loyd and Alison Mountz argue that the U.S. response to Cold War Caribbean migrations established the legal and institutional basis for contemporary migration detention and border-deterrent practices in the United States. This book will make a significant contribution to a fuller understanding of the history and geography of the United States’s migration detention system.
Chronotropics
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Author : Odile Ferly
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-01-13
Chronotropics written by Odile Ferly and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book deconstructs androcentric approaches to spacetime inherited from western modernity through its theoretical frame of the chronotropics. It sheds light on the literary acts of archival disruption, radical remapping, and epistemic marronnage by twenty-first-century Caribbean women writers to restore a connection to spacetime, expanding it within and beyond the region. Arguing that the chronotropics points to a vocation for social justice and collective healing, this pan-Caribbean volume returns to autochthonous ontologies and epistemologies to propose a poetics and politics of the chronotropics that is anticolonial, gender inclusive, pluralistic, and non-anthropocentric. This is an open access book.