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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"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of 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.

Author/Creator:

Dubuisson, Darlène Elizabeth , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Reclaiming Haiti's futures: returned intellectuals, placemaking, and radical imagination [by Dubuisson, D.E.]

Related Series:

Critical Caribbean studies

Subjects:

Social change — Haiti — History — 20th century

Social change — Haiti — History — 21st century

Return migrants — Haiti

Haitian diaspora — History — 20th century

Haitian diaspora — History — 21st century

Haiti — History — 20th century

Haiti — History — 21st century

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HN213.5 .D83 2025eb

ISBNs:

9781978837423 (electronic bk.)
1978837429 (electronic bk.)
9781978837409 [Invalid]
1978837402 [Invalid]
9781978837393 [Invalid]
1978837399 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1499910797

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31310569 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp21132475