IRIS NRC is proud to co-sponsor the EPS Network for International and Comparative Education’s Fall series. We hope that you join us for the first of five events: “Reclaiming Haiti’s Futures: Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination,” with Darlène Dubuisson.
Reclaiming Haiti’s Futures follows two generations of Haitian scholars who returned home aftercrises to drive social change. The first generation, “jenerasyon 86,” fled during the Duvalier dictatorship and returned to participate in the democratic transition. The younger “jenn doktè” generation returned after the 2010 earthquake to contribute to national reconstruction through higher education reforma. The book delves into how these scholars resisted coloniality’s fractures and displacements and navigated the neoliberal university system and global knowledge economy by working toward and creating inhabitability or future-oriented places of belonging through improvisation, rasanblaj (assembly), and radical imagination.
About Darlène Dubuisson
Darlène Dubuisson received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in October 2020. Her research interests and teaching span political and legal anthropology, activist and engaged anthropology, Black feminist anthropology, Black intellectual histories, migration, transnational studies, and speculative fiction and visual culture. Her work weaves analyses of Black radicalism, feminism, social and political movements, imagination, migration and diaspora, and crises and futures. Her primary geographic focus is the Caribbean and Latin America.
