Reclaiming Haiti’s Futures: Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination

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Black and white photo of Dr. Darlène DubuissonDr. Darlène Dubuisson will speak about her book Reclaiming Haiti’s Futures: Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination. Her book follows two generations of Haitian scholars who returned home after crises 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.

Dr. 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.

This talk will be a part of the Network for International and Comparative Education (N.I.C.E.) Speaker Series and you can register for it at go.wisc.edu/nice2024.