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Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean: Critical Caribbean Studies

Autor Jennifer Boum Make
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 iul 2025 – vârsta ani
Decolonial Care examines the relationship between the legacies of colonialism and the dynamics of caregiving that have emerged from the French Caribbean. Through a variety of media, including novels, graphic narratives, and curatorial discourse, this book explores four key contexts at the intersection of care and colonialism: care-focused gender roles, domestic service, nurturing human life and environments, and curation as caring. Decolonial Care argues that to imagine caregiving in the context of the French Caribbean means reckoning with intrinsically uncaring practices inherited from colonial rule that show disregard for human life and environments. Putting in dialogue postcolonial studies and care studies, this book elucidates how caring and uncaring have been historically shaped by colonialism, showing how media and narratives about the French Caribbean document the damaging impact of colonialism but also help develop decolonial approaches to care that sustain human life and livable environments.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781978840447
ISBN-10: 1978840446
Pagini: 230
Ilustrații: 8 color images
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Critical Caribbean Studies


Notă biografică

JENNIFER BOUM MAKE is an assistant professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University. 

Cuprins

A note on the cover image
Introduction
1. Curating Silences
2. Voices of the BUMIDOM, or the colonial legacy of care work
3. Inhabiting the Land after Environmental Damage
4. Rebellious care, or deconstructing the myth of the Poto-mitan woman
Coda
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Index

Introduction 1
1. Curating Silences 27
2. Voices of the BUMIDOM, or the Colonial
Legacy of Care Work 57
3. Inhabiting the Land after
Environmental Damage 89
4. Rebellious Care, or Deconstructing the Myth
of the Poto-mitan
Woman
119
Coda 145
Acknowledgments
161
Notes 165
References 187
Notes on Cover Art 201
Index 000

Recenzii

"Boum Make's cultural analyses are persuasive, the illustrations apt, the bibliography inclusive, and the writing accessible. . . . Recommended."

"Thoughtful and thought provoking."

"Renders visible the complexity of caregiving in the context of environmental erosion and plantocratic domination which continue to damage life in Martinique and Guadeloupe in the aftermath of slavery. A major contribution to the field of Caribbean cultural analysis, the book remarkably analyses a variety of contemporary French Caribbean corpuses, from novels to graphic narratives and exhibitions, offering in-depth, close-reading and interdisciplinary analysis that dialogue with each other to complicate the meaning of care and identify decolonial practices of self-care and caring for others."

"Thoroughly researched, convincingly theorized, and audaciously argued, Decolonial Care is a much-needed interdisciplinary exploration of the uncharted intersection of care and colonialism. Jennifer Boum Make's thought-provoking call to rethink decoloniality and care in the French Caribbean through race, gender, class, enslavement, colonialism, migration, and chlordecone poisoning is a tour de force and an act of care."
"In this outstanding, provocative book, Jennifer Boum Make dares to shed light on the entrenched colonial histories and imaginaries of uncaring that continue to shape received ideas and practices of care and caregiving today. By way of deeply researched and attentive readings of literature from the French Caribbean, Decolonial Care is a major contribution to interdisciplinary studies on care, gender, and sexuality, and the environmental humanities."

Descriere

Decolonial Care examines the relationship between the legacies of colonialism and the dynamics of caregiving that have emerged from the French Caribbean. Putting in dialogue postcolonial studies and care studies, this book elucidates how caring and uncaring have been historically shaped by colonialism and shows how media and narratives help develop decolonial approaches to care that sustain human life and livable environments.