A Critical Anthropology of Childhood in Haiti
eBook - ePub

A Critical Anthropology of Childhood in Haiti

Emotion, Power, and White Saviors

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Critical Anthropology of Childhood in Haiti

Emotion, Power, and White Saviors

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Dedication
  5. Title
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Note on Translation
  9. Introduction: Toward a Critical Anthropology of Childhood in Haiti
  10. 1 Pouring Love In: Emotion, Power, and White Saviorism in Haitian Childhood
  11. 2 Learning to See
  12. 3 ā€œThese Are My Children!ā€: White Love and Child Rescue in Haiti
  13. 4 Becoming Someone: Personhood and Education among Haitiā€™s Marginalized Children
  14. 5 Bringing Them ā€œHomeā€: Children and the Remaking of Family in Haiti
  15. 6 The Sensorium: Embodied Being and Learning in Childrenā€™s Everyday Experience
  16. 7 Beyond Trauma: Caring, Relating and Belonging in Childrenā€™s Lives
  17. 8 Practicing Hope: Movement, Personhood, and Survivance in Haitian Childhoods
  18. 9 From Doing Good to Good Doing: Haiti, Childhood, and an Anthropological Praxis for the Future
  19. Notes
  20. References
  21. Index
  22. Copyright