Decolonial Care

Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean

Jennifer Boum Make (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

206 Seiten

2025
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-4045-4 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

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 that bring into focus 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 first aims to elucidate how caring and uncaring have been historically shaped by colonialism. It then shows how media and narratives about the French Caribbean document the damaging impact of colonialism, but also how they help develop decolonial approaches to care that sustain human life and livable environments.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	Critical Caribbean Studies
Zusatzinfo	8 color images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-4045-4 / 1978840454
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-4045-4 / 9781978840454
Zustand	Neuware