Browsing by Subject "Haiti"

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    Decoloniality and The Politics of Living Haiti: Writing Haiti With Haitian Women
    (2021-04) Pierre, Beaudelaine
    The Lakou is traditionally viewed as a movement of resistance by former slaves in response to pressures to return to the plantation in post-slavery Haiti. This dissertation engages with the Haitian Lakou as a creolized-decolonial feminist praxis that acknowledges first-hand the embedded, multilayered, and historical dimension of violence of contemporary and historical projects of colonialism on Haitian women’s lives. From Haitian women's storied lives, Haitian lifeworlds hold differentiated, oppositional, and intersectional world-making technologies and praxis of survival that stand as alternative ecologies in the transnational landscape of today. Working at the intersection of postcolonial literature, Indigenous studies, Afro-Caribbean philosophy and literature, and transnational decolonial feminist scholarship, this dissertation postulates that the way to write against and ultimately undo long-standing colonial dynamics and processes in Haitian lives is to uphold Haitian women’s storied lives from their own ecologies, aesthetics, imaginaries, and lifeworlds. To that end, grappling with how Haitian women negotiate the nation engages a phenomenological and onto-epistemological decolonial labor that rethinks the nature of subjectivity, politics, and worlds in uneven and unjust geographies. Ultimately, how Haitian women re-write the nation is a decolonial labor that bridges the gap between the known and the unknown, the seen and the unseen, the metaphysical and the material, the human and the non-human. What emerges is a vision of the decolonial project worked across a shared transnational, intergenerational, multitemporal, human and non-human worlds in relation.
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    Global displacements : geographies of work and industrial restructuring in the Dominican Republic.
    (2010-02) Traub-Werner, Marion
    Many accounts of the globalization of production in the late 20th and early 21st centuries focus on the boom of new foreign direct investment in so-called global factories in the global South. Global Displacements shifts the focus of academic inquiry to an equally pervasive moment of transnational capitalist production: the collapse of labourintensive employment strategies and the restructuring of spatial and social divisions of labour in their wake. Drawing on ethnographic methods and historical accounts of economic change in the Dominican Republic’s northern Cibao region, I consider the restructuring of the country’s export apparel industry, the most long-standing and successful in the circum-Caribbean. Over the past decade, facing increased competition for US market share and a new regime of trade regulation without global quotas, garment firms in the Dominican Republic undertook a process of restructuring, including the retrenchment of the majority of the country’s garment workforce. I explore this process from the perspective of four sociospatial locations: Dominican firms integrated into transnational production assemblages, the embodied labour geographies of former garment workers, the layered histories of accumulation and disinvestment of the Cibao region and its border with Haiti, and my own position as a researcher. Bringing the insights of deconstruction and Marxist and feminist theory to bare on a critical ethnography of industrial restructuring, I examine geographies of production as constituted by displacements: that is, the complex mechanism of inclusion in and exclusion from circuits of capital accumulation that reproduce subjects and places with difference. My study of displacements in the Dominican Republic illustrates how accumulation proceeds through the reproduction of hierarchies of labour, premised upon reworking the violent abstractions of race, gender and nation along existing and new spatial contours of profit-making and disinvestment. Geographies of work and industrial restructuring in the Dominican Republic reveal problematic assumptions that lie behind much contemporary analysis of industrial change. Many accounts frame global industrial restructuring since the 1970s as a process of outward capitalist expansion, incorporating new places and new subjects into transnational labour processes. Such a framing reduces complex, nonlinear experiences of industrial transformation to a teleological sequence, where industrialization serves a marker of “development,” signifying a measure of one’s closeness or distance from Eurocentric modernity. By decentering teleological assumptions of industrialization, the geography of displacements presented in the following pages demonstrates industrial restructuring to be an on-going reworking of industrial and deindustrial processes irreducible to fixed and sequential categories of the postindustrial, newly industrializing, or so-called developing worlds.
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    Intra-household differences in the reported experiences of elementary and middle school-aged orphans when compared with co-resident non-orphans in Haitian households
    (2014-12) Olson, Kjersti Ann
    There is continued concern that orphans may experience additional risks and disadvantages across multiple domains when compared with non-orphans. The concern for orphan vulnerability extends to differential treatment in the households where orphans reside. This exploratory study assesses if the Haitian households that care for elementary and middle school-aged orphans and co-resident non-orphans treat children differently based on their orphan status. It seeks to understand if, and to what extent, orphan care-giving family characteristics such as household, head of household, and child characteristics moderate intra-household experiences between orphans and co-resident non-orphans to impact orphans' mosquito net usage, years reported attending school, hours spent fetching water or wood, and hours spent performing domestic household work. Secondary data analysis of the 2012 DHS survey in Haiti was conducted. Six hundred ten households with elementary and middle school-aged orphans and co-resident non-orphans were analyzed for intra-household differences through matched pairs t-test, multivariate analysis of covariance, and univariate analysis of covariance. The findings indicate that there are intra-household differences in the reported experiences of orphans when compared to their co-resident non-orphans for mosquito net usage, years attended school, hours spent fetching water or wood, and hours spent performing domestic household work. However, the amount of intra-household difference between orphans and co-resident non-orphans is minimal and should be interpreted with caution. The findings suggest that different combinations of household size, household wealth, orphan gender, and an orphan's relatedness to their head of household can predict intra-household differences for reported mosquito net usage, years attended school, and hours spent performing domestic household work. No factors in the present study could predict differences in hours spent fetching water or wood. Moderating variables explained very little about intra-household differences. Although the findings of this study do not offer clear implications for policy or practice, implications for further assessment of intra-household differences and family functioning in international settings and in Haiti are specifically discussed.
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    No Time for Poverty Project
    (Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 2012-12-11) Kañevsky, Dario; Schneekloth, Erica