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Decolonial Care
Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean
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Jennifer Boum Make
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
JENNIFER BOUM MAKE is an assistant professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University.
Reviews
"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."— John Patrick Walsh, author of Migration and Refuge: An Eco-Archive of Haitian Literature
"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."— Anny-Dominique Curtius, author of Suzanne Césaire: Archéologie littéraire et artistique d’une mémoire empêchée [Suzanne Césa
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eBook published on:
June 12, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781978840478
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
206
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8 color images
eBook ISBN:
9781978840478
Keywords for this book
Decolonial Care; colonialism; caregiving; French Caribbean; care values; attentiveness; responsibility; nurturance; responsiveness; sustaining life; reproducing life; undervalued care; invisible care; kinship; gender; race; class; uncaring practices; colonial rule; uneven caregiving; denial of care; marginalized peoples; marginalized environments; novels; graphic novels; curatorial work; Black Models exhibit; Ge´ricault to Matisse; Jennifer Boum Make; narratives of colonialism; decolonial approaches; human life; livable environments; North American contexts; European contexts; postcolonial present; reimagining care
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