Decolonial care reimagining caregiving in the French Caribbean / Jennifer Boum Make.
| Author/creator | Boum Make, Jennifer, 1990 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2025] |
| Description | vii, 213 pages illustrations 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Series | Critical Caribbean studies |
| Contents | Introduction -- Curating silences -- Voices of the BUMIDOM, or, The colonial legacy of care work -- Inhabiting the land after environmental damage -- Rebellious care, or, Deconstructing the myth of the Poto-mitan woman -- Coda. |
| Abstract | "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 (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 not only document the damaging impact of colonialism, but also how they help develop decolonial approaches to care that sustain human life and livable environments"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024049535 |
| ISBN | 9781978840447 paperback |
| ISBN | 9781978840454 hardcover |
| ISBN | epub |
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