Moderno de otro modo. Lecciones caribeñas desde el lugar del salvaje

«Modernidad» es un término turbio perteneciente a la familia de palabras que podemos etiquetar como «universales noratlánticos». Los universales noratlánticos son particulares que han adquirido un grado de universalidad, son pedazos de la historia de la humanidad convertidos en estándares históricos. En este artículo argumenta que en su más común despliegue como un universal noratlántico, la modernidad disfraza y desconoce a los muchos Otros que crea. Se examina entonces cómo desde el Caribe la modernidad nunca fue, y nunca podría ser, lo que dice ser

Le Bleu de l’île. Présentation

Situation historique Au cours des cinquante dernières années, la détérioration de la situation éco­nomique en Haïti a poussé des milliers d’hommes et de femmes à chercher hors des frontières du pays une vie meilleure, qu’il s’agisse de Miami, des Antilles françaises, de la Barbade ou de la République Dominicaine. Une des conséquences des colonisations française et espagnole fut le par­tage de l’île d’Haïti en deux États : la République Dominicaine, à l’est, et la République d’Haïti, à l’ouest..

Growing the Grassroots or Backing Bandits? Dilemmas of Donor Support for Haiti’s (UN)Civil Society

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Returning home: heritage work among the Stl'atl'imx of the Lower Lillooet River Valley

This article focusses on heritage practices in the tensioned landscape of the Stl’atl’imx (pronounced Stat-lee-um) people of the Lower Lillooet River Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Displaced from their traditional territories and cultural traditions through the colonial encounter, they are enacting, challenging and remaking their heritage as part of their long term goal to reclaim their land and return ‘home’. I draw on three examples of their heritage work: graveyard cleaning, the shifting ‘official’/‘unofficial’ heritage of a wagon road, and marshalling of the mountain named Nsvq’ts (pronounced In-SHUCK-ch) in order to illustrate how the past is strategically mobilised in order to substantiate positions in the present. While this paper focusses on heritage in an Indigenous and postcolonial context, I contend that the dynamics of heritage practices outlined here are applicable to all heritage practices

At the Service of Community Development: The Professionalization of Volunteer Work in Kenya and Tanzania

This article explores the changing nature of the “volunteer” as an official role within health and development interventions in East Africa. Contemporary development interventions require the engagement of volunteers to act as links between project and community. This role is increasingly professionalized within development architectures with implications for the kinds of people who can engage in volunteering opportunities. Volunteers in development interventions are likely to be drawn from public sector staff and from educated youth seeking access to positions of paid employment. Volunteering as a formal status within the organization of development programs is recognized as a kind of professional work by those seeking to engage with development organizations. Volunteers perform important work in linking development programs with beneficiaries. At the same time, volunteering provides opportunities for personal transformation

Utopian Archives, Decolonial Affordances: Introduction to Special Issue

Colonial archives constituted a technology that enabled the collection, storage, ordering, retrieval and exchange of knowledge as an instrument of colonial governance. It is not surprising that when such archives were inherited by independent nation-states they were not given the authority previously granted them and have often been neglected. What, then, is the future of colonial archives in postcolonial nations? How should we rethink these archives in relation to decolonial futures? This essay introduces a collection of articles that explore the repertoires of action latent in archives and how colonial archives are being reconfigured to imagine decolonial futures