"We Know How to Work Together": Konbit, Protest, and the Rejection of INGO Bureaucratic Dominance

Dubuisson, Darlène

doi:10.1353/jhs.2020.0012

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“…As Lyonel indicated, by the mid‐1970s, Port‐au‐Prince had already begun to witness what would become a significant influx of Haitian peasantry (referred to locally as “ moun andeyò ” or “outsiders”), whose agricultural livelihoods had suffered under Duvalier‐era political and economic policies (Beckett 2019; Dubuisson 2020). This massive rural‐to‐urban migration collapsed the “spatial barrier” between country and city and “threatened to collapse the social barriers of difference and distinction too” (Beckett 2019, 30).…”

Section: Internal Exile: Post‐duvalier Intellectual Returnsmentioning

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“There Is a Real Generational Problem in This Country”: Haitian Intellectual Exile and Academic Diaspora Returns

Dubuisson

2023

Transforming Anthropology

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Based on a series of life‐history interviews conducted between 2013 and 2018, this article examines the generational aspects of homecomings, or how location and temporality affect intellectual return and reintegration. The article specifically explores the returns of Haitian intellectual exiles (jenerasyon 86) and the young academic diaspora (jenn doktè) at two would‐be moments of social transformation in Haiti: post‐Duvalier (after 1986) and post‐earthquake (after 2010). First, it discusses how populism and political uprooting (dechoukaj) led to the internal exile or social displacement of jenerasyon 86. Next, it examines academic diaspora returns in the era of the neoliberal university and outlines the intergenerational struggles that emerged between jenerasyon 86 and the jenn doktè. This article argues that generation as both social position and sociohistorical context created divergent experiences of placelessness for returnees and that the lack of intellectual friendship among returnees contributed to their inability to realize their aspirations of social change.

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Section: Internal Exile: Post‐duvalier Intellectual Returnsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“There Is a Real Generational Problem in This Country”: Haitian Intellectual Exile and Academic Diaspora Returns

Dubuisson

2023

Transforming Anthropology

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Building social capital through Konbit for post-disaster recovery: A case study of rural areas in the Xaragua peninsula, Haiti

Versaillot,

Honda

2024

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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"We Know How to Work Together": Konbit, Protest, and the Rejection of INGO Bureaucratic Dominance

Cited by 2 publications

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“There Is a Real Generational Problem in This Country”: Haitian Intellectual Exile and Academic Diaspora Returns

“There Is a Real Generational Problem in This Country”: Haitian Intellectual Exile and Academic Diaspora Returns

Building social capital through Konbit for post-disaster recovery: A case study of rural areas in the Xaragua peninsula, Haiti

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