Overview
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 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 document the damaging impact of colonialism, but also how they help develop decolonial approaches to care that sustain human life and livable environments.
Full Product Details
Author: Jennifer Boum Make
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781978840454
ISBN 10: 1978840454
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 15 July 2025
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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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""
Author Information
JENNIFER BOUM MAKE is an assistant professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University.
