"This book offers a critical anthropological perspective on contemporary childhood in Haiti. It is based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork carried out over a period of 13 years with vulnerable children in Haiti. Diane M. Hoffman raises important questions about how interventions by well-me...

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1. Verfasser:	Hoffman, Diane M. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	Undetermined
Veröffentlicht:	London Bloomsbury Academic 2024
Schriftenreihe:	Bloomsbury collections
Schlagworte:	Entwicklungshilfe Kind Haiti
Online-Zugang:	DE-12 URL des Erstveröffentlichers
Zusammenfassung:	"This book offers a critical anthropological perspective on contemporary childhood in Haiti. It is based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork carried out over a period of 13 years with vulnerable children in Haiti. Diane M. Hoffman raises important questions about how interventions by well-meaning foreigners and ‘white saviours’ often misrepresent Haitian culture and society as deficient, while privileging their own emotions alongside supposedly universal ideas about children that reinforce their own power to define and intervene in Haitian lives. She argues for a new approach to Haitian childhood that centers children's informal learning and self-education alongside indigenous spirituality and constructions of personhood that can resist the hegemony of neo-colonial and neo-liberal forces. Instead of representing the country and its children as a place of "problems to be solved," the book shows the importance prioritizing aspects of Haitian world-views in order to develop a more culturally-informed understanding of childhood in Haiti that can support genuine social change."
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (240 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781350321366 9781350321342 9781350321359
DOI:	10.5040/9781350321366