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This book recuperates the important history that Haitian thought around Vodou possession has had in French critical theory.

Vodou --- Spirit possession --- Possession, Spirit --- Experience (Religion) --- Haitian studies --- French critical theory --- postcolonial theory --- possession --- dispossession --- self-possession --- pathology --- healing, braiding intellectual histories --- nationhood --- citizenship --- personhood --- pathologizing and a 'Western' intellectual history of possession --- 'unhappiness' as taboo --- anthropology --- psychology --- the disciplining of 'possession' --- secularizing possession --- revolution --- Breton's 'Haitian lectures' --- Leiris's 'lived theater' --- possession as the autobiography of the conscious and unconscious --- Brazil --- Herskovits --- Métraux --- anthropology and human rights --- Verger --- Bataille's 'Tears of Eros' --- Hollier's dispossessed intellectuals and Vodou thought --- biopolitical order --- de Certeau --- Michel Foucault --- Judith Butler --- Athena Athanasiou --- Franco-American ethnography --- Duvalier --- Vodou in Depestre's 'Hadriana dans tous mes rêves' --- 'A New World Mediterranean' --- the West's obsession with defining art --- aesthetic-empirical order of things --- Frankétienne --- Glissant --- 'Hadriana's' Realpolitik --- self-repossession --- the dispossessed --- subjectivities --- Jean-Claude Fignole's and Kettly Mars's novels --- 'un-becoming' racial --- 'AubeTranquille' --- possession as fluidity --- neoliberal order --- 'L'Heure hybride' --- 'Aux frontieres de la soif' --- transatlantic and hemispheric atlantic thought --- France --- Haiti --- the United States

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This collection of essays considers the means and extent of Haiti's 'exceptionalization' - its perception in multiple arenas as definitively unique with respect not only to the countries of the North Atlantic, but also to the rest of the Americas. Painted as repulsive and attractive, abject and resilient, singular and exemplary, Haiti has long been framed discursively by an extraordinary epistemological ambivalence. This nation has served at once as cautionary tale, model for humanitarian aid and development projects and point of origin for general theorising of the so-called Third World. What to make of this dialectic of exemplarity and alterity? How to pull apart this multivalent narrative in order to examine its constituent parts? Conscientiously gesturing to James Clifford's The Predicament of Culture (1988), the contributors to The Haiti Exception work on the edge of multiple disciplines, notably that of anthropology, to take up these and other such questions from a variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives, including Africana Studies, Anthrohistory, Art History, Black Studies, Caribbean Studies, education, ethnology, Jewish Studies, Literary Studies, Performance Studies and Urban Studies. As contributors revise and interrogate their respective praxes, they accept the challenge of thinking about the particular stakes of and motivations for their own commitment to Haiti.

Ethnology --- Haiti --- Ayiti --- Bohio --- Haichi --- Hayti --- Haytian Republic --- Quisqueya --- Repiblik Ayiti --- Repiblik d Ayiti --- Republic of Haiti --- République d'Haïti --- ハイチ --- هايتي --- Гаити --- Gaiti --- Saint-Domingue --- Civilization. --- Historiography. --- History.

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"The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories is an essay collection made up of two sections; in the first, a group of Anglophone and francophone scholars examines the roots, effects and implications of the major social upheaval that shook Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Réunion in February and March of 2009. They clearly demonstrate the critical role played by community activism, art and media to combat politico-economic policies that generate (un)employment, labor exploitation, and unattended health risks, all made secondary to the supremacy of profit. In the second section, additional scholars provide in-depth analyses of the ways in which an insistence on capital accumulation and centralization instantiated broad hierarchies of market-driven profit, capital accumulation, and economic exploitation upon a range of populations and territories in the wider non-sovereign and nominally sovereign Caribbean from Haiti to the Dutch Antilles to Puerto Rico, reinforcing the racialized patterns of socioeconomic exclusion and privatization long imposed by France on its former colonial territories"--

Economic History --- Business & Economics --- Economic history --- Business & economics

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