Decolonial Care
Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean
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Jennifer Boum-Maké's Decolonial Care examines how colonialism has shaped caregiving dynamics in the French Caribbean and explores possibilities for reimagining care.
The book places postcolonial studies in conversation with care studies to trace how caregiving has been structured by oppression and how narratives and media can model decolonial forms of care.
Boum-Maké analyzes a broad corpus—novels, graphic narratives, memoirs, and curatorial projects—to show both distorted, violent forms of care and emergent practices of repair.
Chapters address curation and archival silences, state-sponsored migration and domestic work, environmental damage and communal repair, and gendered expectations exemplified by the potomiton figure.
The work argues for reorienting attention toward those subjected to oppressive care and for using cultural texts to imagine reparative, collective care practices.
The book places postcolonial studies in conversation with care studies to trace how caregiving has been structured by oppression and how narratives and media can model decolonial forms of care.
Boum-Maké analyzes a broad corpus—novels, graphic narratives, memoirs, and curatorial projects—to show both distorted, violent forms of care and emergent practices of repair.
Chapters address curation and archival silences, state-sponsored migration and domestic work, environmental damage and communal repair, and gendered expectations exemplified by the potomiton figure.
The work argues for reorienting attention toward those subjected to oppressive care and for using cultural texts to imagine reparative, collective care practices.
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Jennifer Boum Make, "Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
