Jennifer Boum-Maké
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University and author of Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean (Rutgers UP, 2025); scholar of Caribbean literature, care studies, and decolonial methodologies.
Best podcasts with Jennifer Boum-Maké
Ranked by the Snipd community
Mar 4, 2026 • 50min
Jennifer Boum Make, "Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
Jennifer Boum-Maké, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown, explores decolonial approaches to caregiving in the French Caribbean. She discusses how colonial legacies shape care, literary and visual strategies that resist erasure, the gendered burdens of migration and domestic labor, and how fiction and repair imaginaries reimagine collective healing.
