Jean Casimir

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Historical sociology. Interested in the history and anthropology of Haiti and other Caribbean islands
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Wilfrid Laurier University

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Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas

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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

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Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos

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Report on CEPAL

Sede Subregional de la CEPAL para el Caribe (Estudios e Investigaciones), 1980

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Caribbean Report 14-01-1993

La suppression de la culture africaine dans l’histoire d’Haïti

Socio-anthropologie, 2000

Dès que l'on parle de la mise en place des sociétés de la Caraïbe, on pense à l'éta blissement de... more Dès que l'on parle de la mise en place des sociétés de la Caraïbe, on pense à l'éta blissement de groupes ethniques de diverses origines dans des sociétés esclavagistes. Aussi est-il surprenant que ces problèmes ne soient pas une préoccupation de l'élite de la région. L'invention de la nation et le destin de ses composantes dont, au premier chef celle, prépondérante, constituée par les Africains, sollicitent rarement l'at tention. Pour éviter ces interpellations et esquiver les conflits dont elles sont porteuses, les intellectuels préfèrent traiter des conflits de classes entre maîtres et esclaves et des questions de couleur soulevées par le colon. A la réception de la Constitution de 1801, que Toussaint Louverture promulgue pour gouverner Saint Domingue, Napoléon lui écrit qu'elle contenait : « (bien des choses) qui sont contraires à la dignité et à la souveraineté du peuple français dont Saint Domingue ne forme qu'une portion. » (L. J. Janvier, 1886 : 23) Dans la réponse de Toussaint, on lit : « Le pouvoir que je tiens a été aussi légitimement acquis que le vôtre, et rien que le voeu prononcé du peuple de Saint Domingue ne me forcera à le quitter. » (L. J. Janvier, 1886 : 24) La suppression de la culture africaine dans l'histoire d'Haïti Socio-anthropologie, 8 | 2000

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The Caribbean: one and divisible

Cuadernos de la CEPAL, 1992

Chapter 1 : INTRODUCTION 7 A systematic effort toward development involves making a proposal for ... more Chapter 1 : INTRODUCTION 7 A systematic effort toward development involves making a proposal for a kind of ideal society. There is need for a utopia. 'Development' responding to the minimum criterion of enhancement of the capacity of the society to function over the long term for the well-being of all its members requires far-reaching changes in the ways in which people relate to each other and to the wider society, represented by the State. Ideally, these changes should be in the direction of a more open, better integrated society, with freer choices and opportunities for voluntary associational ties and voice for all in the composition and policy guidance of local as well as national authorities.'* A rational strategy must therefore be proposed for attaining this standard-setting model, and consideration given, of course, to the actors and to the socio-political groups and forces which will execute this strategy. These three stages of a steady advance towards development-which in fact constitute development planning-derive from two factors mentioned in the paragraph above, namely, knowledge of the social fabric and of its particular evolution and knowledge of the goals of the society as a whole. The present study describes the evolution of the social structures of the Caribbean and points to the existence of a dual process of formulating social objectives: the creóle way of thinking and the local way of thinking. As will be seen from the arguments presented below, it has been impossible to formulate a development plan that does not prolong colonial authoritarianism because the political leaders of the day have had to choose between one or the other set of objectives. In fact, there has been no such choice, as will be seen, because the fact that there is a local way of thinking has not been perceived. Because of this, authoritarianism has not always been sentient. The "common" objectives supposedly pursued through economic planning are not those of the society as a whole. Since this is not understood, the methods of planning are blamed for the scant progress made in the implementation of development plans and programmes. At the same time, negotiations conducted at different paces and according to different rules, produce another set of objectives which the population seeks to attain without any reference to the authorities. The coexistence of a dual set of social objectives frustrates the most well-intentioned planning efforts. Survival strategies become institutionalized and the official policies are either disregarded or are unknown. The "social sectors" planner encounters an insuperable resistance to participation by the popular sector. Social development planning is the architecture of a communication process, a discipline which describes the instruments and systems of communication among institutions, social groups, voluntary associations and pressure or interest groups. Its goal is to ensure a constant flow of information and ideas for decision-making at all levels. The task is, of course, monumental and, when viewed from another angle, must be subdivided. Although it draws on the theories that regard culture as a system of ideas, social development planning leaves the substantive problem of the value of ideas to the philosophers and moralists found among all social scientists, and focuses on the formal aspects of social

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Haïti et ses élites : l'interminable dialogue de sourds

Si depuis deux ans l'occupation étrangère est venue trouver l'élite divisée et fragmentée, retour... more Si depuis deux ans l'occupation étrangère est venue trouver l'élite divisée et fragmentée, retournée contre elle-même, au point qu'il est impossible de la déterminer à une action d'ensemble sur le terrain légal, même à une résistance morale contre l'envahisseur, c'est que l'élite a failli à sa vocation de commandement, c'est qu'elle a failli à sa vocation sociale, c'est enfin que, l'élite s'est rendue indigne de sa mission de représentation et de leadership. Jean Price-Mars 2

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La estructura social incompleta

Pensamiento iberoamericano, 1984

Resisting the Production of Sufferers

University of North Carolina Press eBooks, Oct 19, 2020

This chapter brings together the reflections of theorists of the coloniality of power, including ... more This chapter brings together the reflections of theorists of the coloniality of power, including Anibal Quijano, Walter Mignolo, and Louis Sala-Molins. It looks at the French colonial history of Haiti, beginning with the Code Noire (1685) and ending in the early nineteenth century, from the perspective of indigenous people and bossales rather than Europeans. The chapter seeks to reinstall the Haitians as agents of their own destiny rather than historiographically relegate them to the status of a conquered people. This chapter argues both the colonial and independent administrators operated on a nation rather than within or with the nation.

Slaves or Peasants

University of North Carolina Press eBooks, Oct 19, 2020

This chapter focuses on the legal and social difference between the status of peasant, slave, and... more This chapter focuses on the legal and social difference between the status of peasant, slave, and cultivator in the colony and Republic of Haiti. When property owners tried to replace the word slave, they did not change the character’s role. The rebaptized cultivator was still meant to remain a laborer. When the Haitian oligarchs succeeded the European oligarchy in 1804, there was no significant difference in the treatment of the population.

¿Enseñamos Sociología? by H. Jeannette Abouhamad

Revista Mexicana de Sociología, May 27, 2020

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Viejas naciones y nuevas etnias. Reunion regional de especialistas sobre educacion bicultural y bilingue. Reunion tecnica regional de alfabetizacion y postalfabetizacion (...) crefal, unesco, patzcuaro, mich, mex, dic, 1981

América indígena, 1982

Limitaciones del proyecto nacional de la oligarquia mulata de dominica en el siglo xx

Revista de ciencias sociales (Río Piedras), 1981

... de la oligarquía mulata de dominica en el siglo XX 1 . El poder mulato ... Yvonne Acosta, enc... more

O Haiti e suas elites: o interminável diálogo de surdos

Universitas, Dec 21, 2012

foi elaborado a partir de uma conferencia proferida no Colegio del México, intitulada "Formação e... more foi elaborado a partir de uma conferencia proferida no Colegio del México, intitulada "Formação e Inserção do Haiti na Comunidade Internacional", em 27 de novembro de 2006. Publicado pela Éditions de l'Université d'État d'Haiti, em abril de 2009. Tradução para o português de Renata de Melo Rosa.

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Colonial Thought

University of North Carolina Press eBooks, Oct 19, 2020

The French Revolution challenged the absolutism of royal power and had implications for France’s ... more The French Revolution challenged the absolutism of royal power and had implications for France’s colonial holdings where the authority of the king could not be replaced with the authority of the sovereign people. Actors in colonial society began to express their own social and political projects, all of which maintained their colonist and proslavery nature. The only differences revolved around questions regarding the role of property owners who were the descendants of slaves. The conflicts at the end of the eighteenth century were unable to deal with two key issues: the need for local reproduction of labor and that modern colonial thought could not account for the managerial autonomy of the institutions that emerged from the local reproduction of labor.

An Independent State without a Sovereign People

University of North Carolina Press eBooks, Oct 19, 2020

The formal, visible structure of the public administration in nineteenth-century Haiti was built ... more The formal, visible structure of the public administration in nineteenth-century Haiti was built on the primacy of the colonial plantation, and the administration preserved the plantation’s principles of land use and commercialization of export commodities as guiding principles. Yet the mass of Haitians were able to impose their own popular sovereignty and determine the approach to daily life. This chapter focuses on exploring that popular sovereignty and how it appeared in the midst of the slave plantation as workers distances themselves from the propositions of modern, colonial and postcolonial oligarchs.