Erica Caple James
Biographic Data
| ID | 150754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erica Caple James |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erica Caple |
| FAMILY NAME | James |
| SIGNATURE | JAMES E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Matter of Black Lives
This article suggests that recent disputes over the preservation of public monuments typically commemorating “great men” of history (alongside similar artifacts of the built environment) are just one aspect of spatial politics requiring greater scholarly analysis. Contests over the material commemoration of historical figures in civic spaces must also be assessed in relation to the everyday decisions public and private actors make during the desi…
Life at the Center
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Life at the Center , Erica Caple James traces how faith-based and secular institutions in Boston have helped Haitian refugees and immigrants attain economic independence, health, security, and citizenship in the United States. Using the concept of "corporate Catholicism," James…
There Is No More Haiti
Reviewed by: There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince by Greg Beckett Erica Caple James Greg Beckett. There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 312 pp. Greg Beckett. There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 312 pp. In this ethnography, researched during intermittent periods of fie…
Haunting Ghosts
Witchcraft, Bureaucraft, and the Social Life of (Us)aid in Haiti
In this article I discuss the unintended consequences of humanitarian and development assistance provided to "victims of human rights abuses" in Haiti in the years following the restoration of democracy in 1994. Such targeted aid was a component of international political and economic development aid intended to facilitate the nation's postconflict transition. I argue that in much the same manner that witchcraft discourses signify moral struggles…
Haiti, Insecurity, and the Politics of Asylum
In this article, I seek to show how states of insecurity provoked by ongoing social, economic, and political ruptures in Haiti can disorder individual subjectivity and generate the flight of individuals seeking asylum within and across borders. Nongovernmental actors working in Haiti and with Haitians in the diaspora frequently managed the long-term psychosocial effects of insecurity. Their interventions can range from repressive to compassionate…
Ruptures, rights, and repair
Neomodern Insecurity in Haiti and the Politics of Asylum
Haunting Ghosts
This chapter describes the harsh Haitian world of insecurity, fear, and collective anxiety in a profoundly disordered state, relating the story of Danielle, who sought justice from the police for the murders of her husband and sons in the mid-1990s, and analyzing the complexities of the geography of trauma, fear, and insecurity. It highlights the fragility of Haiti's political and civil institutions and processes, and criticizes the international…
The Political Economy of ‘Trauma’ in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity
Witchcraft, Bureaucraft, and the Social Life of (Us)aid in Haiti
In this article I discuss the unintended consequences of humanitarian and development assistance provided to "victims of human rights abuses" in Haiti in the years following the restoration of democracy in 1994. Such targeted aid was a component of international political and economic development aid intended to facilitate the nation's postconflict transition. I argue that in much the same manner that witchcraft discourses signify moral struggles…
Ruptures, rights, and repair
Haiti, Insecurity, and the Politics of Asylum
In this article, I seek to show how states of insecurity provoked by ongoing social, economic, and political ruptures in Haiti can disorder individual subjectivity and generate the flight of individuals seeking asylum within and across borders. Nongovernmental actors working in Haiti and with Haitians in the diaspora frequently managed the long-term psychosocial effects of insecurity. Their interventions can range from repressive to compassionate…
Neomodern Insecurity in Haiti and the Politics of Asylum
The Political Economy of ‘Trauma’ in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity
Haunting Ghosts
This chapter describes the harsh Haitian world of insecurity, fear, and collective anxiety in a profoundly disordered state, relating the story of Danielle, who sought justice from the police for the murders of her husband and sons in the mid-1990s, and analyzing the complexities of the geography of trauma, fear, and insecurity. It highlights the fragility of Haiti's political and civil institutions and processes, and criticizes the international…
Neomodern Insecurity in Haiti and the Politics of Asylum
Ruptures, rights, and repair
Haiti, Insecurity, and the Politics of Asylum
In this article, I seek to show how states of insecurity provoked by ongoing social, economic, and political ruptures in Haiti can disorder individual subjectivity and generate the flight of individuals seeking asylum within and across borders. Nongovernmental actors working in Haiti and with Haitians in the diaspora frequently managed the long-term psychosocial effects of insecurity. Their interventions can range from repressive to compassionate…
Witchcraft, Bureaucraft, and the Social Life of (Us)aid in Haiti
In this article I discuss the unintended consequences of humanitarian and development assistance provided to "victims of human rights abuses" in Haiti in the years following the restoration of democracy in 1994. Such targeted aid was a component of international political and economic development aid intended to facilitate the nation's postconflict transition. I argue that in much the same manner that witchcraft discourses signify moral struggles…
Haunting Ghosts
There Is No More Haiti
Reviewed by: There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince by Greg Beckett Erica Caple James Greg Beckett. There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 312 pp. Greg Beckett. There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 312 pp. In this ethnography, researched during intermittent periods of fie…
Life at the Center
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Life at the Center , Erica Caple James traces how faith-based and secular institutions in Boston have helped Haitian refugees and immigrants attain economic independence, health, security, and citizenship in the United States. Using the concept of "corporate Catholicism," James…
The Matter of Black Lives
This article suggests that recent disputes over the preservation of public monuments typically commemorating “great men” of history (alongside similar artifacts of the built environment) are just one aspect of spatial politics requiring greater scholarly analysis. Contests over the material commemoration of historical figures in civic spaces must also be assessed in relation to the everyday decisions public and private actors make during the desi…
Politics (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (6 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)