Valerie Kaussen
Biographic Data
| ID | 2153646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Kaussen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaussen |
| SIGNATURE | KAUSSEN V |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Do It Yourself
Additional informationNotes on contributorsValerie KaussenValerie Kaussen is Associate Professor of French and Film Studies at the University of Missouri. She would like to thank Leonard Doyle and the staff of the IOM Communications unit for their openness and generosity. This article is an excerpt from Tectonic Shifts: Haiti Since the Earthquake, a collection of essays forthcoming in January 2012 from KumarianPress, edited by Mark Schuller and N…
States of Exception—Haiti's IDP Camps
According to the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, camps—for example, concentration camps, refugee camps, and internally displaced persons (IDP) camps—risk replacing nation-states as the most representative political spaces of our time. Agamben's definition of "the camp" includes extra-judicial detention centers such as Guantánamo Bay; airport hotels that hold would-be immigrants awaiting deportation; the marginalized, segregated outskirts of …
Violence and Methodology
This article analyzes the topic of dictatorship, political violence, and popular struggle in two recent works that treat the rise and fall of former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide: Alex Dupuy's The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti and Peter Hallward's Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment. In discussing these works, I interrogate the extent to which tradition…
Slaves, Viejos , and the Internationale
This article analyzes the depiction of contact and revolutionary politics in Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée (1944). While this novel is often interpreted as participating in a narrow cultural nationalism, I show the ways that Roumain, in fact, represents a liberatory internationalism that connects the demands of Haiti's rural populace to the larger context of the Marxist-influenced decolonization struggles of the World War Two era. Rev…
States of Exception—Haiti's IDP Camps
According to the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, camps—for example, concentration camps, refugee camps, and internally displaced persons (IDP) camps—risk replacing nation-states as the most representative political spaces of our time. Agamben's definition of "the camp" includes extra-judicial detention centers such as Guantánamo Bay; airport hotels that hold would-be immigrants awaiting deportation; the marginalized, segregated outskirts of …
Violence and Methodology
This article analyzes the topic of dictatorship, political violence, and popular struggle in two recent works that treat the rise and fall of former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide: Alex Dupuy's The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti and Peter Hallward's Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment. In discussing these works, I interrogate the extent to which tradition…
Slaves, Viejos , and the Internationale
This article analyzes the depiction of contact and revolutionary politics in Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée (1944). While this novel is often interpreted as participating in a narrow cultural nationalism, I show the ways that Roumain, in fact, represents a liberatory internationalism that connects the demands of Haiti's rural populace to the larger context of the Marxist-influenced decolonization struggles of the World War Two era. Rev…
Violence and Methodology
This article analyzes the topic of dictatorship, political violence, and popular struggle in two recent works that treat the rise and fall of former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide: Alex Dupuy's The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti and Peter Hallward's Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment. In discussing these works, I interrogate the extent to which tradition…
Do It Yourself
Additional informationNotes on contributorsValerie KaussenValerie Kaussen is Associate Professor of French and Film Studies at the University of Missouri. She would like to thank Leonard Doyle and the staff of the IOM Communications unit for their openness and generosity. This article is an excerpt from Tectonic Shifts: Haiti Since the Earthquake, a collection of essays forthcoming in January 2012 from KumarianPress, edited by Mark Schuller and N…
States of Exception—Haiti's IDP Camps
According to the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, camps—for example, concentration camps, refugee camps, and internally displaced persons (IDP) camps—risk replacing nation-states as the most representative political spaces of our time. Agamben's definition of "the camp" includes extra-judicial detention centers such as Guantánamo Bay; airport hotels that hold would-be immigrants awaiting deportation; the marginalized, segregated outskirts of …
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (1 work) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (1 work) · Democracy (1 work) · Deportation (1 work)