ABSTRACT

In post-disaster societies, critical events intensify diasporic engagements. This article examines the diaspora as a category of practice that mobilizes energies in furtherance of revitalizing Haiti’s oft-neglected higher education sector. With rebuilding efforts dependent upon international assistance, the diaspora emerges as an important actor that engages national and international entities in shaping that agenda. Hence, the research question posed here: How has diaspora engagement in higher education influenced institutional capacity for recovery and reconstruction in post-disaster Haiti? Conceptualizing the 2010 earthquake as a threshold event that has reconfigured Haitian society and drawing on a post-structuralist notion of power, this article analyzes contexts of engagement where the diaspora negotiated their cultural understanding of higher education with local practices, within larger competing national and transnational power dynamics. These new opportunities for engagement created conditions for the diaspora to move higher education from the margins of national development to the post-disaster rebuilding agenda.

摘要

在灾后社会，重大事件加剧了侨民的参与。本文将侨民视为一种动员能量以促进振兴海地经常被忽视的高等教育部门的实践。由于重建工作依赖于国际援助，侨民成为一个重要的参与者，让国家和国际实体参与制定这一议程。因此，这里提出的研究问题是：侨民参与高等教育如何影响海地灾后恢复和重建的机构能力？本文将 2010 年地震概念化为重塑海地社会的临界事件，并借鉴后结构主义权力概念，分析了海外侨民在更大的国家和跨国竞争中，与当地实践协商对高等教育的文化理解的参与背景。权力动态。这些新的参与机会为侨民将高等教育从国家发展的边缘转移到灾后重建议程创造了条件。