When Crisis Is Experienced as Continuity. Materialities of Time in Haiti

• Autores: Erin B. Taylor
• Localización: Ethnologie française, ISSN 0046-2616, Vol. 44, Nº. 3, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Temps biographiques et discontinuités politiques), págs. 491-502
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper explores various ways in which time is experienced and practiced by Haitians living on the Dominican-Haitian border. By examining different kinds of temporal practices and viewpoints, the author questions the assumption that the earthquake of January 2010 has brought a significant break with the past and shows that rather than an isolated and unique rupture, crisis is a relatively constant feature of historical experience. The ways that people communicate their biographies and imagine their futures reflect this temporal continuity.