Beaudelaine Pierre’s academic and creative journey explores questions of relational ontologies through the lenses of Afro Caribbean philosophy and of feminist theory. Her dissertation, The Politics of Living Haiti, engages with Haiti as sites of distinctiveness emerging from and participating in webs of multiple, competing, and entangled hegemonic and non-hegemonic projects of power.

Thinking Haiti as existing and emerging in relationships (which contrasts with taking Haiti as Haiti-in-itself or as exiting prior to the relationships in which it participates) carries practical, political implications, including how to ethically account for the construction, reproduction, and circulation of Haiti and Haitian lives in a variety of contexts. Through The Politics of Living Haiti, Pierre brings forth a creolized, dehistoricizied, and decolonial approach from which more ethical, just, and multiple Haiti stories and world stories can be and are lived.

Educational Background & Specialties
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Educational Background

  • Master in Public Affairs : , Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 2011 -
  • Post-Gradue in Population & Development: , Faculté des Sciences Humaines, 2004 -
  • Bachelor of Arts, Social Communication: , Faculté des Sciences Humaines, 2002 -

Specialties

  • Littérature afro-caribéenne
  • Decolonial thought
  • Feminist epistemology
  • Haiti and Haitian Lakou
  • Literary nonfiction & narrative inquiry
  • Women and(in) development