1st Edition
Disasters, Vulnerability, and Narratives Writing Haiti’s Futures
PART I: DISASTER MAKING 1. January 12 2010: From Hazard to Disaster 2. Disaster’s Past, Present and Future: Beyond Exposure, Failure and Resilience 3. Rasanblaj: Scholarship of Care PART II: DISASTER TIME 4. Halting the Tremors 5. Recalling History and Reimagining the Future PART III: DISASTER SPACE 6. Navigating Through the Rubble 7. Future Rebuilding and Reconstructions PART IV: DISASTER SELVES 8. Narrating Conversion and Rescue 9. Imagining Novel Lives Rasanblaj: A Future Reassembled
Biography
Kasia Mika is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University London. Her research focuses on disaster studies, postcolonial approaches to environmental and medical humanities, and Caribbean and island studies. In Disasters, Vulnerability, and Narratives: Writing Haiti’s Futures (Routledge 2019), she turns to narratives of the 2010 Haiti earthquake to conceptualize hinged chronologies, slow healing, and remnant dwelling. Building on this work, she has produced a short documentary, Intranqu’îllités (2019; dir. Ed Owles), on art and creativity in Haiti (AHRC Research in Film Award 2019). Her articles appeared in: Area, The Journal of Haitian Studies, Moving Worlds, Modern and Contemporary France.
"In Disasters, Vulnerability, and Narratives: Writing Haiti’s Futures, Kasia Mika makes an important contribution to the still-emerging archive of experience of the Haitian earthquake. In Mika’s critical reading of a cross-section of fictional and nonfictional accounts, we get a "bold, future-oriented" account of the catastrophe." Greg Beckett, Author of There Is No More Haiti.
