Claudine E. Jean-Baptiste
Student Fellow
Claudine E. Jean-Baptiste is a 6th year PhD candidate in French at the Graduate Center CUNY. She is currently working on her dissertation thesis proposal titled “Memory, Violence and Detours: Strategies of Resistance to Color Invisibility in the French Republic”. Her thesis investigates the subjection of black bodies in France and their invisibility in the (post)colonial space while questioning why it is so hard for the memory of slavery to be recognized in the French Republic of today.
Participating Years
2021–2022
Agrarian Questions, Urban Connections, and Planetary Possibilities: Fire, Water, Earth and Air
The material conditions of agrarian life are deeply connected to the political, social, economic, environmental and cultural challenges of contemporary existence at a planetary scale. Agrarian spaces are central to geopolitical disputes over land and other natural resources, and rural social movements play a key role in defending biodiversity and food production.