I have a long research relationship with the Francophone Caribbean.
I've conducted ethnographic and historical research in Haiti, French Guiana (Guyane Française), and in archival collections in Paris, France and Washington, DC.
I have been traveling to Haiti for field projects since 2009. I survived the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Delmas, Port-au-Prince, Haiti on January 12, 2010.
Most recently, I lived in northern Haiti, near Limonade, for a number of months in 2016, assisting with data-gathering for a long-term ethnographic field project.
I've conducted ethnographic and historical research in Haiti, French Guiana (Guyane Française), and in archival collections in Paris, France and Washington, DC.
I have been traveling to Haiti for field projects since 2009. I survived the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Delmas, Port-au-Prince, Haiti on January 12, 2010.
Most recently, I lived in northern Haiti, near Limonade, for a number of months in 2016, assisting with data-gathering for a long-term ethnographic field project.
French Sugar and French Land
While at the University of Arizona, I examined the invention and economic protection of beet sugar on the French mainland in the early 1800s, and its effects for the French sugar-producing colonies in the Caribbean.
I argue that economic protection of beet sugar (produced in northern France) led to a split in the French national sugar market and, ultimately, the revaluation of land in French Guiana, which facilitated the decision in 1851 to locate a penal colony in that territory.
I have published and presented this work in a number of venues, including Economic Anthropology.
While at the University of Arizona, I examined the invention and economic protection of beet sugar on the French mainland in the early 1800s, and its effects for the French sugar-producing colonies in the Caribbean.
I argue that economic protection of beet sugar (produced in northern France) led to a split in the French national sugar market and, ultimately, the revaluation of land in French Guiana, which facilitated the decision in 1851 to locate a penal colony in that territory.
I have published and presented this work in a number of venues, including Economic Anthropology.
Related citations:
-- Article manuscripts in prep.
2024. Review of Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation, S. Vaughn. Transforming Anthropology 32(1).
2022 "Slave, Prisoner, Migrant: Ecologies of Development on Europe’s Farthest Border." Paper presented at WERN (World Ecology Research Network) Conference, Bonn, Germany, June 2022.
2019 "Bagnard Ghosts on the Edge of France," paper presented at IUAES Inter-Congress, Poznan, Poland, August.
2018 “Producing the Periphery." In Locating Guyane, eds. Catriona MacLeod and Sarah Wood, pp. 91-104. Liverpool University Press.
2018 "Sucre Indigène and Sucre Colonial: Reconsidering the Splitting of the French National Sugar Market, 1800-1860." Economic Anthropology 5(1): 20-31.
-- Article manuscripts in prep.
2024. Review of Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation, S. Vaughn. Transforming Anthropology 32(1).
2022 "Slave, Prisoner, Migrant: Ecologies of Development on Europe’s Farthest Border." Paper presented at WERN (World Ecology Research Network) Conference, Bonn, Germany, June 2022.
2019 "Bagnard Ghosts on the Edge of France," paper presented at IUAES Inter-Congress, Poznan, Poland, August.
2018 “Producing the Periphery." In Locating Guyane, eds. Catriona MacLeod and Sarah Wood, pp. 91-104. Liverpool University Press.
2018 "Sucre Indigène and Sucre Colonial: Reconsidering the Splitting of the French National Sugar Market, 1800-1860." Economic Anthropology 5(1): 20-31.