Media
Palo Alto: Café y Vida
Documentary Produced by Scott Freeman
The following documentary is presented by the coffee-growing community of Palo Alto, Santiago in the Dominican Republic.
Cooperativa Agropecuaria y Servicios Multiples de los Agricultores del Alto del Cedro (COOPACEDRO) is an organization composed of over 150 coffee farmers banding together to maintain sustainable livelihoods in the face of crop loss due to coffee rust.
Support is provided by Instituto para la Autogestión y el Desarrollo de Base (INADEB) and the Inter-American Foundation.
Interviews & Presentations
The deportation crisis no one is talking about
Guest segment on Changing America, MSNBC, June 23, 2015
"The Dominican Republic is deporting hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants -- mostly of Haitian descent. The measure has sparked international outrage. What happens now?"
Revisions of Soil: Generations of Applied Anthropology in Haiti
Presentation at Teachers College, Columbia University, on Applying Anthropology, February 26, 2015
This presentation illustrates and analyzes the way in which multiple anthropologies come into contact, and how a contemporary applied venture must critically analyze a broad spectrum of development actors, both past and present.
Perfumers promote fair trade for Haiti's 'super-crop'
by David Adams, REUTERS, April 24, 2014
“'Haitian farmers are in an economically precarious position,' said Freeman. 'When they find themselves in a tight squeeze, they dig up the vetiver. It's their bank account.'“
Invited Talks
2016 Keynote Panelist Hybridity: Examining Processes of Circulation, Collaboration, and Conflict. Keynote Panel. May 6. Latin American Studies Center, University of Maryland
2014 Conference Speaker Agricultural Labor, Post Colonialism, and Aid in Haiti. Africana Studies Emerging Scholars Conference. Gettysburg College, PA.
2017 Session Discussant Life, Distributed: Biogeographies of the Anthropocene. American Anthropological Association, 116th Annual Meeting. Washington, DC.
Conferences & Panels
2020: Papers, procedures, and plants: Expanding the political ecology of bureaucracy. Political Ecology Network (POLLEN). Online.
2019: Beyond the crisis: Peasants and agrarian movements at the limits of environmental narratives. Gainesville, FL: Haitian Studies Association. (Plenary panel).
2016: Global Elisions: Silence and Circumvention in Conservation and Development. Minneapolis: American Anthropological Association.
2015: Projects, Log Frames, and Bureaucracies: ‘Formalization’ and Aid in Haiti. Montreal: Haitian Studies Association.
2013: Beyond Neoliberalisms: NGOs and Anthropological Theory. Chicago: The Future of NGO Studies.
2012: Conserving and Sustaining Forests and Farms: Conservation and Development Discourses, and the (Re)creation of Subjectivities. San Francisco: American Anthropological Association.
Papers Presented
2021: The temporalities of Environmental aid projects in Haiti. Anthropology and Conservation (Royal Anthropological Institute). Online.
2020: No time to plant: The timescapes of aid projects in Haiti. Political Ecology Network (POLLEN). Online.
2019: From konbit to brigada: a critical political ecology of land and labor. Island Anthropologies. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2018: Konbit or Ranpono?: Methodological nationalism and collective labor in Haiti. Haitian Studies Association. Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
2018: Cafè conservation: Reciprocal labor and coffee cultivation in the Dominican Republic. Political Ecology Network Conference. Oslo, Norway.
2018: Controlling Soils: Bureaucracy, Coercion, and Soil Conservation. Political Ecology Network Conference. Oslo, Norway.
2016: Playing the Project: Environmental NGOs and aid funding in Haiti. American Anthropological Association. Minneapolis, MN.
2016: Cultures of development: Aid and the projectification of Haiti. Caribbean Studies Association. Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
2016: Finding Roots? Coffee, Ecology, and Attempts to Revive Cooperative Labor in the Dominican Republic. Society for Applied Anthropology. Vancouver, Canada.
2015: Becoming a Project: Aid Transformations in the Haitian Countryside. Haitian Studies Association. Montreal, Canada.
2015: Revisions of soil: Generations of applied anthropology in Haiti. Teachers College Conference on Applied Anthropology. New York, NY.
2014: Eroding Conservation: The Politics and Poetics of Soil in Haiti. Washington DC: American Anthropological Association.
2014: The Projectification of the Haitian Countryside: Logics of Aid in Haiti. Washington DC: The George Washington Anthropology Department Yearly Symposium.
2013: Conserving the Project: Labor, Development, and Environmental Government in Haiti. Chicago: American Anthropological Association.
2013: To Conserve and Protect: Haitian Farmers, Soil Conservation, and the Legacies of International Development. Denver: Society for Applied Anthropology.
2012: Working the Land: NGOs, Farming, and Environments in Haiti. San Francisco: American Anthropological Association.
2012: Haitian Roofs and French Perfumes: The movement and imagination of vetiver in Haiti. Rutgers University: Transnational Hispaniola Conference.
2012: Cash in the Ground: Vetiver root farmers in Haiti. Baltimore: Society for Applied Anthropology.
2011: Conserve and Sustain? Environmentally focused development projects and fishers in the Dominican Republic. Montreal: American Anthropological Association.
2011: Expensive oils and shifting soils: Examining the social context of the vetiver plant in Southwest Haiti. Kingston, Jamaica: Haitian Studies Association.
2011: Developing Context: Fishers and Sustainable Development in the Dominican Republic. Seattle: Society for Applied Anthropology.
2009: Cross-Cultural Professional Development as a Means to Improve Literacy: The Case of Finca del Niño. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Education Student Research Conference.