Publications
Books & Volumes
Who Owns Haiti? People, Power, and Sovereignty
(2017) Edited by Robert Maguire and Scott Freeman and published by the University Press of Florida.
"Powerful essays by experts in their fields addressing what matters most to smaller nations--the meaning of sovereignty, and the horrid trajectory from colonialism, to neocolonialism into neoliberalism.”
-Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, author of Haiti: The Breached Citadel
"A timely collection of articles by some of the leading and emerging scholars and specialists on Haiti, offering a wide range of critical perspectives on the question and meaning of sovereignty in Haiti.”
-Alex Dupuy, author of The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti
"Directly asks the provocative question of ownership and Haitian sovereignty within the post-earthquake moment--an unstable period in which ideas on (re)development, humanitarianism, globalization, militarism, self-determination, and security converge."
-Millery Polyne, author of From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan Americanism, 1870-1964
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Freeman, Scott, and Lauren Carruth. Aid or exploitation?: Food-for-work, cash-for-work, and the production of “beneficiary-workers” in Ethiopia and Haiti. World Development. (2021)
Freeman, Scott, and Mark Schuller. Aid projects: The effects of commodification and exchange. World Development. (2020)
“Perfume and Planes: Ignorance and Imagination in Haiti's Vetiver Oil Industry". The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
Lojik èd: Pwojè e Odìt nan Ayiti (Logics of aid: The project and audit in Haiti). Chantiers. Universitè d’Ètat d’Haiti. ISSN: 2618-0170
Other Writings
Dumping Peanuts in Haiti: Stop calling “aid” what really is about supply management for US agricultural interests. With Adam Diamond, Garrett GradyLovelace. The Globalist
Who speaks for soils? Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing. (2015)
Vetiver in Southwest Haiti (pdf). New York: Haiti Research and Policy Program, Columbia University. Digital Publication. (2013)
Pepper Water and Protests in Haiti. June 3, 2015.
Martelly at Howard University: A Concerning View on Poverty and Education? February 12, 2014.
Historical ‘Anti-Haitianism’ and the Rulings of the Dominican Constitutional Court. October 21, 2013.
Audits as Usual? July 19, 2013.
The Invisible Walls of Aid. June 17, 2013.
Images and "Saving." May 9, 2013.
The Two Faces of the UN. March 20, 2013.
Haiti Advocacy Working Group Recent Events: Dialogues between Haitian Institutions and US Aid Groups. February 17, 2013.
UNDP's Questionable Claims of Progress. February 6, 2013.
