The idea of Haiti : rethinking crisis and development /

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After Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010, aid workers and offers of support poured in from around the world. Tellingly, though, news reports on the catastrophe and relief efforts frequently included a pejorative description of the country that outsiders were determined...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Polyné, Millery (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies.
Temas:
2000-2099
Economic development > Haiti.
Economic assistance > Haiti.
Humanitarian assistance > Haiti.
Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010.
Développement économique > Haïti.
Aide économique > Haïti.
Aide humanitaire > Haïti.
Tremblement de terre d'Haïti, Haïti, 2010.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > General.
Economic assistance
Economic development
Economic history
Humanitarian assistance
Politics and government
Social conditions
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
Latin America.
Jordbävningen i Haiti 2010.
Internationellt bistånd.
Utvecklingsbistånd.
Haiti > Politics and government > 21st century.
Haiti > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Haiti > Social conditions > 21st century.
Haïti > Politique et gouvernement > 21e siècle.
Haïti > Conditions économiques > 21e siècle.
Haïti > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
Haiti
Haiti > historia.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. To make visible the invisible epistemological order : Haiti, singularity, and newness / Millery Polyné
  • Haiti, the monstrous anomaly / Nick Nesbitt
  • Rethinking the Haitian crisis / Greg Beckett
  • Remembering Charlemagne Péralte and his defense of Haiti's Revolution / Yveline Alexis
  • Haiti : fantasies of bare life / Sibylle Fischer
  • The violence of executive silence / Patrick Sylvain
  • Religion at the epicenter : agency and affiliation in Léogâne after the earthquake / Karen Richman
  • The alliance for progress : a case study of failure of international commitments to Haiti / Wien Weibert Arthus
  • Urban planning and the rebuilding of Port-au-Prince / Harley F. Etienne
  • Cholera and the camps : reaping the republic of NGOs / Mark Schuller
  • From slave revolt to a blood pact with Satan : the evangelical rewriting of Haitian history / Elizabeth McAlister
  • Twenty-first-century Haiti - a new normal? : A conversation with four scholars of Haiti / Alex Dupuy [and others].

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