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Fault Lines : Views across Haiti's Divide /

Beverly Bell, an activist and award-winning writer, has dedicated her life to working for democracy, women's rights, and economic justice in Haiti and elsewhere. Since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake of January 12, 2010, that struck the island nation, killing more than a quarter-million people and...

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Autor principal: Bell, Beverly, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : 35 seconds
  • We don't have enough water to make tears (surviving the earthquake, or not) (January 2010)
  • What we have, we share : solidarity undergirds rescue and relief (January 2010)
  • The pearl of the Antilles : the political economy of peril (February 2010)
  • Maroon man : social movements throughout history (February 2010)
  • We will carry you on : the women's movement (March 2010)
  • You can't eat okra with one finger : community-run humanitarian aid (March 2010)
  • Fragile as a crystal (tales from three months out) (April 010)
  • Children of the land : small farmers and agriculture (April 2010)
  • Grains and guns : foreign aid and reconstruction (May 2010)
  • The ones who must decide : social movements in the reconstruction (May 2010)
  • Our bodies are shaking now : violence against girls and women (June 2010)
  • The creole connection : people-to-people aid and solidarity across borders (June 2010)
  • We've lost the battle, but we haven't lost the war (tales from six months out) (July 2010)
  • Social fault lines : class and catastrophe (July 2010)
  • Monsanto seeds, Miami rice : the politics of food aid and trade (August 2010)
  • Home : from tent camp to community (August 2010)
  • For want of twenty cents : children's rights and security (September 2010)
  • The Super Bowl of disasters : profiting from crisis (September 2010)
  • The commonplace amidst the catastrophic (tales from nine months out) (October 2010)
  • Beyond medical care : the health of the nation (October 2010)
  • Hold strong : the pros and pitfalls of resilience (November 2010)
  • Mrs. Clinton will never see me working there the offshore assembly industry (November, 2010)
  • The central pillar : peasant women (December 2010)
  • Elections (in the time of cholera) (December 2010)
  • We will never fall asleep forgetting (tales from twelve months out) (January 2011)
  • Epilogue : bringing it back home.