Democratic Insecurities : Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti /

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"Democratic Insecurities focuses on the ethics of military and humanitarian intervention in Haiti during and after Haiti's 1991 coup. In this remarkable ethnography of violence, Erica Caple James explores the traumas of Haitian victims whose experiences were denied by U.S. officials and re...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: James, Erica Caple, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
Series:California series in public anthropology ; 22.
Subjects:
Since 1986
Democratization > Haiti.
Political violence > Haiti.
Humanitarian assistance > Haiti.
Intervention (International law)
Démocratisation > Haïti.
Violence politique > Haïti.
Aide humanitaire > Haïti.
Intervention (Droit international)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Democratization.
Humanitarian assistance.
Politics and government
Political violence.
Haiti > Politics and government > 1986-
Haiti.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: democracy, insecurity, and the commodification of suffering
  • 1. The terror apparatus
  • 2. The aid apparatus and the politics of victimization
  • 3. Routines of rupture and spaces of (in)security
  • 4. Double binds in audit cultures
  • 5. Bureaucraft, accusations, and the social life of aid
  • 6. Sovereign rule, Ensekirite, and death
  • 7. The tyranny of the gift.

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