The idea of Haiti : rethinking crisis and development
Title:
The idea of Haiti : rethinking crisis and development
JLCTITLE245:
Millery Polyné, editor.
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (331 pages)
ISBN:
9781452939599
9781461941170
9781452948638
Abstract:
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 to rebuild: the troubled island nation, a nation plagued by political violence. There was much talk of inventing a "new" Haiti, which would presumably mimic Western modes of development and thus mitigate political instability and crisis. As contributors to this wide-ranging bo.
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JSTOR
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents:
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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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Print version record.