TY  - BOOK
AU  - Polyné,Millery
TI  - The idea of Haiti: rethinking crisis and development 
SN  - 9780816681327
AV  - 110 F 1928.2 I19 2013
U1  - 972.9407/3 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Haiti
KW  - Desarrollo económico
KW  - Haití
KW  - Economic assistance
KW  - Asistencia económica
KW  - Humanitarian assistance
KW  - Asistencia humanitaria
KW  - Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010
KW  - Terremotos
KW  - 2010
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Política y gobierno
KW  - Siglo XXI
KW  - Condiciones económicas
KW  - Condiciones sociales
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; ContentsIntroduction. To Make Visible the “Invisible Epistemological Order”: Haiti, Singularity, and NewnessMillery PolynéI. Revolisyon/Kriz (Revolution/Crisis)1. Haiti, the Monstrous AnomalyNick Nesbitt2. Rethinking the Haitian CrisisGreg Beckett3. Remembering Charlemagne Péralte and His Defense of Haiti’s RevolutionYveline AlexisII. Moun/Demoun (Person/Dehumanized)4. Haiti: Fantasies of Bare LifeSibylle Fischer5. The Violence of Executive SilencePatrick Sylvain6. Religion at the Epicenter: Agency and Affiliation in Léogâne after the EarthquakeKaren RichmanIII. Èd (Aid)7. The Alliance for Progress: A Case Study of Failure of International Commitments to HaitiWien Weibert Arthus8. Urban Planning and the Rebuilding of Port-au-PrinceHarley F. Etienne9. Cholera and the Camps: Reaping the Republic of NGOsMark Schuller10. From Slave Revolt to a Blood Pact with Satan: The Evangelical Rewriting of Haitian HistoryElizabeth McAlister11. Twenty-First Century Haiti—A New Normal? A Conversation with Four Scholars of HaitiAlex Dupuy, Robert Fatton, Jr., Évelyne Trouillot, and Tatiana WahContributorsIndex
N2  - 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
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