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  • Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships

    Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti

    by Vincent Joos ...
    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It describes the failures of international aid in Haiti while it analyzes examples of Haitian-based reconstruction and economic practices. By interrogating the relationship between indigenous uses of the cityscape and the urbanization of the countryside ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories

    Neoliberalism Since The French Antillean Uprisings of 2009

    by Rose Mary Allen, Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, Malcom Ferdinand, Louise Hardwick, Paget Henry, Vincent Joos, Jacqueline Lazú, Alix Pierre, Michael Sharpe, Hanétha Vété-Congolo ...
    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories is an essay collection made up of two sections; in the first, a group of anglophone and francophone scholars examines the roots, effects and implications of the major social upheaval that shook Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Réunion in February and March of 2009. They clearly demonstrate the critical role played by community activism, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Power of the Story

    Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean

    Edited by Vincent Joos, Martin Munro, John Ribó ...
    Series Book 6 - Catastrophes in Context
    A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of catastrophe in the circum-Caribbean, it will encourage debate and collaboration between scholars working on ... Read more

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  • Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti

    by Mark Schuller ...
    Winner of the 2016 Anthropology in Media Award from the American Anthropological AssociationThe 2010 earthquake in Haiti was one of the deadliest disasters in modern history, sparking an international aid response—with pledges and donations of $16 billion—that was exceedingly generous. But now, five years later, that generous aid has clearly failed. In Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Non-Sovereign Futures

    French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment

    by Yarimar Bonilla ...
    As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions—or even paradoxes—in our current postcolonial era. In Non-Sovereign Futures, Yarimar Bonilla wrestles with the conceptual arsenal of political modernity—challenging contemporary notions of freedom, sovereignty, nationalism, and revolution—in order to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mobility between Africa, Asia and Latin America

    Economic Networks and Cultural Interactions

    Edited by Ute Röschenthaler, Alessandro Jedlowski ...
    Series series Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
    Trade connections and cultural exchange between Africa and the rest of the global South have existed for centuries. Since the end of the Cold War, these connections have expanded and diversified dramatically, with emerging economies such as China, India, and Brazil becoming increasingly important both as sources of trade and as a destination for African migrants. But while these trends have ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Island Futures

    Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene

    by Mimi Sheller ...
    In Island Futures Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time of climate catastrophe. Drawing on fieldwork on postearthquake reconstruction in Haiti, flooding on the Haitian-Dominican border, and recent hurricanes, Sheller shows how ecological vulnerability and the quest for a "just recovery" in the Caribbean ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Fault Lines

    Views across Haiti's Divide

    by Beverly Bell ...
    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 leaving another two million Haitians homeless, Bell has spent much of her time in Haiti. Her new book, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Narratives of Faith from the Haiti Earthquake

    Religion, Natural Hazards and Disaster Response

    by Roger Philip Abbott, Robert S. White ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Religion
    This book presents an in-depth ethnographic case study carried out in the years following the 2010 Haiti earthquake to present the role of faith beliefs in disaster response. The earthquake is one of the most destructive on record, and the aftermath, including a cholera epidemic and ongoing humanitarian aid, has continued for years following the catastrophe.Based on dozens of interviews, this book ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean

    Ways of Being Non/Sovereign

    by Yvon van der Pijl, Francio Guadeloupe, Nikki Mulder, Jordi Halfman, Guiselle Starink-Martha, Rose Mary Allen, Lisenne Delgado, Francisca Grommé0, Antonio Carmona Báez1, Gregory Richardson2, Charissa Granger3, Nicole Sanches4 ...
    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean is a collection of essays that explores fundamental questions of equality and freedom on the non-sovereign islands of the Dutch Caribbean. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, historical and media analysis, the study of popular culture, and autoethnographic accounts, the various contributions challenge conventional assumptions about political non ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Big Truck That Went By

    How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster

    by Jonathan M. Katz ...
    On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle it. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this visceral, authoritative first-hand account, Katz chronicles the terror of that day, the devastation ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Travesty in Haiti: A true account of Christian missions, orphanages, fraud, food aid and drug trafficking

    by Timothy T Schwartz ...
    TRAVESTY is an anthropologist's personal story of working with foreign aid agencies and discovering that fraud, greed, corruption, apathy, and political agendas permeate the industry. It is a story of failed agricultural, health and credit projects; violent struggles for control over foreign aid; corrupt orphanage owners, pastors, and missionaries; the nepotistic manipulation of research funds; ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus