Haiti

Author : Robert Maguire,Scott Freeman
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813063379

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Who Owns Haiti? by Robert Maguire,Scott Freeman Pdf

"A timely collection of articles by some of the leading and emerging scholars and specialists on Haiti, offering a wide range of critical perspectives on the question and meaning of sovereignty in Haiti."--Alex Dupuy, coauthor of The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti "Directly asks the provocative question of ownership and Haitian sovereignty within the post-earthquake moment--an unstable period in which ideas on (re)development, humanitarianism, globalization, militarism, self-determination, and security converge."--Millery Polyné, author of From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan Americanism, 1870-1964 "Powerful essays by experts in their fields addressing what matters most to smaller nations--the meaning of sovereignty, and the horrid trajectory from colonialism, to neocolonialism into neoliberalism."--Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, author of Haiti: The Breached Citadel Although Haiti established its independence in 1804, external actors such as the United States, the United Nations, and non-profits have wielded considerable influence throughout its history. Especially in the aftermath of the Duvalier regime and the 2010 earthquake, continual imperial interventions have time and again threatened its sovereignty. Who Owns Haiti? explores the role of international actors in the country’s sovereign affairs while highlighting the ways in which Haitians continually enact their own independence on economic, political, and cultural levels. The contributing authors contemplate Haiti’s sovereign roots from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including political science, anthropology, history, economics, and development studies. They also consider the assertions of sovereignty from historically marginalized urban and rural populations. This volume addresses how Haitian institutions, grassroots organizations, and individuals respond to and resist external influence. Examining how foreign actors encroach on Haitian autonomy and shape--or fail to shape--Haiti’s fortunes, it argues that varying discussions of ownership are central to Haiti’s future as a sovereign state. Contributors: Laurent Dubois | Robert Fatton Jr. | Scott Freeman | Nicholas Johnson | Chelsey Kivland | Robert Maguire | Francois Pierre-Louis Jr. | Karen Richman | Ricardo Seitenfus | Amy Wilentz

Author : Millery Polyné
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452939605

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The Idea of Haiti by Millery Polyné Pdf

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 book reveal, Haiti has long been marginalized as an embodiment of alterity, as the other, and the idea of a new Haiti is actually nothing new. An investigation of the notion of newness through the lenses of history and literature, urban planning, religion, and governance, The Idea of Haiti illuminates the politics and the narratives of Haiti’s past and present. The essays, which grow from original research and in-depth interviews, examine how race, class, and national development inform the policies that envision re-creating the country. Together the contributors address important questions: How will the present narratives of deviance affect international relief and rebuilding efforts? What do Haitians themselves think about Haiti, old and new? What are the potential complications and weakness of aid strategies during these trying times? And what do we mean by crisis in Haiti? Contributors: Yveline Alexis, Rutgers U; Wein Weibert Arthus, State U of Haiti; Greg Beckett, Bowdoin College; Alex Dupuy, Wesleyan U; Harley F. Etienne, U of Michigan; Robert Fatton Jr., U of Virginia; Sibylle Fischer, New York U; Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan U; Nick Nesbitt, Princeton U; Karen Richman, U of Notre Dame; Mark Schuller, York College (CUNY); Patrick Sylvain, Brown U; Évelyne Trouillot, State U of Haiti; Tatiana Wah, Columbia U.

Author : Patricia Schutt-Ainé
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Haiti
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173020666069

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Haiti, a Basic Reference Book by Patricia Schutt-Ainé Pdf

Author : Justin Podur
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0745332579

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Haiti's New Dictatorship by Justin Podur Pdf

In 1804 Haiti became the world's first independent black Republic following a slave revolution. 200 years later, ravaged by colonialism and violence, it was placed under UN military occupation.Haiti's New Dictatorship charts the country's recent history, from the 2004 coup against President Aristide to the devastating 2010 earthquake, revealing a shocking story of abuse and indifference by international forces. Justin Podur unmasks the grim reality of a supposedly benign international occupation, arguing that the denial of sovereignty is the fundamental cause of Haiti's problems. A powerful challenge and wake-up call to the international NGO and development community, Haiti's New Dictatorship is essential reading for anyone concerned with justice in the global south and progressive development policies.

Author : M. Lundahl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230304932

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Poverty in Haiti by M. Lundahl Pdf

Following the 2010 earthquake catastrophe, this book examines the economic and political challenges facing Haiti. It presents an overview of the country's economic history, and seeks new prospects for economic growth and development in the future.

Author : IBP, Inc.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781514500859

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Haiti Business Law Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Basic Laws by IBP, Inc. Pdf

Haiti Business Law Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Basic Laws

Author : Rene Chery
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781462888146

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Women and Children's Tribulation In Haiti by Rene Chery Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015090374870

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Haiti Debt Relief by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Dominican Republic
ISBN : HARVARD:HX7E38

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Inquiry Into Occupation and Administration of Haiti and Santo Domingo by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo Pdf

Author : Paul Farmer
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610392075

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Haiti After the Earthquake by Paul Farmer Pdf

“Paul Farmer, doctor and aid worker, offers an inspiring insider's view of the relief effort.”—Financial Times “The book's greatest strength lies in its depiction of the post-quake chaos… In the book's more analytical sections the author's diagnosis of the difficulties of reconstruction is sharp.” —Economist “A gripping, profoundly moving book, an urgent dispatch from the front by one of our finest warriors for social justice.” —Adam Hochschild “His honest assessment of what the people trying to help Haiti did well—and where they failed—is important for anyone who cares about the country or international aid in general.” —Miami Herald

Author : Peter Reed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781009121361

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Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America by Peter Reed Pdf

American culture maintained a complicated relationship with Haiti from its revolutionary beginnings onward. In this study, Peter P. Reed reveals how Americans embodied and re-enacted their connections to Haiti through a wide array of performance forms. In the wake of Haiti's slave revolts in the 1790s, generations of actors, theatre professionals, spectators, and commentators looked to Haiti as a source of both inspiring freedom and vexing disorder. French colonial refugees, university students, Black theatre stars, blackface minstrels, abolitionists, and even writers such as Herman Melville all reinvented and restaged Haiti in distinctive ways. Reed demonstrates how Haiti's example of Black freedom and national independence helped redefine American popular culture, as actors and audiences repeatedly invoked and suppressed Haiti's revolutionary narratives, characters, and themes. Ultimately, Haiti shaped generations of performances, transforming America's understandings of race, power, freedom, and violence in ways that still reverberate today.

Author : Aimee Ansari
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848144194

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Haiti: A Once-in-a-Century Chance for Change: Beyond reconstruction: re-envisioning Haiti with equity, fairness, and opportunity by Aimee Ansari Pdf

Author : Chelsea Stieber
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479802159

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Haiti's Paper War by Chelsea Stieber Pdf

Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation Picking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti’s post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and republic. What transpired was a war of swords and of pens, waged in newspapers and periodicals, in literature, broadsheets, and fliers. In her analysis of Haitian writing that followed independence, Stieber composes a new literary history of Haiti, that challenges our interpretations of both freedom struggles and the postcolonial. By examining internal dissent during the revolution, Stieber reveals that the very concept of freedom was itself hotly contested in the public sphere, and it was this inherent tension that became the central battleground for the guerre de plume—the paper war—that vied to shape public sentiment and the very idea of Haiti. Stieber’s reading of post-independence Haitian writing reveals key insights into the nature of literature, its relation to freedom and politics, and how fraught and politically loaded the concepts of “literature” and “civilization” really are. The competing ideas of liberté, writing, and civilization at work within postcolonial Haiti have consequences for the way we think about Haiti’s role—as an idea and a discursive interlocutor—in the elaboration of black radicalism and black Atlantic, anticolonial, and decolonial thought. In so doing, Stieber reorders our previously homogeneous view of Haiti, teasing out warring conceptions of the new nation that continued to play out deep into the twentieth century.

Author : Roseline NgCheong-Lum,Leslie Jermyn
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761419683

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Haiti by Roseline NgCheong-Lum,Leslie Jermyn Pdf

"Explores the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of Haiti"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Mambo Chita Tann
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738731636

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Haitian Vodou by Mambo Chita Tann Pdf

Haitian Vodou is a fascinating spiritual tradition rich with ceremonies and magic, songs and prayers, dances and fellowship. Yet outside of Haiti, next to no one understands this joyous and profound way of life. ln Haitian Vodou, Mambo Chita Tann explores the historical roots and contemporary practices of this unique tradition, including discussions of: Customs, beliefs, sacred spaces, and ritual objects Characteristics and behaviors of the Lwa, the spirits served by Vodou practitioners Common misconceptions such as "voodoo dolls" and the zombie phenomenon Questions and answers for attending ceremonies and getting involved in a sosyete (Vodou house) Correspondence tables, Kreyol glossary, supplemental prayer texts, and an extensive list of reference books and online resources Well-researched, comprehensive, and engaging, Haitian Vodou will be a welcome addition for people new to Haitian spirituality as well as for students, practitioners, and academics.