Threat To Haiti

Author : John A. Torres
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781545749760

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Threat to Haiti by John A. Torres Pdf

From afar, Haiti seems like any other Caribbean paradise. There are lush jungles, white sand beaches, and turquoise waters. But a closer look at the small country located on the island of Hispaniola reveals a stark glimpse into the developing world. Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and one of the most forlorn countries in the world. The government is unstable, crime is rampant, education is for the lucky, and hope is hard to come by. Meanwhile, the poor economy has driven the people to clear-cut large parts of the terrain. When heavy storms hit, killer mudslides bring a different kind of threat to the country. Read about the Haitian people, who celebrate a culture rich in French, Spanish, and African History, and find out what the world is doing to help solve the crises they face every day.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:713320246

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Building a More Resilient Haitian State by Anonim Pdf

On January 12, 2010, an earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, Leogane, and other cities and settlements in the south of Haiti, leaving 300,000 people dead, another 300,000 injured, and 1.3 million homeless. The Haitian government and the international community moved rapidly to address the immediate humanitarian crisis. The homeless are now sheltered in tents and provided with food and water. The airport was quickly reopened, and the port of Port-au-Prince has been returned to service. Much has stabilized in Haiti, although the threat looms of a severe hurricane season that may devastate the tent cities in which so many Haitians now live.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PURD:32754070200484

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The Emerging Drug Threat from Haiti by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050200570

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The Emerging Drug Threat from Haiti by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources Pdf

Author : Brian Weinstein,Aaron Segal
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X000788548

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Haiti by Brian Weinstein,Aaron Segal Pdf

Author : Kasia Mika
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351403030

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Disasters, Vulnerability, and Narratives by Kasia Mika Pdf

This book uses narrative responses to the 2010 Haiti earthquake as a starting point for an analysis of notions of disaster, vulnerability, reconstruction and recovery. The turn to a wide range of literary works enables a composite comparative analysis, which encompasses the social, political and individual dimensions of the earthquake. This book focuses on a vision of an open-ended future, otherwise than as a threat or fear. Mika turns to concepts of hinged chronologies, slow healing and remnant dwelling. Weaving theory with attentive close-readings, the book offers an open-ended framework for conceptualising post-disaster recovery and healing. These processes happen at different times and must entail the elimination of compound vulnerabilities that created the disaster in the first place. Challenging characterisations of the region as a continuous catastrophe this book works towards a bold vision of Haiti’s and the Caribbean’s futures. The study shows how narratives can extend some of the key concepts within discipline-bound approaches to disasters, while making an important contribution to the interface between disaster studies, postcolonial ecocriticism and Haitian Studies.

Author : Ada Ferrer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107029422

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Freedom's Mirror by Ada Ferrer Pdf

Studies the reverberations of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba, where the violent entrenchment of slavery occurred while slaves in Haiti successfully overthrew the institution.

Author : Bhawan Singh,Marc J. Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 178077561X

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Climate Change Resilience by Bhawan Singh,Marc J. Cohen Pdf

Author : Laurent Dubois
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805095623

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Haiti: The Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois Pdf

A passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country's devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic history Even before the 2010 earthquake destroyed much of the country, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption. Maligned and misunderstood, the nation has long been blamed by many for its own wretchedness. But as acclaimed historian Laurent Dubois makes clear, Haiti's troubled present can only be understood by examining its complex past. The country's difficulties are inextricably rooted in its founding revolution—the only successful slave revolt in the history of the world; the hostility that this rebellion generated among the colonial powers surrounding the island nation; and the intense struggle within Haiti itself to define its newfound freedom and realize its promise. Dubois vividly depicts the isolation and impoverishment that followed the 1804 uprising. He details how the crushing indemnity imposed by the former French rulers initiated a devastating cycle of debt, while frequent interventions by the United States—including a twenty-year military occupation—further undermined Haiti's independence. At the same time, Dubois shows, the internal debates about what Haiti should do with its hard-won liberty alienated the nation's leaders from the broader population, setting the stage for enduring political conflict. Yet as Dubois demonstrates, the Haitian people have never given up on their struggle for true democracy, creating a powerful culture insistent on autonomy and equality for all. Revealing what lies behind the familiar moniker of "the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere," this indispensable book illuminates the foundations on which a new Haiti might yet emerge.

Author : Erica Caple James
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520947917

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Democratic Insecurities by Erica Caple James Pdf

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 recognized only selectively by other humanitarian providers. Using vivid first-person accounts from women survivors, James raises important new questions about humanitarian aid, structural violence, and political insecurity. She discusses the politics of postconflict assistance to Haiti and the challenges of promoting democracy, human rights, and justice in societies that experience chronic insecurity. Similarly, she finds that efforts to promote political development and psychosocial rehabilitation may fail because of competition, strife, and corruption among the individuals and institutions that implement such initiatives.

Author : Hiromi Nagata Fujishige,Yuji Uesugi,Tomoaki Honda
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030885090

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Japan’s Peacekeeping at a Crossroads by Hiromi Nagata Fujishige,Yuji Uesugi,Tomoaki Honda Pdf

This open access book examines why Japan discontinued its quarter-century history of troop contribution to UN Peacekeeping Operations (1992–2017). Japan had deployed its troops as UN peacekeepers since 1992, albeit under a constitutional limit on weapons use. Japan’s peacekeepers began to focus on engineering work as its strength, while also trying to relax the constraints on weapons use, although to a minimal extent. In 2017, however, Japan suddenly withdrew its engineering corps from South Sudan, and has contributed no troops since then. Why? The book argues that Japan could not match the increasing “robustness” of recent peacekeeping operations and has begun to seek a new direction, such as capacity-building support.

Author : Peter Reed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : James Forde
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030526085

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The Early Haitian State and the Question of Political Legitimacy by James Forde Pdf

This book explores the different ways in which the early Haitian state was represented in print culture in America and Britain in the early nineteenth century. This study demonstrates that American and British arguments about the most effective forms of governance and political leadership impacted how Haiti’s early leaders were presented to transatlantic audiences. From the end of the Haitian Revolution and the moment that Haitian independence was declared in 1804, conservatives and radical thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic used Haiti and its early leaders as central frames of references in discussions of political legitimacy. Against the backdrop of a vibrant and volatile age of revolutions, the different forms of governance adopted by Jean Jacques Dessalines, Henry Christophe and Jean Pierre Boyer were used by writers, playwrights and caricaturists to either support or call into question the legitimacy of America’s and Britain’s own forms of government.

Author : Peter Hallward
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789601152

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Damming the Flood by Peter Hallward Pdf

Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in the late 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas ("the flood") sought to liberate the island from decades of US-backed dictatorial rule. Damming the Flood analyzes how and why the Lavalas governments led by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide were overthrown, in 1991 and again in 2004, by the enemies of democracy in Haiti and abroad. The elaborate campaign to suppress Lavalas was perhaps the most successful act of imperial sabotage since the end of the Cold War. It has left the people of Haiti at the mercy of some of the most rapacious political and economic forces on the planet. Updated with a substantial new afterword that addresses the international response to the earthquake, Damming the Flood is both an invaluable account of recent Haitian history and an illuminating analysis of twenty-first-century imperialism.

Author : Jack Daniel Webb
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800346741

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Haiti in the British Imagination by Jack Daniel Webb Pdf

In 1804, Haiti declared its independence from France to become the world’s first ‘black’ nation state. Throughout the nineteenth century, Haiti maintained its independence, consolidating and expanding its national and, at times, imperial projects. In doing so, Haiti joined a host of other nation states and empires that were emerging and expanding across the Atlantic World. The largest and, in many ways, most powerful of these empires was that of Britain. Haiti in the British Imagination is the first book to focus on the diplomatic relations and cultural interactions between Haiti and Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. As well as a story of British imperial aggression and Haitian ‘resistance’, it is also one of a more complicated set of relations: of rivalry, cultural exchange and intellectual dialogue. At particular moments in the Victorian period, ideas about Haiti had wide-reaching relevancies for British anxieties over the quality of British imperial administration, over what should be the relations between ‘the British’ and people of African descent, and defining the limits of black sovereignty. Haitians were key in formulating, disseminating and correcting ideas about Haiti. Through acts of dialogue, Britons and Haitians impacted on the worldviews of one another, and with that changed the political and cultural landscapes of the Atlantic World.