Democratic insecurities : violence, trauma, and intervention in Haiti / Erica Caple James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, Erica Caple, 1966-

Series:

California Series in Public Anthropology

California Series in Public Anthropology ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democratization--Haiti.

Democratization.

Political violence--Haiti.

Political violence.

Humanitarian assistance--Haiti.

Humanitarian assistance.

Intervention (International law).

Haiti--Politics and government--1986-.

Haiti.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Violence, trauma, and intervention in Haiti

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Abbreviations

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: Democracy, Insecurity, and the Commodification of Suffering

1. The Terror Apparatus

2. The Aid Apparatus and the Politics of Victimization

3. Routines of Rupture and Spaces of (In)Security

4. Double Binds in Audit Cultures

5. Bureaucraft, Accusations, and the Social Life of Aid

6. Sovereign Rule, Ensekirite, and Death

7. The Tyranny of the Gift

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612660870

9781282660878

128266087X

9780520947917

0520947916

OCLC:

659581670