Harvesting Haiti : Reflections on Unnatural Disasters / Myriam J. A. Chancy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chancy, Myriam J. A., 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010.

Haiti.

Haiti--Economic conditions.

Haiti--Social conditions.

Haiti--Politics and government.

Genre:

Essays.

Essays

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2023]

Summary:

"The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010 was a debilitating event that followed decades of political, social, and financial issues. Leaving over 250,000 people dead, 300,000 injured, and 1.5 million people homeless, the earthquake has had lasting repercussions on a struggling nation. In this book, Myriam Chancy encourages us to look at Haiti and to continue to examine the historical and present structures that have resulted in Haiti's post-earthquake conditions. And as Haiti is newly recovering from another 7.2 magnitude earthquake from August 2021, the questions that Chancy seeks to answer and the stories she aims to document seem all the more urgent. Originally presented at invited campus talks, published as columns for a newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago, or other venues, the essays in Harvesting Haiti respond to a particular moment and preserve the reactions and urgencies in the years following the 2010 disaster. As Chancy explains, this work "remains pertinent to discussions of Haiti today and to understand what was being discussed in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, which continues to mark the country today, is relevant to what may or may not be possible for its future." The volume is organized into five parts, each with a thematic focus that reveals an important element for the context of post-earthquake Haiti. Part I provides political contexts and background, and includes pieces on international aid, Haiti's exclusion from global trade, and overarching issues in the battle for sovereignty. In Part II, an interview and two essays based on invited talks problematize the media's portrayal of gendered issues in the wake of the disaster. Part III takes an artistic turn with a poem and photo essay. Part IV preserves essays originally published in a column in a discontinued magazine insert for The Trinidad Express. Part V looks to the impact of the earthquake on the already vexed relationship between Haiti and their neighbor, the Dominican Republic. The book concludes with a reflection from five years after the earthquake, and then the tenth anniversary of the disaster"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Introduction

PART I: SOVEREIGNTY AND SURVIVAL

The Aftermath: Responding to the Crisis (2011–2022)

A Marshall Plan for a Haiti at Peace: To Continue or End the Legacy of the Revolution (October 2010)

Submission or Omission: Haiti’s Challenge in Latin America (April 2011)

A Haiti for Haitians: Ending the Legacy of (Band) Aid (November 2010–January 2011)

Haiti: Five Years After (January 2, 2015)

PART II: GENDER AND EQUITY

Hearing Our Mothers: Safeguarding Haitian Women’s Representation and Practices of Survival (March 2010)

Cultural Impasse and Structural Change: How to Address Questions of Gender Equity for Haitian Women across Societal Strata (2013)

Love, Debt, and Forgiveness: Women Speaking from the Rubble in Post-earthquake Haiti (2011–2019)

Women in Haiti: Strength in Spirit and Culture (February 19, 2010)

PART III: UNDER/WATER

Under/Water (Poem, May 31, 2010)

Ayiti Alive! Photo-Essay (2011–2013)

PART IV: UNDERSTANDING HAITI, IN CONTEXT— TRINIDAD & TOBAGO REVIEW COLUMNS (JUNE–DECEMBER 2012)

Nou Bouké!!! (June 2012)

Independence Notes, or, “What’s So Great about Being Haitian, Anyway?” (July 2012)

What Dreams Are Made Of: Haiti Kanpé (September 2012)

The Horrors of Slavery: Haiti, Vodou, and the Myth of the Cursed Nation (October 2012)

Walking Sadness: Haitian Returns—Nomad (November 2012)

Tout Moun Se Moun: Haitian Women’s Feminism, Then and Now (December 2012)

PART V: FRENEMIES—THE DOMINICAN RELATIONSHIP

Are You Haitian? (October 2013)

Lavé Tèt: Striving for (Black) Wellness in Academe and Beyond (Travels in the DR, October 2013)

New Year’s Resolution 2014: “Love Thy Neighbor”

Conclusion: Living with Ruins

Acknowledgments

Appendix: Recommended Charitable Organizations Working in Haiti

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4773-2782-7

OCLC:

1373344554