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Harvesting Haiti

Chancy, Myriam J. A

2023

Overview

This collection ponders the personal and political implications for Haitians at home and abroad resulting from the devastating 2010 earthquake. 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. As the post-earthquake political situation unfolded, Myriam Chancy worked to illuminate on-the-ground concerns, from the vulnerable position of Haitian women to the failures of international aid. Originally presented at invited campus talks, published as columns for a newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago, and circulated in other ways, her essays and creative responses preserve the reactions and urgencies of the years following the disaster. In Harvesting Haiti , Chancy examines the structures that have resulted in Haiti's post-earthquake conditions and reflects at key points after the earthquake on its effects on vulnerable communities. Her essays make clear the importance of sustaining and supporting the dignity of Haitian lives and of creating a better, contextualized understanding of the issues that mark Haitians' historical and present realities, from gender parity to the vexed relationship between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Subject: 2010 earthquake / Black studies / Caribbean Anthropology / Caribbean cultural studies / Caribbean studies / Denationalization / disaster / disaster aftermath / Disaster Literature / disaster studies / Disasters & Disaster Relief / Dominican Republic / Duvalier Regime / earthquake / earthquake relief / earthquake response / earthquakes / Economic conditions / Environmental Science / Essays / global trade / Haiti / Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010 / Haitian cultural studies / Haitian Revolution / IDP camps / international aid / Latin American Studies / natural disaster / Natural Disasters / NATURE / NATURE / Natural Disasters / Pedagogy of liberation / Politics and government / Press coverage / Social conditions / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies / SOCIAL SCIENCE / General / Sociology / Structural Violence & Development / The Trinidad Express / What Storm / What Thunder
• ISBN: 9781477327814, 1477327819, 9781477327838, 1477327835, 9781477327821, 1477327827