Democratic Insecurities - Violence, Trauma and Intervention in Haiti

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-520-26054-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 384 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

Reihe: California Series in Public Anthropology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

James, Erica

James, Erica Caple

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
List of Abbreviations

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

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

Über Autor(innen)

Erica Caple James is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.