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Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti Volume 22

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"Haiti's catastrophic earthquake follows a decade of crisis in governance and in everyday social life. Erica James's powerful ethnographic study shows how insecurity has been created, victimhood shaped, and trauma mediated under long-term conditions of grinding poverty punctuated by periodic disaster and interventions both external and domestic. The international and unintended consequences have commodified suffering, institutionalized insecurity, and fashioned a troubling and troubled 'democracy.' This book is a major ...

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Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti Volume 22 2010, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

ISBN-13: 9780520260542

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Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti Volume 22 2010, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

ISBN-13: 9780520260535

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