Description
Trade Review"Mark Schuller's ethnography of pre- and post-earthquake disaster Haiti is profoundly riveting, poignant, and courageous. It offers a timely no-holds-barred critique and theoretically nuanced analysis of neoliberal NGO-ization and humanitarian aid. The book also provides an inspiring vision and thougtful recommendations for remedying the problems of 'trickle down imperialism.' This is an important contribution that convincingly explains why we should care about what's happening in Haiti and the troubling implications for elsewhere—including right here in the USA." -- Faye V. Harrison * author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age *
"Schuller's analysis of two NGOs is a singular contribution to our understanding of such organizations in underdeveloped countries." -- Mark Schuller * Alex Dupuy, John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology, Wesleyan University *
"Mark Schuller provides something that has been sorely lacking from this story—an ethnographic account of nongovernmental politics in Haiti, a country many now dub 'the Republic of NGOs.'"
* Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *
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Killing with Kindness offers both engaging ethnographic examples and extensive analysis of the complex network of governmental and nongovernmental institutions through which Haiti and Haitians are ruled. * PoLAR *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables
Foreword by Paul Farmer
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Doing Research during a Coup
1. Violence and Venereal Disease: Structural Violence, Gender, and HIV/AIDS
2. "That's Not Participation!": Relationships from "Below"
3. All in the Family: Relationships "Inside"
4. "We Are Prisoners!": Relationships from "Above"
5. Tectonic Shifts and the Political Tsunami: USAID and the Disaster of Haiti
Conclusion: Killing with Kindness?
Afterword: Some Policy Solutions
Notes
Glossary
References
Index
