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Contents
Introduction. To Make Visible the “Invisible Epistemological Order”: Haiti, Singularity, and Newness
Millery Polyné
I. Revolisyon/Kriz (Revolution/Crisis)
1. Haiti, the Monstrous Anomaly
Nick Nesbitt
2. Rethinking the Haitian Crisis
Greg Beckett
3. Remembering Charlemagne Péralte and His Defense of Haiti’s Revolution
Yveline Alexis
II. Moun/Demoun (Person/Dehumanized)
4. Haiti: Fantasies of Bare Life
Sibylle Fischer
5. The Violence of Executive Silence
Patrick Sylvain
6. Religion at the Epicenter: Agency and Affiliation in Léogâne after the Earthquake
Karen Richman
III. Èd (Aid)
7. The Alliance for Progress: A Case Study of Failure of International Commitments to Haiti
Wien Weibert Arthus
8. Urban Planning and the Rebuilding of Port-au-Prince
Harley F. Etienne
9. Cholera and the Camps: Reaping the Republic of NGOs
Mark Schuller
10. From Slave Revolt to a Blood Pact with Satan: The Evangelical Rewriting of Haitian History
Elizabeth McAlister
11. Twenty-First Century Haiti—A New Normal? A Conversation with Four Scholars of Haiti
Alex Dupuy, Robert Fatton, Jr., Évelyne Trouillot, and Tatiana Wah
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