There is no more Haiti: between life and death in Port-au-Prince

"This is not a book about crisis in Haiti. This is a book about what it feels like to live, and sometimes to die, with crisis. It is about the experience of living with a crisis that seems to never end, to only turn into more crises, more disasters, more emergencies, and more interventions. How...

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Beteilige Person: Beckett, Greg 1975- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Oakland, California University of California Press 2020
Ausgabe:First paperback printing
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Zusammenfassung:"This is not a book about crisis in Haiti. This is a book about what it feels like to live, and sometimes to die, with crisis. It is about the experience of living with a crisis that seems to never end, to only turn into more crises, more disasters, more emergencies, and more interventions. How Crisis Feels also explores the power of stories to help us make sense of the world and to understand the experience of others. Greg Beckett draws on over a decade of research to trace how people navigate the ruins of ecological devastation, economic collapse, political upheaval, violence, and humanitarian disasters in Port-au-Prince, Haiti"...Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:Enthält bibliographische Angaben und Index
Umfang:x, 295 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780520378995
9780520300248