Acknowledgments -- List of acronyms -- Introduction -- Haiti's unnatural disaster : neoliberalism -- Racing from the rubble : constructing IDPs -- Hitting home : humanitarian impacts on Haiti's households -- Pa Manyen Fanm Nan Konsa : the gender of aid -- Pòch Prela : camp committees -- Aba Ong Volè : the "republic of NGOs" -- Colonization within NGOs : Haitian staff understandings -- Fotokopi : imperialism's carbon copy -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index
Summary
Mark Schuller led an independent study of eight displaced-persons camps in Haiti, compiling more than 150 interviews ranging from Haitian front-line workers and camp directors to foreign humanitarians and many earthquake victims. The result is an insightful account of why the multi-billion-dollar aid response to the Haitian earthquake triggered a range of unintended consequences, rupturing social and cultural institutions and actually increasing violence, especially against women
