Democratic insecurities : violence, trauma, and intervention in Haiti / Erica Caple James.

James, Erica Caple, 1966-
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
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Part of the series California series in public anthropology 22;California series in public anthropology 22.
Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Introduction: Democracy, insecurity, and the commodification of suffering — The terror apparatus — The aid apparatus and the politics of victimization — Routines of rupture and space of (in)security — Double binds in audit cultures — Bureaucraft, accusations, and the social life of aid — Sovereign rule, ensekirite, and death — The tyranny of the gift.

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Requested by Lansing, M

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