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    There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince
    There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince
    There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince
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    There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince

    By Greg Beckett

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    This is not just another book about crisis in Haiti. This book is about what it feels like to live and die with a crisis that never seems to end. It is about the experience of living amid the ruins of ecological devastation, economic collapse, political upheaval, violence, and humanitarian disaster. It is about how catastrophic events and political and economic forces shape the most intimate aspects of everyday life. In this gripping account, anthropologist Greg Beckett offers a stunning ethnographic portrait of ordinary people struggling to survive in Port-au-Prince in the twenty-first century. Drawing on over a decade of research, There Is No More Haiti builds on stories of death and rebirth to powerfully reframe the narrative of a country in crisis. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Haiti today.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of California Press
    Release dateMar 26, 2019
    ISBN9780520971738
    There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince
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    Greg Beckett

    Greg Beckett is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Western University in Ontario.  

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      ‘There Is No More Haiti’ (2019) by Greg Beckett, is perhaps more for the insider, for people who already know Haiti well. Mr Beckett talks to many people, from different social layers of society, and looks at what it takes for them to survive. In focusing on the day-to-day challenges, he projects Haiti’s overall problems on its individual citizens. In the process he paints a country that wrestles with increasingly serious difficulties, every next crisis seems worse than the one that preceded it. But like everybody else, Mr Beckett also doesn’t come up with real solutions. Outsiders are to blame, foreign governments, first and foremost the Americans. And the NGOs, who have done so much wrong, and even the tourists, who don’t come anymore. Oh, and don’t forget the UN, and their peace keepers. Of course, outsiders made mistakes – including the UN peace keepers, who carried cholera into the country after the 2010 earthquake -, but Haitians carry some responsibility, too. The business elite, who try to keep a stranglehold on the country to protect their interest, the politicians over the years, few of whom can be accused of having the ultimate interest of the country in mind; the never-ending stream of criminals, involved not only in drug trafficking, but – even more paralysing for a country – in large scale kidnap for ransom. And all the normal people, the people Mr Beckett talks to, who have let it happen, who have let the situation run out of control until there is no way back anymore.The first four chapters are a good read: the link between how the various crises in the country reflect on crises in individual’s lives, whether intellectuals chasing a botanical garden project or taxi drivers and souvenir sellers trying to survive in a tourist-less society. Including some historical context, from both the Duvalier dictator years as well as the early days of democracy, the rise – and fall – or Aristide. Mr Beckett himself experiences the second fall of Aristide, the coup that was coming, the uncertainties, the crime wave and the UN peace keepers intervention. The fifth chapter, written much later, comes a bit as an afterthought: I suspect the book, which covers interview from 2002 to 2006, was almost ready, when the 2010 earthquake stuck, and this had to be covered too. Which is, unfortunately, a lot less convincing, Mr Beckett is not an authority on disaster relief, and mostly seems to quote what others have written, or said, about this next crisis in Haitian history. I enjoyed reading the book – as much as you can enjoy reading about misery -, but as I said earlier, those who know Haiti well will probably find this more interesting than those who don’t.

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