Tectonic Shifts: Haiti Since the Earthquake

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The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti’s capital on January 12, 2010 will probably be remembered as one of the crucial world’s deadliest disasters. The earthquake used to be a tragedy that gripped the nation—and the world. But as a disaster it also magnified the social ills that have beset this island nation that sits squarely in the US’ diplomatic and geopolitical shadow. The quake exposed centuries of underdevelopment, misguided economic policies, and foreign aid interventions that have contributed to rampant inequality and social exclusion in Haiti.

Tectonic Shifts offers a diverse on-the-ground set of perspectives about Haiti’s cataclysmic earthquake and the aftermath that left more than 1.5 million individuals homeless. Following a critical analysis of Haiti’s heightened vulnerability because of centuries of foreign policy and most recently neoliberal economic policies, this book addresses a range of latest realities, foreign impositions, and political changes that occurred all over the relief and reconstruction periods.

Analysis of these realities offers tools for engaged, principled reflection and action. Essays by scholars, journalists, activists, and Haitians still at the island and those within the Diaspora highlight the many struggles that the Haitian people face lately, providing lessons not only for those impacted and involved in relief, but for people engaged in struggles for justice and transformation in other parts of the world.

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