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First edition

1 online resource (vii, 298 pages) : illustrations

ISBN 9781477327821 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781477327814 (print)

Print version: Chancy, Myriam J. A., 1970- Harvesting Haiti : Reflections on Unnatural Disasters. First edition. Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, c2023 vii, 298 pages ISBN 9781477327814

Includes index

Part V looks to the impact of the earthquake on the already vexed relationship between Haiti and their neighbor, the Dominican Republic. The book concludes with a reflection from five years after the earthquake, and then the tenth anniversary of the disaster"-- Provided by publisher..

The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010 was a debilitating event that followed decades of political, social, and financial issues. Leaving over 250,000 people dead, 300,000 injured, and 1.5 million people homeless, the earthquake has had lasting repercussions on a struggling nation. In this book, Myriam Chancy encourages us to look at Haiti and to continue to examine the historical and present structures that have resulted in Haiti’s post-earthquake conditions. And as Haiti is newly recovering from another 7.2 magnitude earthquake from August 2021, the questions that Chancy seeks to answer and the stories she aims to document seem all the more urgent. Originally presented at invited campus talks, published as columns for a newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago, or other venues, the essays in Harvesting Haiti respond to a particular moment and preserve the reactions and urgencies in the years following the 2010 disaster..

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(OCoLC)1373344554