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

Description: There Is No More Haiti by Greg Beckett 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Flap "Deeply researched and lived, Greg Becketts portrait of Port-au-Prince is full of insights about an often misunderstood city at one of its least understood times."--Jonathan M. Katz, author of The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster "A knowledgeable and moving tour dhorizon of the crises that Haitians have lived through since the fall of the Duvalier dynasty: coups, countercoups, occupations, hurricanes, and the devastating 2010 earthquake. Greg Beckett navigates this scene alongside insightful and witty Haitians from all walks of life. Its an intriguing look at the way people manage to survive intense and ongoing political and natural trauma."--Amy Wilentz, author of Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti "Exceptionally written, Greg Becketts book is a poignant, very human tale that highlights how people in Haiti endure and respond to crisis. It offers rich ethnographic detail, revealing diverse local perspectives on multiple events from the catastrophic to the everyday. There Is No More Haiti is an important and needed text, centering human faces, experiences, understandings, and voices behind the statistics and honoring their dignity."--Mark Schuller, author of Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti "Simply put, this is a breathtaking work: overwhelmingly smart, overwhelmingly careful and deliberate in its attentions, and, above all, overwhelmingly filled with love for the places and people whose lives (and deaths) it seeks to understand."--Patrick Anderson, author of Autobiography of a Disease "Greg Beckett is among a new generation of young scholars who offers a non-Eurocentric path for understanding the other. With solid theoretical credentials, he brings an urgently needed and sincere humanistic empathy to his subjects--the only way to make sense of our collective present."--Raoul Peck, filmmaker and director of I Am Not Your Negro Author Biography Greg Beckett is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Western University in Ontario. Table of Contents List of Photographs Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Forest and the City 2. Looking for Life 3. Making Disorder 4. Between Life and Death 5. Aftermath Postscript Notes References Index Review "Becketts deep and thoughtful ethnography effectively demonstrates that disorder is not the absence of order, but is a structured confluence of scripts and externalities that are profoundly felt by people in Haiti." * LSE Review of Books *"While the author seeds his book with historical context, his strong narrative style emphasizes individual people... who work in the informal economy and with whom he becomes fast friends while meticulously studying their lives." * Diplomat & International Canada *"In There is No More Haiti: Life and Death in Port-au-Prince, Greg Beckett combines a decade of ethnographic research with a novelists sensitivity to style to create a deeply empathetic and theoretically expansive portrait of urban life in Haiti between 2002 and 2006. . . . Overall, the book is a remarkable contribution to Haitian studies, presented with such accessible and beautiful prose that it is suitable both for experts and undergraduates." * H-Net *"At once poignant and urgent, There is No More Haiti develops a slow and intensively empathic ethnography that unfolds . . . through, and despite, a furiously rapid, chaotic historical moment marked by multiple crises." * New West Indian Guide * "There Is No More Haiti is an essential book for thinking about Haiti today." * Religious Studies Review * Review Quote "Becketts deep and thoughtful ethnography effectively demonstrates that disorder is not the absence of order, but is a structured confluence of scripts and externalities that are profoundly felt by people in Haiti." Details ISBN0520378997 Author Greg Beckett Pages 312 Year 2020 ISBN-10 0520378997 ISBN-13 9780520378995 Short Title There Is No More Haiti Language English Format Paperback Publication Date 2020-11-10 UK Release Date 2020-11-10 Imprint University of California Press Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2020-11-10 US Release Date 2020-11-10 Illustrations 10 b-w photos Publisher University of California Press Subtitle Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince DEWEY 306.097294 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2020-11-09 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159510079;

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