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Killing with Kindness : Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs / Mark Schuller.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 5 photographs 4 figuresContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813553627
  • 9780813553641
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1/0425097294 23
LOC classification:
  • RA418.3.H35 S38 2012
  • RA418.3.H35 S38 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Doing Research during a Coup -- 1. Violence and Venereal Disease: Structural Violence, Gender, and HIV/AIDS -- 2. "That's Not Participation!": Relationships from "Below" -- 3. All in the Family: Relationships "Inside" -- 4. "We Are Prisoners!": Relationships from "Above" -- 5. Tectonic Shifts and the Political Tsunami: USAID and the Disaster of Haiti -- Conclusion: Killing with Kindness? -- Afterword: Some Policy Solutions -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index
Summary: Winner of the 2015 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology After Haiti's 2010 earthquake, over half of U.S. households donated to thousands of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in that country. Yet we continue to hear stories of misery from Haiti. Why have NGOs failed at their mission? Set in Haiti during the 2004 coup and aftermath and enhanced by research conducted after the 2010 earthquake, Killing with Kindness analyzes the impact of official development aid on recipient NGOs and their relationships with local communities. Written like a detective story, the book offers rich enthnographic comparisons of two Haitian women's NGOs working in HIV/AIDS prevention, one with public funding (including USAID), the other with private European NGO partners. Mark Schuller looks at participation and autonomy, analyzing donor policies that inhibit these goals. He focuses on NGOs' roles as intermediaries in "gluing" the contemporary world system together and shows how power works within the aid system as these intermediaries impose interpretations of unclear mandates down the chain-a process Schuller calls "trickle-down imperialism."
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Doing Research during a Coup -- 1. Violence and Venereal Disease: Structural Violence, Gender, and HIV/AIDS -- 2. "That's Not Participation!": Relationships from "Below" -- 3. All in the Family: Relationships "Inside" -- 4. "We Are Prisoners!": Relationships from "Above" -- 5. Tectonic Shifts and the Political Tsunami: USAID and the Disaster of Haiti -- Conclusion: Killing with Kindness? -- Afterword: Some Policy Solutions -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index

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Winner of the 2015 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology After Haiti's 2010 earthquake, over half of U.S. households donated to thousands of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in that country. Yet we continue to hear stories of misery from Haiti. Why have NGOs failed at their mission? Set in Haiti during the 2004 coup and aftermath and enhanced by research conducted after the 2010 earthquake, Killing with Kindness analyzes the impact of official development aid on recipient NGOs and their relationships with local communities. Written like a detective story, the book offers rich enthnographic comparisons of two Haitian women's NGOs working in HIV/AIDS prevention, one with public funding (including USAID), the other with private European NGO partners. Mark Schuller looks at participation and autonomy, analyzing donor policies that inhibit these goals. He focuses on NGOs' roles as intermediaries in "gluing" the contemporary world system together and shows how power works within the aid system as these intermediaries impose interpretations of unclear mandates down the chain-a process Schuller calls "trickle-down imperialism."

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)