TY - BOOK ID - 77881694 TI - Democratic insecurities : violence, trauma, and intervention in Haiti PY - 2010 SN - 128266087X 9786612660870 0520947916 9780520947917 9780520260535 9780520260542 0520260538 0520260546 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Democratization KW - Political violence KW - Humanitarian assistance KW - Intervention (International law) KW - Military intervention KW - Diplomacy KW - International law KW - Neutrality KW - Humanitarian aid KW - International relief KW - Violence KW - Political crimes and offenses KW - Terrorism KW - Democratic consolidation KW - Democratic transition KW - Political science KW - New democracies KW - Haiti KW - Politics and government KW - Social problems KW - Political systems KW - Internal politics KW - abuse of power. KW - activists. KW - anthropology. KW - cia intervention. KW - colonialism. KW - democracy. KW - ethics. KW - ethnography. KW - female survivors. KW - foreign aid. KW - french colony. KW - government corruption. KW - haiti. KW - haitian victims. KW - history. KW - human rights. KW - humanitarian aid. KW - humanitarian mission. KW - humanitarian organizations. KW - humanitarian. KW - imperialism. KW - international aid. KW - justice. KW - military coup. KW - moral anthropology. KW - nonfiction. KW - political insecurity. KW - politics. KW - poverty. KW - social issues. KW - social science. KW - structural violence. KW - trauma. KW - violence against women. KW - violence. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77881694 AB - Democratic Insecurities focuses on the ethics of military and humanitarian intervention in Haiti during and after Haiti's 1991 coup. In this remarkable ethnography of violence, Erica Caple James explores the traumas of Haitian victims whose experiences were denied by U.S. officials and recognized only selectively by other humanitarian providers. Using vivid first-person accounts from women survivors, James raises important new questions about humanitarian aid, structural violence, and political insecurity. She discusses the politics of postconflict assistance to Haiti and the challenges of promoting democracy, human rights, and justice in societies that experience chronic insecurity. Similarly, she finds that efforts to promote political development and psychosocial rehabilitation may fail because of competition, strife, and corruption among the individuals and institutions that implement such initiatives. ER -