Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti

by Vincent Joos

Book Overview

Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It describes the failures of international aid in Haiti while it analyzes examples of Haitian-based reconstruction and economic practices. By interrogating the relationship between indigenous uses of the cityscape and the urbanization of the countryside within a framework that centers on the violence of urban...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978820585
• ISBN13: 9781978820586
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher