A Man-Made Disaster: The Earthquake of January 12, 2010— A Haitian Perspective

Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick

doi:10.1177/0021934710396709

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“…The past 30 years has shown the region’s relentless suffering from the devastating effects of natural disasters not only resulting from climatic factors but also health crises as well. In more recent years, the devastation of countries such as St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Montserrat (by volcanic eruptions), the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Haiti and the Bahamas (by hurricanes), and Haiti and Puerto Rico (by earthquakes) have gained global attention and demonstrated the high levels of vulnerabilities faced by the region (Bellegarde-Smith, 2011 ). Similar to the effects of natural disasters, the Caribbean has also been ravaged by the effects of manmade disasters as well.…”

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Understanding Caribbean Early Childhood Teachers’ Professional Experiences During the COVID-19 School Disruption

Abdul-Majied

Kinkead-Clark

Burns

2022

Early Childhood Educ J

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and resulting school closures, present a serious threat to young children’s care, learning, and the achievement of their developmental potential (UNESCO, 2020a ). Disruptions to normal school functioning worldwide have presented challenges for teachers who were generally unprepared to teach using different methodologies (United Nations in Policy brief: Education during Covid-19 and beyond, 2020). Since a child’s right to care and education extends even during emergencies this study was conceptualized to better understand the professional experiences of early childhood teachers as they navigated the teaching learning process during the COVID-19 school disruption. A multiple site qualitative case study was designed to answer two research questions: What were the professional experiences of Caribbean Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) teachers at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic period? And how did Caribbean ECCE teachers adapt to ensure continuity of children’s rights to access education? Almog and Perry-Hazan’s ( 2012 ) conceptualisation of the Right to Adaptable Education provided the theoretical foundation for this study. Data were collected using a questionnaire sent to teachers from seven Caribbean countries. Five themes were extricated from the findings: changed teacher experiences, significant new understandings, changed teacher collaboration practices, changed individual qualities, and warning signs for support. We conclude by making recommendations for macro level support for the ECCE sector during educational disruptions.

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confidence: 99%

Understanding Caribbean Early Childhood Teachers’ Professional Experiences During the COVID-19 School Disruption

Abdul-Majied

Kinkead-Clark

Burns

2022

Early Childhood Educ J

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“…7 This is the slogan used by then President Michel Martelly to promote Haiti as a "destination" for foreign investors following the earthquake. For further considerations of the earthquake as a man-made disaster, see Bellegarde-Smith (2011) and Munro (2014). (Trouillot 1990;Shamsie 2014).…”

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Stitching Time: Artisanal Collaboration and Slow Fashion in Post-disaster Haiti

Hammond

2018

Fashion Theory

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The promotion of the textile and garment industries as a development strategy following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and a US-backed return to garment assembly lines has prompted an interrogation of some of the local impacts of transnational manufacturing practices in this context. This essay seeks to evaluate alternative fashion practices and social enterprises in Haiti that are currently challenging and disassembling the contemporary forms of slavery predominant in offshore low-wage garment manufacturing. These slower "ethical fashion" cooperatives integrate traditional Haitian skills and cultural konesans (knowledge) with international design languages and market savoir-faire to produce unique handcrafted pieces for the global fashion market. Yet, as this paper argues, these collaborations reveal ongoing neo-colonial inequalities that sideline Haitian agency. Their uneven modes of production and marketing strategies often involve short-term interventions by Western fashion designers that undermine Haitian expertise. This examination of artisan "development" therefore seeks to situate these enterprises in a longer history of sustainability in Haiti. It considers how stitching cloth in response to disaster can retrace the stories of loss and survival of communities and mediate cultural knowledge.

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“…In the context of Haiti for example, Farmer (1994) documents how US interventionist and imperialist policies towards Haiti were justified according to just such tropes: the "isolation" and "primitivism" of Haiti and Haitians. Other authors have highlighted how similar trophes have been employed in Responses to post-earthquake Haiti post-earthquake Haiti (Bellegarde-Smith, 2010;Farmer, 2011;Lundy, 2010;Zanotti, 2010). In brief, policy frames, discourse and the resulting plans and practices draw upon and reproduce varied understandings of race, culture and history with implications for local level recovery and resilience.…”

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Framing responses to post‐earthquake Haiti

Bornstein

Lizarralde

Gould

et al. 2013

International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment

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Purpose -The aim of this paper is to add a new dimension to urban resilience by exploring how representations of disasters, reconstruction and human settlements are made, and how, by shaping plans and programs, they ultimately influence resilience. Design/methodology/approach -The paper draws on James Scott's notion of "legibility" to ask how different representations simplify complex realities and how they are transformed into plans and programs. The paper first outlines the various broad analytic lens used to examine legibility to portray post-disaster reconstruction, drawing on international literature and policies. The paper then focuses on post-earthquake Haiti and analyzes eight reconstruction plans and reviews design proposals submitted for the Building Back Better Communities program to explore how different stakeholders portrayed the disaster, identified the reconstruction challenges and proposed to address human settlements. Findings -Representations of the disaster, the reconstruction challenge and the housing problem were quite varied. While the plans assumed a very broad view of the reconstruction challenge (one that goes beyond the representations found in the literature), the BBBC program adopted a very narrow view of it (one that the literature condemns for failing to achieve sustainable resilience).Research limitations/implications -The empirical research is exploratory, suggesting an approach that throws a new light on the analysis of plans and programs for improved resilience. Practical implications -The study suggests that the representations that decision makers, institutions and organizations make of the world ultimately establish the framework in which resilience is constructed. Originality/value -The lens of legibility confirms that the expression of different representations makes the world legible in different ways and therefore transforms the way in which resilience can be improved.

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A Man-Made Disaster: The Earthquake of January 12, 2010— A Haitian Perspective

Cited by 12 publications

References 2 publications

Understanding Caribbean Early Childhood Teachers’ Professional Experiences During the COVID-19 School Disruption

Understanding Caribbean Early Childhood Teachers’ Professional Experiences During the COVID-19 School Disruption

Stitching Time: Artisanal Collaboration and Slow Fashion in Post-disaster Haiti

Framing responses to post‐earthquake Haiti

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