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标题：Fear and Loathing in Haiti: Race and Politics of Humanitarian Dispossession
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作者：Beverley Mullings ; Marion Werner ; Linda Peake 等
期刊名称：ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies
印刷版ISSN：1492-9732
出版年度：2010
卷号：9
期号：3
页码：282-300
语种：English
出版社：ACME: Eine internationale Internet-Zeitschrift für kritische Geographie
摘要：The response by Western governments to the earthquake that devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010 throws into sharp relief the connections between racism and dispossession in times of humanitarian crisis. In this article, we take the 2010 earthquake as a point of departure in order to examine the purpose that circulating discourses of black criminality serve in narratives of humanitarianism and development in Haiti. Through an examination of debt, financial colonialism and neoliberal adjustment we explore the deep associations between racism, humanitarianism and ongoing capitalist processes. We conclude by outlining what it would take to dismantle the dispossessions that racialized discourses of blackness, criminality and failed development facilitate in Haiti.
关键词：natural disaster;racism;humanitarian crisis;debt;financial colonialism;neoliberalism;humanitarianism;capitalism