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Author: Benedetta Faedi Duramy Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 081356316X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 189
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Women in Haiti are frequent victims of sexual violence and armed assault. Yet an astonishing proportion of these victims also act as perpetrators of violent crime, often as part of armed groups. Award-winning legal scholar Benedetta Faedi Duramy visited Haiti to discover what causes these women to act in such destructive ways and what might be done to stop this tragic cycle of violence. Gender and Violence in Haiti is the product of more than a year of extensive firsthand observations and interviews with the women who have been caught up in the widespread violence plaguing Haiti. Drawing from the experiences of a diverse group of Haitian women, Faedi Duramy finds that both the victims and perpetrators of violence share a common sense of anger and desperation. Untangling the many factors that cause these women to commit violence, from self-defense to revenge, she identifies concrete measures that can lead them to feel vindicated and protected by their communities. Faedi Duramy vividly conveys the horrifying conditions pervading Haiti, even before the 2010 earthquake. But Gender and Violence in Haiti also carries a message of hope—and shows what local authorities and international relief agencies can do to help the women of Haiti.
Author: Benedetta Faedi Duramy Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 081356316X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 189
Book Description
Women in Haiti are frequent victims of sexual violence and armed assault. Yet an astonishing proportion of these victims also act as perpetrators of violent crime, often as part of armed groups. Award-winning legal scholar Benedetta Faedi Duramy visited Haiti to discover what causes these women to act in such destructive ways and what might be done to stop this tragic cycle of violence. Gender and Violence in Haiti is the product of more than a year of extensive firsthand observations and interviews with the women who have been caught up in the widespread violence plaguing Haiti. Drawing from the experiences of a diverse group of Haitian women, Faedi Duramy finds that both the victims and perpetrators of violence share a common sense of anger and desperation. Untangling the many factors that cause these women to commit violence, from self-defense to revenge, she identifies concrete measures that can lead them to feel vindicated and protected by their communities. Faedi Duramy vividly conveys the horrifying conditions pervading Haiti, even before the 2010 earthquake. But Gender and Violence in Haiti also carries a message of hope—and shows what local authorities and international relief agencies can do to help the women of Haiti.
Author: Benedetta Faedi Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This dissertation explores the conditions, incentives, and rationale that induce women victims of sexual violence to join armed groups and to become involved in community violence. Drawing on in-depth interviews, participant observation and focus group discussions collected during over one year of fieldwork in Haiti, the findings presented in this study reflect an attempt to deepen the understanding of women's decision-making processes, the interplay between gender-based women and women's violence, and, ultimately, the extent to which female aggression, committed in a context of armed violence, should be interpreted as a survival strategy or a deliberate choice for retaliation. Based on the empirical evidence collected, the three major factors that motivate women and girls to engage in criminal and community violence included their need to protect themselves and their families, their resentment toward state negligence and denial of their plight, and their dysfunctional desire to attain personal and social respect through retaliation. Important implications for legal and policy interventions may be derived from such an analysis. If women's violence is to be understood as a survival strategy within the coercive context of armed violence, the current Haitian legislation that provides solely for girls' and women's prosecution for the offense of association with armed groups, is at the very least inadequate. Conversely, according to international humanitarian and human rights legal norms, specific programs, along the lines of those implemented in other countries affected by armed conflict, should be effectively designed to dispel women's anger and resentment towards forms of community reconciliation as well as to adequately reintegrate them into society.
Author: Erica Caple James Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520947916 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 384
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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.
Author: Beverly Bell Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 0801469856 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 281
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Haiti, long noted for poverty and repression, has a powerful and too-often-overlooked history of resistance. Women in Haiti have played a large role in changing the balance of political and social power, even as they have endured rampant and devastating state-sponsored violence, including torture, rape, abuse, illegal arrest, disappearance, and assassination. Beverly Bell, an activist and an expert on Haitian social movements, brings together thirty-eight oral histories from a diverse group of Haitian women. The interviewees include, for example, a former prime minister, an illiterate poet, a leading feminist theologian, and a vodou dancer. Defying victim status despite gender- and state-based repression, they tell how Haiti's poor and dispossessed women have fought for their personal and collective survival. The women's powerfully moving accounts of horror and heroism can best be characterized by the Creole word istwa, which means both "story" and "history." They combine theory with case studies concerning resistance, gender, and alternative models of power. Photographs of the women who have lived through Haiti's recent past accompany their words to further personalize the interviews in Walking on Fire.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010 Languages : en Pages :
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More than a year after a devastating earthquake destroyed their homes, over a million displaced Haitians are still living in makeshift camps. Tents, sheets and tarpaulins offer women and girls little protection from the rape and other sexual violence sweeping through the overcrowded and insecure camps. Sexual and gender-based violence were widespread in Haiti before the earthquake, but displacement and camp conditions have increased the risks women and girls face. Prolonged displacement has seen a breakdown in the networks and structures, based on family and community, that had afforded women at least some degree of protection from violence, and support in dealing with its consequences. This report includes many testimonies of survivors of sexual violence in Haiti's camps. To improve their situation, Amnesty International is asking the new government to establish and implement a comprehensive plan to ensure protection and security for women and girls in Haiti's camps and to put women at the center of recovery and reconstruction efforts.
Author: Flore Marie Catheleen Heyliger Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This study offersis an attempt to gain insight into how Haitian women perceive sexual violence and howto understand the various interlocking structures intersecting with the perpetration of sexual violence against women in Léogâne, Haiti. I conducted 9 semi-structured interviews with women using the Life Story approach, I surveyed 231 women, and used I used data from a 51 applicants for a scholarship for women who have experienced or are at risk of experiencing sexual violence. Adopting a feminist theoretical framework, I will connect first person narratives to various structures that complicate and contribute to sexual violence in Haiti. I argue that women's perception of sexual violence is partly rooted in public health and fertility discourses. In addition, I theorize the voices of the women in my study as a way to fight epistemic violence. Throughout this process, my work consists of a critical reflection of my methodologies and my complicity in a masculinist and colonial framework. This thesis highlights not onlyjust the complexity of sexual violence and gender politics in Haiti, but also the complexity of doing research under difficult circumstances.
Author: Erica Caple James Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520260538 Category : Democratization Languages : en Pages : 385
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"Haiti's catastrophic earthquake follows a decade of crisis in governance and in everyday social life. Erica James's powerful ethnographic study shows how insecurity has been created, victimhood shaped, and trauma mediated under long-term conditions of grinding poverty punctuated by periodic disaster and interventions both external and domestic. The international and unintended consequences have commodified suffering, institutionalized insecurity, and fashioned a troubling and troubled 'democracy.' This book is a major achievement!"--Arthur Kleinman, author of What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life amidst Uncertainty and Danger "This is a remarkable piece of scholarship. Erica James has raised the bar as far as solid ethnographic inquiry in Haiti goes and draws on a diverse set of theoretical traditions in anthropology and in social theory. Her research will, I predict, open new doors."--Paul Farmer, Harvard University, founding director of Partners in Health "Erica James' book is a vivid descent into the ordinary of violence and insecurity, of suffering and trauma, in a country that seems to have never completely recovered from past French exploitation and American imperialism. Based on an ethnography of neighborhoods as well as of aid agencies, the inquiry courageously questions our categories of thought and models of action to confront Haitian endless tragedies, from victimization to humanitarianism, bringing together, in an unprecedented analysis, what she calls the economies of terror and the economies of compassion."--Didier Fassin, author of When Bodies Remember "Democratic Insecurities is a work of extraordinary depth that sets new standards on the themes of violence and social suffering. The power of the book lies in the great attention to historical and ethnographic detail of Haitian society and politics through which the doing and undoing of violence is rendered knowable as well as its command over social theory."--Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University "James draws us in via an astonishingly vivid and unsettling account of her first weeks in Haiti. This book is a highly sophisticated, compelling, and instructive read and an outstanding example of ethnography by one of the leading anthropologists in the field of trauma."--Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Harvard University
Author: Benedetta Faedi Duramy
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