Natural disasters have long been seen as naturally generated
events, but as scientific, technological, and social knowledge of
disasters has become more sophisticated, the part that people and
systems play in disaster events has become more apparent.
Production of Disaster and Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti
demonstrates how social processes impact disasters as they unfold,
through the distribution of power and resources, the use of
discourses and images of disaster, and the economic and social
systems and relations which underlie affected communities. The
authors show how these processes played out in post-earthquake
Haiti to set in motion the mechanics of the disaster industrial
complex to (re)produce disasters and recovery rather than bring
sustainable change. The book reveals that disaster and recovery
rhetoric helped create fertile conditions for neoliberal disaster
governance, militarized and digital humanitarianism,
non-profiteering, and disaster opportunism to flourish while
further disenfranchising marginalized populations. However, the
Haiti earthquake, as is the case with all disaster sites, was ripe
with mutual aid, community building, and collective action, all of
which further local resilience. The authors seek to re-construct
dominant discourses, policies, and practices to advance equitable,
participatory partnerships with local community actors and propose
a praxis for a people's recovery as an action-oriented framework
for resisting the transnational disaster industrial machinery. The
authors argue for new synergies in policymaking and program
development that can respond to emergencies and plan for true
long-term, sustainable development after disasters that focuses as
much on humans and the natural world as it does on economic
progress. Production of Disaster and Recovery in Post-Earthquake
Haiti will be of great interest to students and scholars of
disaster studies, humanitarian studies, development studies,
Haitian studies, geography and environmental studies, as well as to
non-governmental organizations, humanitarians, and policymakers.
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