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Author Schuller, Mark, 1973- author.

Title Killing with kindness : Haiti, international aid, and NGOs / Mark Schuller.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 233 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Doing research during a coup -- Violence and venereal disease: structural violence, gender, and HIV/AIDS -- "That's not participation!": relationships from "below" -- All in the family: relationships "inside" -- "We are prisoners!": relationships from "above" -- Tectonic shifts and the political tsunami: USAID and the disaster of Haiti -- Conclusion: Killing with kindness -- Afterword: Some policy solutions.
Summary "After Haiti's 2010 earthquake, over half of U.S. households donated to thousands of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in that country. Yet we continue to hear stories of misery from Haiti. Why have NGOs failed at their mission? Set in Haiti following the 2004 coup and enhanced by research carried out after the 2010 earthquake, Killing with Kindness analyzes the impact of official development aid on recipient non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their relationships with local communities. Written like a detective story, the book offers rich enthnographic comparisons of two Haitian women's NGOs working in HIV/AIDS prevention, one with public funding (including USAID), the other with private European NGO partners. Mark Schuller looks at participation and autonomy, analyzing donor policies that inhibit these goals. He focuses on NGOs' roles as intermediaries in 'gluing' the contemporary world system together and shows how power works within the aid system as these intermediaries impose interpretations of unclear mandates down the chain--a process Schuller calls 'trickle-down imperialism'"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Social medicine -- Haiti.
AIDS (Disease) -- Haiti -- International cooperation.
Nonprofit organizations -- Haiti.
Social Medicine.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
International Cooperation.
Organizations, Nonprofit.
Haiti.
MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
AIDS (Disease) -- International cooperation. (OCoLC)fst00793848
Nonprofit organizations. (OCoLC)fst01038875
Social medicine. (OCoLC)fst01122637
Haiti. (OCoLC)fst01205135
Other Form: Print version: Schuller, Mark, 1973- Killing with kindness. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2012 9780813553627 (DLC) 2011046938 (OCoLC)774016611
ISBN 9780813553641 (electronic book)
0813553644 (electronic book)
9781283684033 (electronic book)
1283684039 (electronic book)
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