Killing with Kindness : : Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs / / Mark Schuller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Schuller, Mark,
• MitwirkendeR: Farmer, Paul,
• TeilnehmendeR: Farmer, Paul.
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 5 photographs 4 figures
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations and Tables --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: Doing Research during a Coup --; 1. Violence and Venereal Disease: Structural Violence, Gender, and HIV/AIDS --; 2. "That's Not Participation!": Relationships from "Below" --; 3. All in the Family: Relationships "Inside" --; 4. "We Are Prisoners!": Relationships from "Above" --; 5. Tectonic Shifts and the Political Tsunami: USAID and the Disaster of Haiti --; Conclusion: Killing with Kindness? --; Afterword: Some Policy Solutions --; Notes --; Glossary --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780813553641; 9783110688610
• DOI: 10.36019/9780813553641
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mark Schuller.

Winner of the 2015 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology 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 during the 2004 coup and aftermath and enhanced by research conducted after the 2010 earthquake, Killing with Kindness analyzes the impact of official development aid on recipient 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."