{"product_id":"humanitarian-crime-disasters-dispossession-and-resistance-in-port-au-prince-9781032750736","title":"Humanitarian Crime: Disasters, Dispossession, and Resistance in Port-Au-Prince","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Angela Sherwood\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Globalization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book to theorise humanitarian power within the \u003cem\u003ecrimes of the powerful \u003c\/em\u003etradition. It offers a compelling account of the structural forces embedded in humanitarian institutions and the practices and forms of legitimation through which the violent effects of humanitarian intervention are typically produced and obscured. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on post-earthquake Haiti, a setting marked by large-scale international involvement and deep historical and colonial inequalities, this book examines how humanitarian organisations helped shape the city's post-disaster\u003cbr\u003elandscape. It shows how humanitarian actors, working alongside the Haitian state, contributed to the reproduction of homelessness, landlessness, and urban exclusion through their management of displacement camps, their\u003cbr\u003ereliance on property-based models of assistance, and their role in coercive programmes of camp closure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on extensive fieldwork, interviews, and archival research, this book develops the concept of \u003cem\u003ehumanitarian crime\u003c\/em\u003e to illuminate the state processes, institutional arrangements, and material structures that underpin violent\u003cbr\u003eoutcomes in humanitarian settings. At the same time, it centres the voices of Haitian civil society and affected communities, highlighting how those subjected to state-humanitarian expulsions interpret, contest, and resist the\u003cbr\u003eharms inflicted through humanitarian governance. It foregrounds land occupations and informal urbanisation as key forms of resistance that expose and challenge the dispossession inscribed within the everyday workings of\u003cbr\u003ehumanitarian intervention. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy situating humanitarianism within wider relations of sovereignty, accumulation, and control, this book opens new pathways for studying humanitarian power and its role within contemporary global violence. It\u003cbr\u003ealso establishes a research agenda for understanding\u003cem\u003e humanitarian crime\u003c\/em\u003e and for examining how contemporary crises, not least increasingly frequent climate disasters, are being governed in ways that only deepen precarity and dispossession. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is essential reading for all those engaged in work on crimes of the powerful, disaster recovery, state and corporate crime, and Caribbean Studies.","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47772915040407,"sku":"9781032750736","price":12484.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781032750736.webp?v=1777976631","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/humanitarian-crime-disasters-dispossession-and-resistance-in-port-au-prince-9781032750736","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}