Beverly Bell
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801452123
- eISBN:
- 9780801468322
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801452123.003.0017
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines the initiatives launched by social movements in Haiti to address ordinary people's housing problems in the post-earthquake era. More than a thousand displaced persons camps have ...
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This chapter examines the initiatives launched by social movements in Haiti to address ordinary people's housing problems in the post-earthquake era. More than a thousand displaced persons camps have cropped up in Port-au-Prince after the earthquake. These camps had become a stark reminder of social neglect. Hunger, illness, and sleep deprivation were the norm. Those living in the camps faced constant risks of violence and abuse, not to mention the health risks posed by rats, flies, and mosquitoes. This chapter looks at the Force for Reflection and Action on Housing, a coalition of camp committees, community groups, and nonprofits whose mission has been secure, quality homes for everyone. It also discusses the social movements' vision for a national housing policy that includes a law guaranteeing the right to housing, equal access to women in housing and land ownership, and public housing on state land.Less
This chapter examines the initiatives launched by social movements in Haiti to address ordinary people's housing problems in the post-earthquake era. More than a thousand displaced persons camps have cropped up in Port-au-Prince after the earthquake. These camps had become a stark reminder of social neglect. Hunger, illness, and sleep deprivation were the norm. Those living in the camps faced constant risks of violence and abuse, not to mention the health risks posed by rats, flies, and mosquitoes. This chapter looks at the Force for Reflection and Action on Housing, a coalition of camp committees, community groups, and nonprofits whose mission has been secure, quality homes for everyone. It also discusses the social movements' vision for a national housing policy that includes a law guaranteeing the right to housing, equal access to women in housing and land ownership, and public housing on state land.
Jaro Stacul
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719096846
- eISBN:
- 9781526103925
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719096846.003.0002
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Global
Jaro Stacul investigates the consequences of an Italian party’s discourse about the countryside, and how it has dovetailed with local concerns. He discusses the rise of the Lega Nord (Northern ...
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Jaro Stacul investigates the consequences of an Italian party’s discourse about the countryside, and how it has dovetailed with local concerns. He discusses the rise of the Lega Nord (Northern League) in the 1990s, a time of national disenchantment with established parties, then widely seen as deeply corrupt. Leaders of the populist Lega called for the recreation of a lost ‘authenticity’ and a traditional sense of community, propagating an idea of a northern Italian culture, denigrating southerners as lazy and parasitic, and criticizing the state as the distant imposer of an alienating ‘civilization’. To these rhetoricians, it was the northern countryside which was the repository of laudatory values, in particular an ethic of hard work. To the Trentino villagers, with whom he did fieldwork and whose area had not been incorporated into Italy until the end of the First World War, the Lega was attractive because they regarded the state as remote, if not indeed foreign, and as responsible for creating a National Park in their area. The state saw the park as a wild, public space; locals saw it as a restrictive practice which curtailed the exercise of their traditional practices, such as hunting, which they had carried out on land they regarded as cultivated, in effect private property.Less
Jaro Stacul investigates the consequences of an Italian party’s discourse about the countryside, and how it has dovetailed with local concerns. He discusses the rise of the Lega Nord (Northern League) in the 1990s, a time of national disenchantment with established parties, then widely seen as deeply corrupt. Leaders of the populist Lega called for the recreation of a lost ‘authenticity’ and a traditional sense of community, propagating an idea of a northern Italian culture, denigrating southerners as lazy and parasitic, and criticizing the state as the distant imposer of an alienating ‘civilization’. To these rhetoricians, it was the northern countryside which was the repository of laudatory values, in particular an ethic of hard work. To the Trentino villagers, with whom he did fieldwork and whose area had not been incorporated into Italy until the end of the First World War, the Lega was attractive because they regarded the state as remote, if not indeed foreign, and as responsible for creating a National Park in their area. The state saw the park as a wild, public space; locals saw it as a restrictive practice which curtailed the exercise of their traditional practices, such as hunting, which they had carried out on land they regarded as cultivated, in effect private property.
