I'm writing a chapter in my dissertation about the role of the Rockefeller Foundation during the US occupation of Haiti (1915-1934). The RF was rather reluctant to engage with the US Navy in Haiti, and so brushed off several requests coming from the Brigade Commander's...
Health and disease are powerful tropes in the construction of hierarchies in global geopolitics. Health stands in as a marker of civilization, sanitation as a sign of modernity just as disease denotes barbarism and uncleanliness is an indicator backwardness (Eamon 1998; Goudsblom 1986; Rothschild BM...
I've come to this project with a sense that the Occupation in haiti was really an experiment, a kind of testing ground for what would be the future of Big D Development, as we know it. Today, while reading through JAG files, i found this...
First attempt at the less-than-exciting opening paragraphs of my introduction...
Sometimes it's important to remember to have a great sense of humor even in the most dire of topic. William Easterly asks, What if NCAA Basketball Tournaments Were Coached by Development Economists?...