25 Oct Try 3

It was an equally uplifting (“You have done a huge amount of work here in a short amount of time, and the result is a terrific bundle of ideas and approaches that is now very promising as a basis for a proposal…”) email. And a slightly depressing (“as you went on, you added more and more lenses and so we now need first to help you focus on/thru the particular lenses that you will be using directly, as well as describing the particular landscapes they will bring into view, before fine-tuning the lingo on the first page…”) email that then went on for three more rather ungainly paragraphs of suggestions. I’m mostly pleased. The notes and edits have been extremely helpful and beautifully crafted (of course!!!). I’m both excited and terribly, terribly afraid of the amount of work i have to do in the next week. I missed SeaCompression this week-end, and it looks like i’ll be missing Halloween next week-end. *Shiver*

For many who were already on the ground in Haiti, this outpouring of support to help rebuild the devastated nation has been seen as an opportunity to “build back better” (Farmer, 2010). But the questions remain: “better” how, where and for whom exactly? These questions are important to Haitians obviously, but they are also of vital interest to social scientists studying the intersections of development and global health. Haiti may be interpreted in this way as a distinctively “post-Washington Consensus” illustration of shifting approaches to development and international health, highlighting the new roles of NGOs and global agencies outside of DC, and also making manifest the complex and fractured political geography of micro interventions, micro financing and micro management produced by the wide diversity of non-governmental agencies involved. A promise and guiding idea underpinning many of these micro-interventions, is that development can be freed from macro control to be authentically ground-up. [add Good quote illustrating this? ] But given the outcomes of other post-Wash Consensu development experiments in post-disaster Aceh and Sri Lanka, the results could equally be another example of shock therapy as was seen in ????? [still working on examples] forced privatization, forced deregulation, forced market-led development, all secured through the micro-management of market mediation as opposed to the direct macro structural adjustment traditionally encored from above from the IMF and WB in DC.

It’s an excitingly more nuanced argument that what i started with a year ago! I love my chairs…so much brilliance crammed int the two of them. How’d i get so lucky? No i have to get to the business of defining health citizenship…