Killing with Kindness: Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs

by Mark Schuller

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813553636
• ISBN13: 9780813553634
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary