• Life in the camps is a daily struggle The latest information from Haiti is that 1.7 million displaced people are living in 1370 registered camps. Mark Schuller is there with eight student assistants doing research on a sample of the 861 officially registered camps for displaced people in the Port au Prince area. His [...]
From the Canadian Anthropological Society blog: Call for a new boundary crossing network: Anthropology and Mobility Convenor: Noel B. Salazar Mobility, as a concept-metaphor, captures the common impression that people’s life-worlds are in constant flux, with not only persons (including anthropologists), but also cultures, objects, capital, businesses, services, diseases, media, images, information, and ideas circulating [...]
• Speaking the g-word on the Hill Cultural anthropologist, medical doctor, charismatic social justice activist, and co-founder of Partners in Health, Paul Farmer came to DC last week and testified at a hearing on Capitol Hill of the Congressional Black Caucus. He argued that donors need to strengthen Haiti’s public sector: “How can there be [...]
Cultural anthropologist, medical doctor, and humanitarian activist, Paul Farmer of Harvard University and Partners in Health, testified to the Congressional Black Caucus on July 27. His focus was on Haiti. His pitch is that the aid money flowing into Haiti must not go only to NGOs, to non-state organizations, but also must be used to [...]
