Damming the Flood keyword-social-anthropology In this wide-ranging and incisive

In this wide-ranging and incisive collection

Ursula LeGuin

stirred up by a news media dominated by the interests of the rich

is the concept of utopia still meaningful

Damming the Flood keyword-social-anthropology In this wide-ranging and incisiveLong before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in the late 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas (the flood) sought to liberate the island from decades of US backed dictatorial rule. Damming the Flood analyzes how and why the Lavalas governments led by President Jean Bertrand Aristide were overthrown, in 1991 and again in 2004, by the