L'Envers du Décor: Réflexions sur Haïti et la Crise Mondiale (French Edition)

Today, developed countries and emerging markets are progressively acknowledging their level of exposure to, and suffering from, the ongoing global crisis. Moving to the backstage, one can see that Haiti, a developing country with recent media coverage labeled as "disaster porn", has not been immune. In this country, wrecked by an earthquake, and a subsequent UN-related cholera outbreak, people are, as for other countries, in a state of denial in regard to the global crisis. However, they face unique challenges and opportunities, due to their incomplete westernization and their intimate familiarity with poverty, or austerity, as it is modestly called today. Lacking the common indicators used in other countries, Haitians can wander, through the various layers of their mind, to realize whether this crisis is an opportunity or a threat. The differentiating factor, for them, is that common sense and experience dictate that institutional approach is not a recipe for success. Hence, the crisis, and its enabling factors, are approached through the unconscious, subconscious and conscious mind. Paradigms, beliefs and behaviors are bluntly analyzed. Obviously, this book does not attempt to be politically correct.