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Life at the Center - Erica Caple James

Life at the Center

Haitians and Corporate Catholicism in Boston
Buch | Softcover
318 Seiten
2024
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-40054-2 (ISBN)
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In Life at the Center, Erica Caple James traces how faith-based and secular institutions in Boston have helped Haitian refugees and immigrants attain economic independence, health, security, and citizenship in the United States. Using the concept of “corporate Catholicism,” James documents several paradoxes of assistance arising among the Catholic Church, Catholic Charities, and the Haitian Multi-Service Center: how social assistance produces and reproduces structural inequalities between providers and recipients; how these inequities may deepen aid recipients’ dependence and lead to resistance to organized benevolence; how institutional financial deficits harmed clients and providers; and how the same modes of charity or philanthropy that previously caused harm can be redeployed to repair damage and rebuild “charitable brands.” The culmination of more than a decade of advocacy and research on behalf of the Haitians in Boston, this groundbreaking work exposes how Catholic corporations have strengthened—but also eroded—Haitians’ civic power.

Erica Caple James is Professor of Medical Anthropology and Urban Studies at MIT and author of the award-winning book Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century ; 15
Zusatzinfo 24 color illustrations
Verlagsort Berkerley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 499 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Christentum
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 0-520-40054-2 / 0520400542
ISBN-13 978-0-520-40054-2 / 9780520400542
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