St. Louis Anthropocene: displacement & replacement
JJPA brief essay about St. Louis' notorious eminent domain history--
--along with 2 recent St. Louis Post-Dispatch articles about "urban renewal" projects that are scheduled to reoccupy the Mill Flats area, which hosted the most notorious episode of displacement of African-American communities: the Chouteau Greenway project (will it serve or displace low-income St. Louisans?); and SLU's Mill Creek Flats high-rise project, which certainly will, and whose name seems to me an especially tone-deaf if gutsy move...
https://humanities.wustl.edu/features/Margaret-Garb-St-Louis-Eminent-Domain
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tamar.rogoszinski"The Fukushima Effect: A New Geopolitan Terrain", edited by Richard A. Hindmarsh, Rebecca Priestley.
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tamar.rogoszinskiThe author is Byron Good, Ph.D. He is an American anthropologist and teaches medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School. His main focus is mental illness and the cultural meanings of it. He also explores patient narratives and the perspectives of non-Western medical knowledge and compareds different mental health systems. He has done research in Iran, Indonesia, and the US. He has several publications including papers, books, and editted volumes.
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tamar.rogoszinskiBrian Concannon, executive director of the Insitute of Justice and Democracy in Haiti, a nonprofit in Boston. Fights for human rights on the island of Haiti.
Carrie Kahn, NPR. National Public Radio, news source.
President Michel Martelly, Haitain president.
United Nations
Nepalese soldiers - brought with them cholera to Haiti. Sent from UN.
Ban Ki-moon - U.N. Secretary-General - led plan to eradicate cholera.
Haitain Ministries of Health and Environment - not trusted by the world to control a trust fund
Jake Johnson - Center for Economic Policy and Research - Washington
US Government Accountability Office - pricing the cost of building new housing too high
Mission of Hope - NGO helping build houses
US Congressmen - demaing UN Secretary-General take responsibility for outbreak
US District Court Judge J. Paul Oetken - rejected class-action lawsuit that saught to compel the UN to compensate victims and fund cholera eradication
Beatrice Lindstrom - lawter at the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
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tamar.rogoszinskiThe bibliography shows that the author did extensive research and even cited herself a few times. She uses MSF reports and essays, information from the United Nations, WHO, and other experts.
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tamar.rogoszinskiEmergency responders are portrayed in the film as being understaffed and overwhelmed by the outbreak. They show hospitals having to turn patients away due to being overwhelmed. They also show how Liberians were frustrated with this lack of communication between doctors and the patients. Nurses started dying from the disease, forcing hospitals to close. Responders had to deal with the community's denial of the disease, the lack of education, the rapid spread, and the number of patients.