Attraverso il corpo. Donne di una bidonville di Haiti e doni dello sviluppo

• Main Author: Pia Maria Koller
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: CLUEB 2014-04-01
• Series: EtnoAntropologia
• Subjects: cité soleil (haiti); militarization of humanitarian aid; structural violence in health; women and resistence
• Online Access: http://www.rivisteclueb.it/riviste/index.php/etnoantropologia/article/view/89

<p>Living in Cité Soleil, the largest haitian slum, is in itself a stigma, hindering access to social services and humanitarian aid. Repression and the increasing presence of armed gangs imposed a culture of silence. Violence became normality, particularly against women. Their survival strategies can be summarized by <em>kalkile</em>, calculate, pervading the individual and social body. When confronted with inequity in health, choices may turn into acts of resistance.</p><p>Still, women continue to organize collectively. Some counteract their despair with works of art, reproducing the beauty of what in their memory remains "the pearl of the Antilles": Haiti.</p><p> </p>