Transcript of Social Media and Haiti Disaster
- 1. Haiti Relief: Disaster Capitalism and the potentials of
Social Media Courtney Moles Global Studies Major May 2011
- 3. Political Ecology
- Political economy + ecological analysis = political
ecology
- 4. A political ecology approach recognizes that the social
institutional arrangements through which human beings access and
alter the physical environment in their quest for sustenance and
shelter are key elements in the evolution of disasters. -Anthony
Oliver-Smith (angry earth p 30)
- 6. Disaster Capitalism;
- Treating disasters as exciting economic opportunity
- 7. With unnerving foresight, Alex Dupuy, a professor of
sociology at Wesleyan University, summed up Clinton and Martellys
Wednesday meeting nearly a year ago when he said, The dual strategy
of urban sweatshops and laissez-faire agriculture, which
subordinated Haiti in the 1980s, is now its reconstruction
plan.(AFP)
- 8. Social Media