Structural Violence

inequality and the harm it causes

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Strength in What Remains

  • June 2, 2011

It’s no secret that one of my favorite books is Mountains Beyond Mountains, the biography of Dr. Paul Farmer, where Kidder traces Farmer’s adolescent life, formative years in Haiti as[…]

Featured · Read · Structural Violence as main theme · United States

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The Spirit Level

  • May 30, 2011

This might be the best book dealing with social issues that I’ve read in a long, long time.  It is also the only inequality, poverty, and global health related book,[…]

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Development in Poor Countries · International · Read

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The Uses of Haiti

  • May 30, 2011

If you want to understand anything about Haiti, you must read this book.  Paul Farmer is brilliant, simply brilliant, and this book takes us for an informative trip back in[…]

Featured · International · Read · War / Conflict

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Witness to War

  • May 29, 2011

I stumbled onto this book serendipitously, browsing on Amazon for books related to books related to some book on El Salvador that I’d enjoyed.  From a literary standpoint it’s not[…]

Development in Poor Countries · International · Read

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Rural Development

  • May 29, 2011

This is a brilliant but slim work from Robert Chambers.  Occasionally I stumble upon a text nearly as old as I am, sitting on someone’s shelf,  out of print for[…]

Health · Read

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Medicine and Culture

  • May 28, 2011

This is a very helpful book when it comes to thinking about health, and how each society views it.  Often in the United States we say “health” and we really[…]

Development in Poor Countries · Read

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The End of Poverty

  • May 20, 2011

I’ve previously written about The White Man’s Burden, by William Easterly, and I consider this to be its companion volume.  Easterly and Sachs are essentially competing economists, with Sachs playing[…]

Development in Poor Countries · Read

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White Man’s Burden

  • May 20, 2011

While in Nigeria I had the opportunity to read William Easterly’s The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So[…]

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The Umbrella of US Power

  • May 20, 2011

Written pre-9/11, this is a slim volume from Chomsky that outlines the broad strokes of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the ways in which the United States wantonly[…]

Development in Poor Countries · Read · War / Conflict

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War Games

  • May 14, 2011

Linda Polman has somehow been writing for years, ever so quietly, about the glaring problems within the humanitarian aid industry.  War Games, as the sub-title informs, is the story of[…]

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  • Recent Book Reviews

    • Strength in What RemainsJune 2, 2011
    • The Spirit LevelMay 30, 2011
    • The Uses of HaitiMay 30, 2011
    • Witness to WarMay 29, 2011
  • Recent Audio Reviews

    • Kenyan torture victims seek compensationApril 5, 2011
    • A day in the life of a SomalianMarch 16, 2011
    • Structural violence in popular musicMarch 5, 2011
    • Womb to TombFebruary 26, 2011
  • Recent Film Reviews

    • T-shirt TravelsJuly 4, 2011
    • Washing machines and maternal mortalityMay 22, 2011
    • Rx For SurvivalApril 30, 2011
    • An Iran primerMarch 30, 2011

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