Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Foreword xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction: Thirty-Five Seconds 1
6. 1. We Don’t Have Enough Water to Make Tears: Surviving the Earthquake, or Not 12
7. 2. What We Have, We Share: Solidarity Undergirds Rescue and Relief 19
8. 3. Pearl of the Antilles: The Political Economy of Peril 27
9. 4. Maroon Man: Social Movements throughout History 32
10. 5. We Will Carry You On: The Women’s Movement 41
11. 6. You Can’t Eat Okra with One Finger: Community-Run Humanitarian Aid 49
12. 7. Fragile as a Crystal (Tales from Three Months Out) 57
13. 8. Children of the Land: Small Farmers and Agriculture 63
14. 9. Grains and Guns: Foreign Aid and Reconstruction 72
15. 10. The Ones Who Must Decide: Social Movements in the Reconstruction 86
16. 11. Our Bodies Are Shaking Now: Violence against Girls and Women 93
17. 12. The Creole Connection: People-to-People Aid and Solidarity across Borders 102
18. 13. We’ve Lost the Battle, but We Haven’t Lost the War (Tales from Six Months Out) 112
19. 14. Social Fault Lines: Class and Catastrophe 118
20. 15. Monsanto Seeds, Miami Rice: The Politics of Food Aid and Trade 124
21. 16. Home: From Tent Camp to Community 131
22. 17. For Want of Twenty Cents: Children’s Rights and Protection 140
23. 18. The Super Bowl of Disasters: Profiting from Crisis 146
24. 19. The Commonplace amid the Catastrophic (Tales from Nine Months Out) 154
25. 20. Beyond Medical Care: The Health of the Nation 159
26. 21. Hold Strong: The Pros and Pitfalls of Resilience 168
27. 22. Mrs. Clinton Will Never See Me Working There: The Offshore Assembly Industry 176
28. 23. The Central Pillar: Peasant Women 184
29. 24. Elections (In the Time of Cholera) 190
30. 25. We Will Never Fall Asleep Forgetting (Tales from Twelve Months Out) 197
31. Epilogue: Bringing It Back Home 201
32. Notes 207
33. Index 225