Governing failure
Development, aid and audit in Haiti
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5681016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel M O’connor (0000-0001-5464-2031, University of Waterloo, corresponding author), Daniel O''Connor, Daniel O'Connor, Kara Brisson-Boivin, Kara Brisson‐boivin (Carleton University), Suzan Ilcan (0000-0003-3809-261X, Balsillie School of International Affairs) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 309-330 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conflict Security and Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1467-8802 • E-ISSN: 1478-1174 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14678802.2014.923150 |
| OpenAlex | W2036486233 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 23 |
This paper analyses practices for monitoring, tracking and assessing the international aid and reconstruction efforts in Haiti in an attempt to ‘build back better’ from the devastation of the January 2010 earthquake. We suggest that aid and reconstruction efforts filter through an international network of development organisations. This network also acts as a governing auspice, overseeing the transformation of Haiti from a ‘failed state’ to a strong democratic state. The central governing mechanism in this reconstruction effort involves the embedding of the ideas and practices of audit within Haitian political and civic culture. We reveal how, in Haiti, this culture of audit monitors aid and reconstruction through biopolitical technologies such as benchmarks and performance indicators, and through the constitution of calculable and accountable entities. More than a means of implementing disaster recovery, audit culture is a technique of biopolitical governance that aims to transform Haiti's state, civic institutions and citizens into entities accountable to an international development agenda
Audit · Business · Constitution · Corporate governance · Democracy · Political science · Politics · Disaster Management and Resilience · International Development and Aid · Law · Public Administration · Accounting · Finance
Global Governmentality
The security of governance
Governing the Poor
Seeing Like a State
Frontier Government
The rule of law, security-development and penal aid
State failure’ in theory and practice
Revisiting the Concept of the Failed State
When Does Aid Conditionality Work
National Enterprise Emergency
Audit Cultures
The Imperative of State-Building
Getting savages to fight barbarians
Privatizing Responsibility
Counting, Control and Calculation
Seeing Like a "Failed" NGO
Audit culture and Illiberal governance
Beyond Good Intentions
Ambiguity, Uncertainty, and Risk
Audit Culture and Grassroots Participation in Rural Haitian Development
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |