... of California Susanne Klien Japan 2011 triple disaster tsunami earthquake nuclear meltdown reconstruction Tokyo civil society rural communities PERSPECTIVE Recovering from Disaster, Reinventing Japan? SUSANNE KLIEN SUSANNE KLIEN is an associate professor in the Modern Japa- nese Studies...

...Mark Schuller NGOs and other foreign entities took control of the humanitarian response to the 2010 earthquake, creating parallel structures that contributed to the very duplication and state weaknesses that NGOs were supposed to solve. 68 NGOs and other foreign entities took control...

... of the University of California Amanda Snellinger Nepal constitution separatism ethnic politics youth Madhesi movements Maoists Tarai Birganj Kathmandu earthquake India Constituent Assembly PERSPECTIVE In May 2013 I arrived in Birganj, a border town in southern Nepal s Parsa district, to do...

...William W. Finan, Jr. A new book meditates on Haiti before and since the 2010 earthquake, and about the do-gooders who visit, armed with “a kind of condescension filled with pity.” Farewell Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti , by Amy Wilentz . Simon and Schuster , 2013 . © 2013 Current...

...Robert Maguire Port-au-Prince suffered most of the damage from a January 2010 earthquake. Even so, domestic and international aid efforts need to encompass the neglected rest of the country. © 2011 Current History. All rights reserved. 2011 The Regents of the University of California...