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“Radio” is a hard word to pin down. It refers to a physical device with certain properties— perhaps a dial and antenna—but also to a whole world of sonic communication: newscasts, call- in shows, police dispatches, music streaming services— media that can be transmitted in any number of ways, on any number of devices. This dissertation focuses on Haitian music broadcasting as a social practice, meaning the programming formats, aesthetic conventions and listener experiences that make this particular medium function. I then trace those practices from Haiti’s terrestrial airwaves, out to the many digital media platforms that are ubiquitous in Haiti and Haitian-American communities today, arguing that there is a clear line of continuity across these various forms of radio. In doing so, this research offers a possible model for understanding the so-called 'digital revolution' of which we are all part, with the distinction that this model is rooted in media practices of the Global South. The four case studies that form the body of this dissertation are each framed around the specificity of Haitian radio—for both its producers and listeners—and progress outwards from the medium’s terrestrial roots, to its farthest digital extensions. Chapter One introduces some of the program formats and hosting techniques heard commonly on Haiti’s airwaves, with a special focus on the art of ‘animation,’ by which broadcasters bring music to life through verbal commentary. Chapter Two provides a deeper history of broadcasting in Haiti and the Caribbean, arguing that radio in the region has been transnational in scope from its earliest applications. In Chapter Three the focus shifts to the United States, and to the specific regulatory, social and geographic dynamics that have informed the development of radio broadcasting among Haitian immigrants here. Finally, Chapter Four tells the stories of two musicians who have themselves taken on many of the roles and practices of broadcasters, as an opportunity for comparative analysis. Each case study considers how a diverse range of practices and technologies can be understood as still radio—toujou radyo—while investigating the musical consequences and social impact of these digital extensions.

Ernest Gellner, Benedict Anderson, and Anthony Smith, all have differing theories pertaining to the origins of nations. While Gellner suggests nations are products of industrial societies, Anderson argues they are rather the consequences of print capitalism and Smith proposes nations are a modern phenomenon, which are generally, built upon pre-modern ethnic identities. As enlightening as these theories are, they fail to explain how a nation could form amongst an illiterate and culturally dissimilar enslaved population, namely Haiti. In pursuant of a framework to explain how the Haitian nation was theoretically constructed, this thesis postulated three primary stimuli propelled the emergence of a nation amongst Saint Domingue’s Black populace. First, via the deconstruction and reconstruction of their African ethnic identity the culturally diverse population became more homogenous. Second, the grapevine communication system within the Black population parallels the phenomenon achieved through Anderson’s conception of “print capitalism”. Third, the institutions of colonization/slavery in Saint Domingue, in and of, themselves created a unique environment in which nationalism and thus nation formation could occur.

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A place is more than a geograhic location. It is the sum of the immeasurable and sensible idiosyncracies that serve to identify as specifically as coordinate points can. Places are filled with traces of what once was and as such, they are imbued with the possibility of pointing to what could be. This thesis considers the potential of place in inspiring Architecture. / Master of Architecture

Dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Technology: Emergency Medical Care, Durban University of Technology, 2011. / Earthquakes are the most frequently occurring natural disaster around the world and it is associated with a large outpouring of humanitarian assistance from the world. Existing models for humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGO) focus on a variety of preparation and response decisions for aid distribution, but tend not to discuss medical rescue teams responding to international disasters and where they would fit into. Aim The aim of this study was to explore the preparedness of South African Non-Governmental Organisation relief teams for international earthquake response. The ultimate aim was to develop a framework for SA NGO teams responding to international earthquake disasters. Methods This qualitative study made use of a range of data collection tools including documentary sources and interviews, so that it could illuminate the study from all sides and to ensure all relevant data from people and organisations that span the globe could be collected. Conclusion and recommendations The result of the study was a conceptual map of the study recommendations which can be used in the development of a framework for improving South African NGO relief teams‟ response efficiency and effectiveness to international earthquake disasters. The research concludes with a series of recommendations which include: assigning the teams under a leading international academic and operational body and to identify qualified, well prepared and professional personnel on a database for rapid deployment. / Research and Post Graduate Development and Support.

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nutrition and Food Science, 1981. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND SCIENCE. / Bibliography: leaves 85-89. / by Patricia Ann Haggerty. / M.S.

Este trabalho acompanha a produção e a circulação transatlântica de uma das muitas imagens do Haiti: o Haiti popular, paisagem estético-antropológica amplamente proliferada na metade do século XX. Com a ajuda de uma série de fontes documentais e tendo o antropólogo franco-suíço Alfred Métraux (1902-1963) como um dos principais guias, a pesquisa explora a construção de três experiências institucionais no país nos anos 1940: o museu do Bureau d\'Ethnologie, fundado em 1941, a biblioteca/museu do projeto Unesco em Marbial, concebida em 1948, e o Centre d\'Art, inaugurado em 1944. Embora distintos, esses experimentos, que agregam os campos da museologia, da educação e da produção científica, compartilham não só um propósito semelhante o de fornecer ao Haiti uma cultura tradutível em objetos, formas e imagens , mas também uma mesma rede de circulação de pessoas: intelectuais, artistas, políticos e gestores haitianos e estrangeiros encarregados de sua produção. A análise proposta segue, com base em um exercício de imaginação etnográfica com os documentos, o trânsito de pessoas, coisas e ideias presentes na formação de tais instituições, desvendando o sentido do Haiti popular que passa a ser pendurado em paredes, apoiado em estantes e exibido em exposições. / This work follows the production and the transatlantic circulation of one of the many images of Haiti: the popular Haiti, an aesthetic-anthropological landscape widely proliferated in the middle of the XX century. Through a series of documentary sources and having the Franco-Swiss anthropologist Alfred Métraux (1902-1963) as main guide, the research explores the creation of three institutional experiences in the country in the 1940s: the Bureau d\'Ethnologie (1941), the Unesco museum / library in Marbial (1948) and the Centre d\'Art (1944). Despite its different natures, these experiments, which combine the fields of museology, education and scientific production, share not only a similar purpose - to provide Haiti a culture translateable into objects and images -, but also the same network of people in charge of its production: haitian and foreign intellectuals, artists, politicians and bureaucrats. The research is therefore an exercise of ethnographic imagination with the documents that follows the flow of people, things and ideas present in the emergence of these institutions, unraveling the meanings of the popular Haiti that was in this period displayed on walls, shelves and exhibitions.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves: 83-88)