Feb 06
Keynote address at the first annual conference on January 12, 2012, at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida, to commemorate the earthquake in Haiti and to encourage support for rebuilding efforts. Professor Robert Fatton Jr. is Julia Cooper Professor of Politics at the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, University of Virginia.
In the midst of the cataclysm Haitians showed a new sense of solidarity and citizenship that offered a glimpse of an alternative order; whether they can reignite this fleeting solidarity and finally understand that a better future requires the demise of the old ways of governing and producing, remains an open question…
