01760nam a22001457a 4500 528802 528802 250121b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Ward, Christopher 50316 The city the earthquake built: Internal displacement, international aid and state–society relations in the “fragile city” of Canaan Environment & Urbanization 36(2), Oct, 2024: p.440-459 This paper revisits the case of Canaan – a massive informal settlement that emerged in the wake of the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti – in order to examine the often-forgotten aftermath of international aid programming in an urban, fragile-state context. Originally categorized as an (informal) internal displacement site, Canaan continued to expand in the years following the quake, reaching an estimated population of 300,000 by 2016. Using a qualitative case study of Canaan conducted nearly 15 years after its creation, the paper makes two interrelated arguments: first, that the ways in which the United Nations’ “durable solutions” framework is frequently understood and applied may be unrealistic and even deleterious for state–society relations in some fragile urban contexts. Second, even calls to shift (urban) internal displacement programming to a more development footing is far from a panacea if these interventions are not designed to be more politically nuanced, context-sensitive and modest about what can be achieved in such complex environments. Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09562478241276724 Aid effectiveness, Fragility, Haiti, Informal settlements, Internal displacement, State-building. 50317 Environment & Urbanization AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 403895 IIPA IIPA 2025-01-21 36(2), Oct, 2024: p.440- AR134995 2025-01-21 AR