Street Sovereigns - Young Men and the Makeshift State in Urban Haiti

How do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapse-and at what cost? Street Sovereigns explores the risks and rewards taken by young men on the margins of urban Haiti who broker relations with politicians, state agents, and NGO workers in order secure representation, resources, and jobs for themselves and neighbors...

Summary

How do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapse—and at what cost? Street Sovereigns explores the risks and rewards taken by young men on the margins of urban Haiti who broker relations with politicians, state agents, and NGO workers in order secure representation, resources, and jobs for themselves and neighbors...

Product details

• Authors: Chelsey L. Kivland
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781501746987
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-4698-7
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Haiti, Städte, Stadtgemeinden, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Politik und Staat