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.
Moving beyond mainstream analyses that understand these groups--known as baz (base)--as apolitical, criminal gangs, Chelsey Kivland argu.
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