{"product_id":"street-sovereigns-young-men-and-the-makeshift-state-in-urban-haiti-hardback-9781501746987","title":"Street Sovereigns; Young Men and the Makeshift State in Urban Haiti (Hardback) 9781501746987","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStreet Sovereigns\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eYoung Men and the Makeshift State in Urban Haiti\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChelsey L. Kivland (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501746987\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 February 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e306 pages, 22 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 1 b\u0026amp;w line drawing, 2 maps - 1 Line drawings, black and white - 22 Halftones, black and white - 2 Maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eKivland's fine-grained portraits of her interlocutors are poignant and compelling.\u003c\/p\u003e (American Anthropologist) \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStreet Sovereigns\u003c\/i\u003e, Chelsey Kivland draws on years of ethnographic research to reframe the way we think about political agency, sovereignty, and statemaking in Haiti. Kivland masterfully weaves an analysis that is rich in ethnographic detail and sophisticated in theoretical insight. There is a remarkable humility to her analysis; the result is a work of deep and profound respect.\u003c\/p\u003e (New West Indian Guide)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapse—and at what cost?\u003c\/b\u003e 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 to secure representation, resources, and jobs for themselves and neighbors. Moving beyond mainstream analyses that understand these groups—known as\u003ci\u003e baz\u003c\/i\u003e (base)—as apolitical, criminal gangs, Chelsey Kivland argues that they more accurately express a novel mode of street politics that has resulted from the nexus of liberalizing orders of governance and development with longstanding practices of militant organizing in Haiti.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKivland demonstrates how the baz exemplifies an innovative and effective platform for intervening in the contemporary political order, while at the same time reproducing gendered and generational hierarchies and precipitating contests of leadership that exacerbate neighborhood insecurity. Still, through the continual effort to reconstitute a state that responds to the needs of the urban poor, this story offers a poignant lesson for political thought: one that counters prevailing conceptualizations of the state as that which should be flouted, escaped, or dismantled. The baz project reminds us that in the stead of a vitiated government and public sector the state resurfaces as the aspirational bedrock of the good society. \"We make the state,\" as baz leaders say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Baz\u003cbr\u003e 1. Defense\u003cbr\u003e 2. History\u003cbr\u003e 3. Respect\u003cbr\u003e 4. Identity\u003cbr\u003e 5. Development\u003cbr\u003e 6. Gender\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Spiral\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607788679448,"sku":"9781501746987","price":109.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/street-sovereigns-young-men-and-the-makeshift-state-in-urban-haiti-hardback-9781501746987","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}