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Street Sovereigns Young Men and the Makeshift State in Urban Haiti
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Title
Street Sovereigns [electronic resource] : Young Men and the Makeshift State in Urban Haiti / Chelsey L. Kivland.
ISBN
1501747002
9781501747007
9781501747014
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"This book challenges conventional understandings of sovereignty and popular politics by ethnographically documenting how young men on the margins of urban Haiti seek power and respect by positioning themselves as chiefs of zones where the government is largely absent"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2020 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2020 Archaeology and Anthropology.
Project MUSE - 2020 Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Other formats
Print version: Kivland, Chelsey L., 1979- author. Street sovereigns Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 24, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : the baz
Defense
History
Respect
Identity
Development
Gender
Conclusion : falling into and out of the spiral.
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