Critique of Haiti's Political Leadership

Scorched Pearl of the Antilles

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

This book examines Haiti’s turbulent political landscape by exploring the socio-political and cultural forces that have shaped the nation’s trajectory. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it explores the underdevelopment of Haiti in three epochal frames; first, as a former colonial territory; second, as a singular independent nation amongst colonial territories; and third, as a nation in constant quagmire at the hands of foreign military interventions. The narrative reveals Haiti’s enduring vulnerability, identifying both internal and external factors that illuminate the perceived failures of the Haitian political class.The book further investigates institutional mechanisms that perpetuate political instability, demonstrating how weak leadership has relied on repression, corruption, and malversive practices to sustain power, thereby deepening Haiti’s structural fragility. By deploying key concepts such as structural vulnerability, heterodoxicality, macoutization, demounization, and political barons, Sylvain foregrounds cultural dynamics and socio-political practices that have reinforced systemic dysfunction. Through a dialectical and critical analytical framework, the work accentuates the complexity of Haiti’s long struggle for democracy and the persistent conflicts that undermine it. Drawing on a wide range of respected scholars, the book enriches contemporary debates on Haitian politics, moving beyond conventional Haitianist and Caribbeanist frameworks to offer a transformative understanding of Haiti’s political condition.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-08-10
Mått:148 x 210 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783032171139

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Politik och statsskick inom Samhälle och politik
Politiskt ledarskap inom Samhälle och politik

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Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American educator, poet, writer, social and literary critic, and translator whose work explores Haiti and the Haitian diaspora’s culture, politics, language, and religion. The author of several poetry collections in English and Haitian, Sylvain’s poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appear in leading journals including Ploughshares, Callaloo, Transition, Prairie Schooner, Agni, American Poetry Review, The Caribbean Writer, and African American Review. He holds degrees from UMass-Boston, Harvard, Boston University, and Brandeis University, where he was the Shirle Dorothy Robbins Creative Writing Prize Fellow. Sylvain teaches Global, Transnational, and Postcolonial Literature at Simmons University and recently served on Harvard’s History and Literature Tutorial Board. His publications include Education Across Borders (Beacon Press, 2022) and Underworlds (Central Square Press, 2018). His updated bilingual poetry collection, Unfinished Dreams /Rèv San Bout, will be published by Central Square Press (April 2026); his other poetry collections, Fire on the Tongue, will be published by Arrowsmith Press (May 4, 2026), Habits of Light, will be published by Finishing Line Press (July 7, 2026).

Innehållsförteckning

PART 1.- 1_Introduction: Haiti, Men Mwen (Here I Am)! Biding, Revolution, and Pauperization.- 2_Interrogating Haitian History and The Politics of Subordination.- 3_Heterodoxical Haiti and Structural Violence.- 4_ Haiti’s Crisis of Institutions and Ethical Imperative: Power, Leadership, and Constitutional Order.- PART II.- 5_The Macoutization of Haitian Politics.- 6_Haiti: Malversive State and Teetering Nation.- 7- The Violence of Executive Silence.- 8_ The Price of Poverty and the Ecology of Exploitation.- 9_ Haiti’s Structural Vulnerability at the Juncture of Ineptitude.- 10_ Haiti on the Brink: Gang State and Gore Capitalism.