Beckett — There Is No More Haiti Full title: There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince

Beckett — There Is No More Haiti Full title: There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince Author: Greg Beckett Published: 2019, University of California Press Field: Anthropology / Ethnography Research period: 2001–2010 (fieldwork primarily 2004–2007, with a 2010 post-earthquake return) Overview An ethnographic study of life in Port-au-Prince, centered on the Habitation Leclerc / Martissant neighborhood and its historic botanic forest, the SCPE (Société de Conservation et du Développement des Ressources Naturelles et Environnement). Beckett conducted fieldwork with a community of squatters, herbalists, Vodou practitioners, artists, and urban poor living in and around the forest — a liminal zone caught between conservation ambitions, gang violence, political crisis, and the memory of Katherine Dunham. The book is not primarily about gang governance as an institutional system (that scholarship comes later, from Kolbe, Kivland, etc.).