Kivland — Street Sovereigns: Chapter Notes Source: kivland street sovereigns haiti

Kivland — Street Sovereigns: Chapter Notes Source: kivland street sovereigns haiti Chapter-by-Chapter Notes Introduction: The Making of Street Sovereignty Core argument: Introduces Bel Air as a historically charged popular neighborhood and introduces the baz through Kivland's entry into fieldwork. The book's theoretical stakes are laid out: the baz is not a gang in the criminological sense but a makeshift state, and its leaders exercise street sovereignty — a form of political power that fills the governance vacuum left by state failure and structural exclusion. Fieldwork context: Primary fieldwork 2006–2010 in Bel Air; return visits through 2013.