Chelsey L Kivland
Biographic Data
| ID | 98912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chelsey L Kivland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chelsey L |
| FAMILY NAME | Kivland |
| SIGNATURE | KIVLAND C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Shifting Contours of the Outlaw in Urban Haiti
In what follows, I discuss some initial empirical findings and theoretical insights from my recent work on transnational resettlement of crime-based deportees from the US to Haiti. Haitian baz, or street organizations, are increasingly taking on the trappings of the urban gang to maintain relevance and control of their zones. Simultaneously, gangs are deploying the dressings of the baz to attain authority throughout neighborhoods in Haiti. The in…
Gangs, Deportees, and Haiti’s Troubles
Thousands of Haitian asylum seekers recently subjected to forced repatriation by the United States face a difficult time reintegrating in an unstable country which some of them hardly know. Adding to the difficulties are the prevalence of street gangs in Haiti and common assumptions that deportees are linked to organized crime
Le dévoilement performatif du « peuple »: Une réflexion sur les bandes à pied et la politique de la rue en Haïti
Cet article présente les bann a pye haïtiennes – les bandes à pied, les fanfares du carnaval – comme des plateformes stratégiques pour la critique politique de la gouvernance néolibérale. Au travers d’une ethnographie d’une bande à pied dans un quartier populaire de Port-au-Prince, je montre comment la bande se forme et se présente elle-même comme un porte-parole de son quartier défavorisé et de la population démunie qui y vit. Bien que la bande …
Insecure Birth: A Qualitative Study of Everyday Violence During Pregnancy in Port au Prince, Haiti
Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti by Vincent Joos
Reviewed by: Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti by Vincent Joos Chelsey L. Kivland Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti. By Vincent Joos. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9781501746994. 240 pp. $34.95 paperback. Of the City: Being and Becoming in the Fragility of Port-au-Prince Today In Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Me…
Last mile research: A conceptual map
Background: The term ‘last mile’ has been used across disciplines to refer to populations who are farthest away, most difficult to reach, or last to benefit from a program or service. However, last mile research lacks a shared understanding around its conceptualization.Objectives: This project used a concept mapping process to answer the questions: what is last mile research in global health and, how can it be used to make positive change for hea…
Self Exposures: The Political Arts of Ethnoracial Identification in Latin America and the Caribbean
The papers for this special issue summon the concept of “exposure,” or the act of revealing something hidden before an audience, to understand the performances that animate ethnicity-based social movements across Latin America and the Caribbean. We introduce the phrase “arts of exposure” in order to articulate how social movements big and small are drawing a new politics out of enacting the representations of racial, ethnic, and class identities …
The people' exposed: Spatio-racial-affective alterity in Haitian popular protest
Beginning in 2013, urban Haitians staged several antigovernment protests that eventually led, in 2016, to the removal of President Michel Martelly without an elected successor. This protest movement used racial, spatial, and affective markers to expose an image of pèp la (the people) and to rework old and new race-class divisions in the Haitian population. Conducting ceremonial bonfires, donning black and red masks, and chanting Vodou songs to su…
The Spiral of Sovereignty: Enacting and Entangling the State from Haiti's Streets
How, and at what cost, do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapse? In the neglected sectors of urban Haiti, groups of young men broker relations with politicians, state agents, and NGO workers to secure representation, resources, and jobs for themselves and neighbors. Although often classified as apolitical criminal gangs, these groups (locally calledbaz) more accurately express a novel mode of state-making in their a…
Washing Out Trump's Mouth with Haitian History
The magic of guns: Scriptive technology and violence in Haiti
When urban Haitians recounted stories of gun violence, they infused the gun with transformative effects on subjectivity and agency. Touching a gun was said to magically change people and what they were capable of in the world. The magic of the gun was predicated on its ability to provide "scripts" for violent ways of being and acting in the world. These gun stories inspire a novel theorization of the gun as a scriptive technology. The gun's techn…
A Defense of the Charlottesville Counter-Protesters
Sympathetic Graffiti in Haiti: Jerry's Murals as a Scene of Pedagogical Curiosity
Since 2010, "Jerry" has become Haiti's most prominent graffiti artist. Dealing with the most sensitive issues of the day-disaster, insecurity, illiteracy, aid dependency, corruption, and poverty-he has canvassed Port-au-Prince and other cities with murals that invite compassion for his subjects and collective recognition of difficult social realities. This essay argues that the artistic modality and political sensibility displayed in Jerry's graf…
Becoming a Force in the Zone: Hedonopolitics, Masculinity, and the Quest for Respect on Haiti's Streets
This article explores neighborhood organizing among young men in urban Haiti as a vernacular enactment of sovereignty that involves both a hedonistic and a gendered logic. Under conditions of democratization and global governance, the urban block, or base, has become a key site for building political community and creating connections to those in power. Central to base politics are public outings that engender power and respect for the organizers…
Unmaking the State in 'Occupied' Haiti
The democratic transition in Haiti (1986-present) has been forged alongside the proliferation of global governance interventions, from a series of UN peacekeeping missions to countless NGOs. Much of this activity has been pursued in the name of building state capacity. This article explores why residents in a Port-au-Prince neighborhood targeted by diverse governance projects perceive and experience 'statelessness.' Taking the peacekeeping missio…
Becoming a Force in the Zone: Hedonopolitics, Masculinity, and the Quest for Respect on Haiti's Streets
This article explores neighborhood organizing among young men in urban Haiti as a vernacular enactment of sovereignty that involves both a hedonistic and a gendered logic. Under conditions of democratization and global governance, the urban block, or base, has become a key site for building political community and creating connections to those in power. Central to base politics are public outings that engender power and respect for the organizers…
Unmaking the State in 'Occupied' Haiti
The democratic transition in Haiti (1986-present) has been forged alongside the proliferation of global governance interventions, from a series of UN peacekeeping missions to countless NGOs. Much of this activity has been pursued in the name of building state capacity. This article explores why residents in a Port-au-Prince neighborhood targeted by diverse governance projects perceive and experience 'statelessness.' Taking the peacekeeping missio…
The magic of guns: Scriptive technology and violence in Haiti
When urban Haitians recounted stories of gun violence, they infused the gun with transformative effects on subjectivity and agency. Touching a gun was said to magically change people and what they were capable of in the world. The magic of the gun was predicated on its ability to provide "scripts" for violent ways of being and acting in the world. These gun stories inspire a novel theorization of the gun as a scriptive technology. The gun's techn…
The Spiral of Sovereignty: Enacting and Entangling the State from Haiti's Streets
How, and at what cost, do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapse? In the neglected sectors of urban Haiti, groups of young men broker relations with politicians, state agents, and NGO workers to secure representation, resources, and jobs for themselves and neighbors. Although often classified as apolitical criminal gangs, these groups (locally calledbaz) more accurately express a novel mode of state-making in their a…
Self Exposures: The Political Arts of Ethnoracial Identification in Latin America and the Caribbean
The papers for this special issue summon the concept of “exposure,” or the act of revealing something hidden before an audience, to understand the performances that animate ethnicity-based social movements across Latin America and the Caribbean. We introduce the phrase “arts of exposure” in order to articulate how social movements big and small are drawing a new politics out of enacting the representations of racial, ethnic, and class identities …
The people' exposed: Spatio-racial-affective alterity in Haitian popular protest
Beginning in 2013, urban Haitians staged several antigovernment protests that eventually led, in 2016, to the removal of President Michel Martelly without an elected successor. This protest movement used racial, spatial, and affective markers to expose an image of pèp la (the people) and to rework old and new race-class divisions in the Haitian population. Conducting ceremonial bonfires, donning black and red masks, and chanting Vodou songs to su…
Sympathetic Graffiti in Haiti: Jerry's Murals as a Scene of Pedagogical Curiosity
Since 2010, "Jerry" has become Haiti's most prominent graffiti artist. Dealing with the most sensitive issues of the day-disaster, insecurity, illiteracy, aid dependency, corruption, and poverty-he has canvassed Port-au-Prince and other cities with murals that invite compassion for his subjects and collective recognition of difficult social realities. This essay argues that the artistic modality and political sensibility displayed in Jerry's graf…
Unmaking the State in 'Occupied' Haiti
The democratic transition in Haiti (1986-present) has been forged alongside the proliferation of global governance interventions, from a series of UN peacekeeping missions to countless NGOs. Much of this activity has been pursued in the name of building state capacity. This article explores why residents in a Port-au-Prince neighborhood targeted by diverse governance projects perceive and experience 'statelessness.' Taking the peacekeeping missio…
Becoming a Force in the Zone: Hedonopolitics, Masculinity, and the Quest for Respect on Haiti's Streets
This article explores neighborhood organizing among young men in urban Haiti as a vernacular enactment of sovereignty that involves both a hedonistic and a gendered logic. Under conditions of democratization and global governance, the urban block, or base, has become a key site for building political community and creating connections to those in power. Central to base politics are public outings that engender power and respect for the organizers…
A Defense of the Charlottesville Counter-Protesters
Sympathetic Graffiti in Haiti: Jerry's Murals as a Scene of Pedagogical Curiosity
Since 2010, "Jerry" has become Haiti's most prominent graffiti artist. Dealing with the most sensitive issues of the day-disaster, insecurity, illiteracy, aid dependency, corruption, and poverty-he has canvassed Port-au-Prince and other cities with murals that invite compassion for his subjects and collective recognition of difficult social realities. This essay argues that the artistic modality and political sensibility displayed in Jerry's graf…
Washing Out Trump's Mouth with Haitian History
The magic of guns: Scriptive technology and violence in Haiti
When urban Haitians recounted stories of gun violence, they infused the gun with transformative effects on subjectivity and agency. Touching a gun was said to magically change people and what they were capable of in the world. The magic of the gun was predicated on its ability to provide "scripts" for violent ways of being and acting in the world. These gun stories inspire a novel theorization of the gun as a scriptive technology. The gun's techn…
Self Exposures: The Political Arts of Ethnoracial Identification in Latin America and the Caribbean
The papers for this special issue summon the concept of “exposure,” or the act of revealing something hidden before an audience, to understand the performances that animate ethnicity-based social movements across Latin America and the Caribbean. We introduce the phrase “arts of exposure” in order to articulate how social movements big and small are drawing a new politics out of enacting the representations of racial, ethnic, and class identities …
The people' exposed: Spatio-racial-affective alterity in Haitian popular protest
Beginning in 2013, urban Haitians staged several antigovernment protests that eventually led, in 2016, to the removal of President Michel Martelly without an elected successor. This protest movement used racial, spatial, and affective markers to expose an image of pèp la (the people) and to rework old and new race-class divisions in the Haitian population. Conducting ceremonial bonfires, donning black and red masks, and chanting Vodou songs to su…
The Spiral of Sovereignty: Enacting and Entangling the State from Haiti's Streets
How, and at what cost, do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapse? In the neglected sectors of urban Haiti, groups of young men broker relations with politicians, state agents, and NGO workers to secure representation, resources, and jobs for themselves and neighbors. Although often classified as apolitical criminal gangs, these groups (locally calledbaz) more accurately express a novel mode of state-making in their a…
Last mile research: A conceptual map
Background: The term ‘last mile’ has been used across disciplines to refer to populations who are farthest away, most difficult to reach, or last to benefit from a program or service. However, last mile research lacks a shared understanding around its conceptualization.Objectives: This project used a concept mapping process to answer the questions: what is last mile research in global health and, how can it be used to make positive change for hea…
Gangs, Deportees, and Haiti’s Troubles
Thousands of Haitian asylum seekers recently subjected to forced repatriation by the United States face a difficult time reintegrating in an unstable country which some of them hardly know. Adding to the difficulties are the prevalence of street gangs in Haiti and common assumptions that deportees are linked to organized crime
Le dévoilement performatif du « peuple »: Une réflexion sur les bandes à pied et la politique de la rue en Haïti
Cet article présente les bann a pye haïtiennes – les bandes à pied, les fanfares du carnaval – comme des plateformes stratégiques pour la critique politique de la gouvernance néolibérale. Au travers d’une ethnographie d’une bande à pied dans un quartier populaire de Port-au-Prince, je montre comment la bande se forme et se présente elle-même comme un porte-parole de son quartier défavorisé et de la population démunie qui y vit. Bien que la bande …
Insecure Birth: A Qualitative Study of Everyday Violence During Pregnancy in Port au Prince, Haiti
Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti by Vincent Joos
Reviewed by: Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti by Vincent Joos Chelsey L. Kivland Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti. By Vincent Joos. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9781501746994. 240 pp. $34.95 paperback. Of the City: Being and Becoming in the Fragility of Port-au-Prince Today In Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Me…
Shifting Contours of the Outlaw in Urban Haiti
In what follows, I discuss some initial empirical findings and theoretical insights from my recent work on transnational resettlement of crime-based deportees from the US to Haiti. Haitian baz, or street organizations, are increasingly taking on the trappings of the urban gang to maintain relevance and control of their zones. Simultaneously, gangs are deploying the dressings of the baz to attain authority throughout neighborhoods in Haiti. The in…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Art (4 works)