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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 called baz) more accurately express a novel mode of state-making in their attempts to