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Greg Beckett

The Art of Not Governing Port-au-Prince

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In Haiti, urbanization through “slumification” has generated an
overwhelming sense of crisis. In this article I trace the history of the urban
crisis and consider some examples of the making of slums in order to show
how the spatial form of the city has been shaped by a peculiar dialectic
between the state and statelessness. In Haiti, this dialectic takes shape in
Port-au-Prince, where people feel they ought to be well within the reach of
the state and yet feel excluded or left out. Ostensibly the center of political

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