La Révolution Suspendue : la crise de l'écoute en Haïti et le plaidoyer pour un pouvoir polycentrique
The Arrested Revolution: Haiti's Crisis of Listening and the Case for Polycentric Power By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson (Le Français suit) Port-au-Prince has perfected a peculiar kind of deafness. It is not the deafness of distance — the capital is, after all, only a few hours by road from almost anywhere in the country that still has a passable road. It is the deafness of a state whose ear has been surgically detached from its body. When pine trees fall in the southeast, when barricades rise in Kap Ayisyen, when families in Wannament negotiate passage with men holding rifles older than the children they are trying to feed, the sound travels — but it travels into a chamber built to absorb it. Johnny Celestin, in his recent essay, names this condition with admirable economy: the connections are broken. No credible elections. No accountable taxation. No mechanism by which the cry of a citizen becomes the calculation of a minister. He is right. But I want to push his diagnosis f...
