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Silencing The Sovereignty Of The Poor In Haiti, Timothy Dimuzio
Silencing The Sovereignty Of The Poor In Haiti, Timothy Dimuzio
Timothy DiMuzio
This chapter is animated by the idea that to write about the silencing of human rights -at least since the Middle Ages -we must try to appreciate how rights have historically been defined in relation to sovereign power and the defence of sovereign authority. With this relation in mind, this chapter sets out to critically investigate the state of non-right imposed on the majority of Haitians and how in doing so, powerful social forces have acted to silence the interests and political aspirations of those on the margins of Haitian society. Here, a state of non-right does not necessarily refer …