PoLAR author Chelsey L. Kivland reflects on her fieldwork in Haiti and the political ambiguity of the UN peacekeeping mission, MINUSTAH, which has been there since 2004. Focusing on a few artistic expressions, she details the mission’s significance in a neighborhood where its impact has been most prominent, the Bel Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. The full photo essay is available here.
Kivland’s article, Unmaking the State in “Occupied” Haiti, is available in Volume 35, Issue 2.