Children and the politics of violence in Haitian context: Statist violence, scarcity and street child agency in Port-au-Prince

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 121-138

  Bernat, J Christopher ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child agency; Civil society; Education; Haiti; Human rights; Liberation theology; Political violence; Poverty; State violence; Street children; Youth politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033242594     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X9901900202     Document Type: Article

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