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Haiti and the Resource Crisis: Between Systemic Devastation and Institutional Reform
Session as part of the Congress of German Francoromanists at the University of Kassel, September 29 – October 2, 2026
This session proposes to rethink the contemporary Haitian crisis based on a central hypothesis: what if this crisis were not merely the result of a security collapse (Boyard 2023; Neptune 2023) or institutional collapse, but also a cross-cutting disintegration of resources—human, material, financial, and symbolic—revealing the extent of systemic devastation? In a context where the logics of dispossession inherited from the colonial order are being reshaped in neoliberal forms, Haiti emerges as a prism for a sharp analysis of contemporary dynamics of chaos, social disintegration, and collective de-symbolization. This approach is part of current debates in the humanities and cultural studies on the relationships between memory, resources, and sovereignty (Mbembe 2020; Trouillot 1995; Appadurai 2013).