The Haitian neoliberal state and the queerification and feminization of society

This work attempts to understand the constitution of the contemporary Haitian state, which is a paragon of the neoliberal state model.  Haiti’s neoliberal state is a colonial state impoverished to serve American global capitalist hegemony under the auspices of a Haitian comprador bourgeoisie and oligarchy composed of professionals, managers, intellectuals, and business elites in Haiti and the diaspora.  However, unlike Chile, which the West points to as the success of the neoliberal model and process, Haiti’s model is a complete failure, similar to the attempt to neoliberalize the Russian state post the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.  Whereas Russia, under Vladimir Putin, was able to combat the deleterious effects (exploitation, resource exhaustion, and identity politics) of the neoliberal process, Haiti is unable to do so.  The work posits that Haiti’s failures rest on its colonial experiences under mercantilist and liberal capitalism and the embourgeoisement, queerification, and feminization of its population on the island and the diaspora.