ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on mixed empirical field data to argue that community-based organizations in Haiti are forms of resistance that use project frameworks to create space and place for decolonized identity formation. Using the example of Agritrans, owner of a large-scale export-oriented banana project, this chapter explains how recent communal land conversions are capable of meeting only short-term, temporary development goals and thwart more complex goals of decolonization and placemaking. Agrarian political economy, identity formation, and the conceptual use of space and place are deployed here to compare economic relations of two different models of land use. This chapter builds upon the observation that people organize differently to resist neoliberalism, and provides insight on forms of appropriate and meaningful capitalism.
