29%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil
James Holston
€ 46.99
€ 33.48
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil
Paperback. Insurgent citizenships have arisen in cities around the world. This book examines the insurgence of democratic citizenship in the urban peripheries of Sao Paulo, Brazil, its entanglement with entrenched systems of inequality, and its contradiction in violence. It argues that contradictory realizations of citizenship characterize all democracies. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 416 pages, 11 halftones. 6 line illus. 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JHBA; JPA; JPHV; JPQB; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 616.
Insurgent citizenships have arisen in cities around the world. This book examines the insurgence of democratic citizenship in the urban peripheries of Sao Paulo, Brazil, its entanglement with entrenched systems of inequality, and its contradiction in violence. James Holston argues that for two centuries Brazilians have practiced a type of citizenship all too common among nation-states--one that is universally inclusive in national membership and massively inegalitarian in distributing rights and in its legalization of social differences. But since the 1970s, he shows, residents of Brazil's urban peripheries have formulated a new citizenship that is destabilizing the old. Their mobilizations have ... Read more
Insurgent citizenships have arisen in cities around the world. This book examines the insurgence of democratic citizenship in the urban peripheries of Sao Paulo, Brazil, its entanglement with entrenched systems of inequality, and its contradiction in violence. James Holston argues that for two centuries Brazilians have practiced a type of citizenship all too common among nation-states--one that is universally inclusive in national membership and massively inegalitarian in distributing rights and in its legalization of social differences. But since the 1970s, he shows, residents of Brazil's urban peripheries have formulated a new citizenship that is destabilizing the old. Their mobilizations have ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
In-Formation
Condition
New
Weight
616g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691142906
SKU
V9780691142906
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About James Holston
James Holston is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of "The Modernist City" and the editor of "Cities and Citizenship".
Reviews for Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil
Co-Winner of the 2010 BRASA Roberto Reis Book Prize by the Brazilian Studies Association Winner of the 2009 Best Book on Brazil in English, Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association Winner of the 2009 Leeds Honor Book, Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association "Holston's topic in this impressive study on unequal citizenship ... Read more