Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] Fwd: New book - Insurgent Citizenship
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> Oggetto: New book - Insurgent Citizenship
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> Insurgent Citizenship
> Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil
> James Holston
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> 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
> developed not primarily through struggles of labor but through
> those of the city--particularly illegal residence, house building,
> and land conflict. Yet precisely as Brazilians democratized urban
> space and achieved political democracy, violence, injustice, and
> impunity increased dramatically. Based on comparative,
> ethnographic, and historical research, Insurgent Citizenship
> reveals why the insurgent and the entrenched remain dangerously
> conjoined as new kinds of citizens expand democracy even as new
> forms of violence and exclusion erode it.
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> Cloth | $35.00 / £19.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-13021-7
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