Insurgent citizenship : disjunctions of democracy and modernity in Brazil / James Holston.
Holston, James.
2008
HT129.B7 H65 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Insurgent citizenship : disjunctions of democracy and modernity in Brazil / James Holston.
Author Holston, James.
ISBN 9780691142906 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0691142904 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780691130217 (alk. paper)
0691130213 (alk. paper)
Imprint Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Language English
Description xvii, 396 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number HT129.B7 H65 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.760981
Summary "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 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." -- Book jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series In-formation series.
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Disruptions
Citizenship made strange
Public standing and everyday citizenship
Particular citizenships
Treating the unequal unequally
History as an argument about the present
Inequalities
In/divisible nations
Comparative formulations
French indivisibility
American restriction
Brazilian inclusion
Limiting political citizenship
The surprisingly broad colonial franchise
Restrictions with independence
A long step backward into oligarchy
Urbanization and the equalization of rights
Restricting access to landed property
Property, personality, and civil standing
Land, labor, and law
The tangle of colonial land tenure
National land reform, slavery, and immigrant free labor
The land law of 1850
Land law and market become accomplices of fraud
Illegality, inequality, and instability as norms
Segregating the city
Center and periphery
Evicting workers and managing society
Autoconstructing the peripheries
Social rights for urban labor
A differentiated citizenship
Insurgencies
Legalizing the illegal
The illegal periphery
A case of land fraud in Jardim das Caḿelias
Histories of dubious origins
Federal ownership claims: Sesmarias and Indians
Ackel ownership claims: posse and squatter's rights
The ownership claims of Adis and the state of São Paulo
The misrule of law
Urban citizens
New civic participation
The mobilization of Lar Nacional
Reinventing the public sphere
New foundations of rights
Rights as privilege
Contributor rights
Text-based rights
Disjunctions
Dangerous spaces of citizenship
Everyday incivilities
In/justice
Gang talk and rights talk
Insurgent citizenships and disjunctive democracies.

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