TY  - BOOK
AB  - "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.
AU  - Holston, James.
CN  - HT129.B7
CN  - HT129.B7
CY  - Princeton :
DA  - c2008.
ID  - 340230
KW  - Sociology, Urban
KW  - Urban anthropology
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Law
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Urban poor
KW  - Urban policy
KW  - Squatter settlements
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0715/2007015458.html
N2  - "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.
PB  - Princeton University Press,
PP  - Princeton :
PY  - c2008.
SN  - 9780691142906 (pbk. : alk. paper)
SN  - 0691142904 (pbk. : alk. paper)
SN  - 9780691130217 (alk. paper)
SN  - 0691130213 (alk. paper)
T1  - Insurgent citizenship :disjunctions of democracy and modernity in Brazil /
TI  - Insurgent citizenship :disjunctions of democracy and modernity in Brazil /
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0715/2007015458.html
ER  -