{"product_id":"insurgent-citizenship-disjunctions-of-democracy-and-modernity-in-brazil-9780691142906","title":"Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil","description":"\u003cp\u003eInsurgent citizenships have arisen in cities around the world. This book examines the insurgence of democratic citizenship in the urban peripheries of S o Paulo, Brazil, its entanglement with entrenched systems of inequality, and its contradiction in violence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eInsurgent Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Rather than view this paradox as evidence of democratic failure and urban chaos, \u003ci\u003eInsurgent Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e argues that contradictory realizations of citizenship characterize all democracies--emerging and established. Focusing on processes of city- and citizen-making now prevalent globally, it develops new approaches for understanding the contemporary course of democratic citizenship in societies of vastly different cultures and histories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Holston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/26\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691142906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Holston\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Modernist City\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of \u003ci\u003eCities and Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40384363069555,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":60.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_90685fbc-59a0-4d9f-9af2-06dd461dcbe9.jpg?v=1661435916","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/insurgent-citizenship-disjunctions-of-democracy-and-modernity-in-brazil-9780691142906","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}