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Insurgent citizenship : disjunctions of democracy and modernity in Brazil / James Holston.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holston, James.
- Series:
- In-formation series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology, Urban--Brazil.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Urban anthropology--Brazil.
- Urban anthropology.
- Citizenship--Brazil.
- Citizenship.
- Urban poor.
- Law--Political aspects.
- Brazil.
- Democracy--Brazil.
- Democracy.
- Law--Political aspects--Brazil.
- Law.
- Land tenure--Brazil.
- Land tenure.
- Cities and towns--Brazil.
- Cities and towns.
- Urban poor--Brazil.
- Urban policy--Brazil.
- Urban policy.
- Squatter settlements--Brazil.
- Squatter settlements.
- São Paulo (Brazil)--Social conditions.
- São Paulo (Brazil).
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-374) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780691130217
- 0691130213
- 9780691142906
- OCLC:
- 123284857
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