Insurgent citizenship
Subtitle: disjunctions of democracy and modernity in Brazil
By: James Holston
Series: In-formation series
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780691130217
Subjects: Sociology, Urban -- Brazil; Urban anthropology -- Brazil; Citizenship -- Brazil; Democracy -- Brazil; Law -- Political aspects -- Brazil; Land tenure -- Brazil; Cities and towns -- Brazil; Urban poor -- Brazil; Urban policy -- Brazil; Squatter settlements -- Brazil; São Paulo (Brazil) -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-374) and index
Table of contents: title: Disruptions; title: Citizenship made strange; title: Public standing and everyday citizenship; title: Particular citizenships; title: Treating the unequal unequally; title: History as an argument about the present; title: Inequalities; title: In/divisible nations; title: Comparative formulations; title: French indivisibility; title: American restriction; title: Brazilian inclusion; title: Limiting political citizenship; title: The surprisingly broad colonial franchise; title: Restrictions with independence; title: A long step backward into oligarchy; title: Urbanization and the equalization of rights; title: Restricting access to landed property; title: Property, personality, and civil standing; title: Land, labor, and law; title: The tangle of colonial land tenure; title: National land reform, slavery, and immigrant free labor; title: The land law of 1850; title: Land law and market become accomplices of fraud; title: Illegality, inequality, and instability as norms; title: Segregating the city; title: Center and periphery; title: Evicting workers and managing society; title: Autoconstructing the peripheries; title: Social rights for urban labor; title: A differentiated citizenship; title: Insurgencies; title: Legalizing the illegal; title: The illegal periphery; title: A case of land fraud in Jardim das Caḿelias; title: Histories of dubious origins; title: Federal ownership claims: Sesmarias and Indians; title: Ackel ownership claims: posse and squatter's rights; title: The ownership claims of Adis and the state of São Paulo; title: The misrule of law; title: Urban citizens; title: New civic participation; title: The mobilization of Lar Nacional; title: Reinventing the public sphere; title: New foundations of rights; title: Rights as privilege; title: Contributor rights; title: Text-based rights; title: Disjunctions; title: Dangerous spaces of citizenship; title: Everyday incivilities; title: In/justice; title: Gang talk and rights talk; title: Insurgent citizenships and disjunctive democracies