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Author Holston, James.

Title Insurgent citizenship : disjunctions of democracy and modernity in Brazil / James Holston.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2008]
©2008

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 Moore Stacks  HT129.B7 H65 2008    Available  ---
Description xvii, 396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Series In-formation series
In-formation series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-374) and index.
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.
Subject Sociology, Urban -- Brazil.
Sociology, Urban.
Brazil.
Urban anthropology -- Brazil.
Urban anthropology.
Citizenship -- Brazil.
Citizenship.
Democracy -- Brazil.
Democracy.
Law -- Political aspects -- Brazil.
Law -- Political aspects.
Land tenure -- Brazil.
Land tenure.
Cities and towns -- Brazil.
Cities and towns.
Urban poor -- Brazil.
Urban poor.
Urban policy -- Brazil.
Urban policy.
Squatter settlements -- Brazil.
Squatter settlements.
São Paulo (Brazil) -- Social conditions.
Law.
ISBN 9780691130217 alkaline paper
0691130213 alkaline paper