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Insurgent Citizenship Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil

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ISBN-10: 0691142904

ISBN-13: 9780691142906

Edition: 2007

Authors: James Holston

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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/7/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.17" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

List of Illustrations and Tables
Preface
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 Properly
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 Cam�lias
Histories of Dubious Origins
Federal Ownership Claims: Sesmarias and Indians
Ackel Ownership Claims: Fosse and Squatter's Rights
The Ownership Claims of Adis and the State of S�o 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
Bibliography
Index