Mobilizing at the Urban Margins

Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post-Dictatorial Chile
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-30694-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 158 mm, Gewicht: 542 g

In October 2019, unprecedented mobilizations in Chile took the world by surprise. An outburst of protests plunged a stable democracy into the deepest social and political crisis since its dictatorship in the 1980s. Although the protests involved a myriad of organizations, the organizational capabilities provided by underprivileged urban dwellers proved essential in sustaining collective action in an increasingly repressive environment. Based on a comparative ethnography and over six years of fieldwork, Mobilizing at the Urban Margins uses the case of Chile to study how social mobilization endures in marginalized urban contexts, allowing activists to engage in large-scale democratizing processes. The book investigates why and how some urban communities succumb to exclusion, while others react by resurrecting collective action to challenge unequal regimes of citizenship. Rich and insightful, the book develops the novel analytical framework of 'mobilizational citizenship' to explain this self-produced form of political incorporation in the urban margins.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Escoffier, Simón

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. The mobilizational citizenship framework; 2. The history of mobilization in Chile's urban settings; 3. The demobilization of the urban margins; 4. Memory of subversion; 5. We, the informal urban dwellers; 6. Protagonism and community building; Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Escoffier, Simón
Simón Escoffier is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His research focuses on social movements, citizenship, conservative counter-movements, political exclusion, human rights, public policy, urban democracy, and Latin America.