Mobilizing at the Urban Margins: Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post-Dict

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This book uses the case of Chile to study how social mobilization endures in marginalized urban contexts, allowing activists to engage in large-scale democratizing processes. It develops a novel analytical framework called 'mobilizational citizenship' to explain people's engagement in durable and large-scale urban collective action.

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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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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.

Review

'Throughout the world the urban poor struggle against oppression and dispossession by organising in their neighbourhoods. Simón Escoffier's study of two contrasting neighbourhoods in Santiago, Chile, shows how people mobilise citizenship for cultivating radical democratic activism. This shift to mobilising citizenship in the neighbourhood is brilliant and inspiring.' Engin Isin, Queen Mary University of London

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Through the concept of 'mobilizational citizenship', this book explains durable collective action in excluded urban communities.

Details ISBN1009306928 Author Simón Escoffier Pages 270 Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781009306928 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-08-08 Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post-Dictatorial Chile Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9781009306942 DEWEY 323.0420983315 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly UK Release Date 2024-08-08 ISBN-10 1009306928 We've got this

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