Mobilizing at the Urban Margins - Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post-Dictatorial Chile

"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"--

List 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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Simón Escoffier
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2024
• EAN: 9781009306928
• ISBN: 978-1-00-930692-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 398 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Chile, Political Ideologies, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, LAW / Constitutional, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Political activism, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Political ideologies and movements, Civics and citizenship, Citizenship and nationality law, Citizenship & nationality law, Political activism / Political engagement