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

In October 2019, unprecedented mobilizations in Chile plunged a stable democracy into the deepest social and political crisis since its dictatorship in the 1980s. Mobilizing at the Urban Margins uses a comparative ethnography and six years of fieldwork to study how social mobilization endures in marginalized urban contexts, allowing activists to engage in large-scale democratizing processes. It develops the novel analytical framework of mobilizational citizenship to explain this self-produced form of political incorporation in the urban margins.

Format: Hardback
Length: 250 pages
Publication date: 08 June 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Unprecedented mobilizations in Chile in October 2019 took the world by surprise, plunging a stable democracy into the deepest social and political crisis since its dictatorship in the 1980s. Despite the involvement of various organizations, the organizational capabilities provided by underprivileged urban dwellers proved essential in sustaining collective action in an increasingly repressive environment. Mobilizing at the Urban Margins, based on a comparative ethnography and over six years of fieldwork, explores how social mobilization endures in marginalized urban contexts, enabling 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.

Unprecedented mobilizations in Chile in October 2019 took the world by surprise, plunging a stable democracy into the deepest social and political crisis since its dictatorship in the 1980s. Despite the involvement of various organizations, the organizational capabilities provided by underprivileged urban dwellers proved essential in sustaining collective action in an increasingly repressive environment. Mobilizing at the Urban Margins, based on a comparative ethnography and over six years of fieldwork, explores how social mobilization endures in marginalized urban contexts, enabling 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.

Weight: 554g
ISBN-13: 9781009306942