We All Have Rights, But... Contesting Concepts of Citizenship in Brazil (original) (raw)
Dimensions of citizenship in contemporary Brazil
2006
Over the last three decades, the notion of citizenship has become increasingly recurrent in the political vocabulary in Brazil as well as in other parts of Latin America and the world. In Latin America, its emergence has been linked to the experiences of social movements during the late 1970s and 1980s, reinforced by efforts toward democratization, especially in those countries with authoritarian regimes.
Citizenship and the social in contemporary Brazil
2005
Along the three last decades, the notion of citizenship has become increasingly recurrent in the political vocabulary in Brazil as well as in other parts of Latin America and the world. In Latin America, its emergence has been linked to the experiences of social movements during the late 70's and 80's, reinforced by the efforts toward democratization, especially in those countries with authoritarian regimes.
Frontiers of Citizenship, 2018
Frontiers of Citizenship is an engagingly written, innovative history of Brazil's black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and the origins of Brazil's "racial democracy." Through groundbreaking archival research that brings the stories of slaves, Indians, and settlers to life, Yuko Miki challenges the widespread idea that Brazilian Indians "disappeared" during the colonial era, paving the way for the birth of Latin America's largest black nation. Focusing on the postcolonial settlement of the Atlantic frontier and Rio de Janeiro, Miki argues that the exclusion and inequality of indigenous and African-descended people became embedded in the very construction of Brazil's remarkably inclusive nationhood. She demonstrates that to understand the full scope of central themes in Latin American history-race and national identity, unequal citizenship, popular politics, and slavery and abolition-one must engage the histories of both the African diaspora and the indigenous Americas.
Citizenships and sub-citizenships, as a democratic outcome, in Latin America
Società Mutamento e Politica, 2018
This research is based on theoretical alternatives of citizenship, which emphasize on the conquest of rights (T.H. Marshall) and on the configuration of collective identities (Stein Rokkan). Citizen construction corresponds to long-term historical processes associated with the constitution of the nation-state and the consolidation of community identities. Furthermore, its current evolution corresponds to political processes and public policies, which have a partway in the democratizations of the mid 80s. The factors of inequality in the 21st century are presented: poverty and indigence, ethnicity and gender, and the results of democratization processes in favor of equality.
2014
Public sociology is at the origin of the formation of the modern Brazilian sociological field. Between 1960 and 1970, at least two important institutions of sociological research (the Center for Labor and Industrial Sociology at the University of Sao Paulo, CESIT, and the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning, CEBRAP) developed the praxis characteristic of public sociology building up links with extra-academic audiences, in particular, radical trade unions and progressive social movements. The purpose of this presentation will be to reconstruct the theoretical and political links between theseexperiences in public sociology and the current engagement of the Center for the Study of Citizenship Rights (Cenedic), public sociology institute founded at the University of Sao Paulo in the 1990s by sociologist Francisco de Oliveira. Thus, we intend to debate some tensions between the academic research and social movements fighting for the rights of citizenship which resurfaced with unp...
Republican Rights and Nationalism: Collective Identities and Citizenship in Brazil and Quebec
Série Antropologia, 1999
The process of redemocratization in Brazil, and the demands of recognition in Quebec bring to the fore interesting questions for thinking about the relationship between cultural/social identities and the public sphere, by way of problems related to citizenship in both countries. In both cases one has a confluence between individual rights, on the one hand, and group or collective rights on the other. These are articulated with crosscutting cultural and social identities, which pose difficult questions to contemporary theories of democracy and citizenship. While in Brazil the relationship between social identity and citizenship has been established through a process of expanding rights mediated by a certain unionism, within a cultural background that structures the social world as a hierarchy, in the case of Quebec the exercise of citizenship rights is perceived, by French Quebeckers, as impaired by the lack of recognition of their national/cultural identity. Given that Quebec, as a Canadian Province, highly regards individualism and equality as deep seated values, its comparison with the Brazilian case provides a contrasting scenario that helps to illuminate the difficulties stemming from the articulation of individual rights and collective identities within a theory of citizenship. By the same token, the comparison suggests that an analysis of citizenship rights demands not only a focus on how these rights are actually practiced in loco, but requires an examination of the relationship between legal and moral rights.