Simon Escoffier (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)

Mobilizing at the Urban Margins

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781009306942
• ISBN-10: 1009306944
• Artikelnr.: 66172008

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.