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Citizenship in the Latin American Upper and Middle Classes: Ethnographic Perspectives on Culture and Politics book cover

1st Edition

Citizenship in the Latin American Upper and Middle Classes Ethnographic Perspectives on Culture and Politics

Edited By Fiorella Montero-Diaz, Franka Winter Copyright 2019
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge
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The problem of citizenship has long affected Latin America, simultaneously producing inclusion and exclusion, division and unity. Its narrative and practice both reflect and contribute to the region’s profound inequalities. However, citizenship is usually studied on the margins of society. Despite substantial public interest in recent mass mobilizations, the middle and upper classes are rarely... Read more

List of figures



List of contributors



Acknowledgements



Foreword – Michelle Bigenho





Introduction – Franka Winter and Fiorella Montero-Diaz





PART I - CULTURE



Chapter 1: From spectators to consumers: Citizenship in the Latin American illustrated press (1880s–1930s) – Maria Chiara D'Argenio



Chapter 2: "What will the respectable public say?": Protest musicianship and class in ‘Sexta’ events in Mexico City – Andrew Green



Chapter 3: Filmmakers as "citizens of the world": Cosmopolitanism and global identities of the Chilean upper-middle class – María Paz Peirano



Chapter 4: Marginal like you!: Constructing citizenship through fusion music in the Peruvian traditional upper classes – Fiorella Montero-Diaz





PART II – POLITICS



Chapter 5: "I would like citizenship to mean understanding the other": Relational notions of citizenship in a divided city – Franka Winter



Chapter 6: Digital alteration and the law against racism: Conflicting models of citizenship among new Bolivian middle classes – Miriam Shakow



Chapter 7: Banging the other side of the saucepan: Changing political activism and performance of citizenship among Argentina’s middle class 2001–2013 – Daniel Ozarow



Chapter 8: Demonstrating ethnicity and social class: The Colombian-Lebanese in Bogota – Esteban Devis-Amaya





Afterword – Fiorella Montero-Diaz and Franka Winter





Index

Biography

Fiorella Montero-Diaz is a lecturer in ethnomusicology at Keele University. She holds an M.Mus. from Goldsmiths University and a PhD from Royal Holloway - University of London.



Franka Winter is a political sociologist with a PhD from the University of Dublin.

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