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Extreme inequalities, uneven planning, and unruly environments have long shaped individual and collective subjectivities at Latin America’s urban margins. Yet these same margins have frequently given rise to new forms of community organization, cultural practice, and social mobilization. This volumeframes the urban margins as complex and multi-layered sites where ongoing translocal histories of exploitation and marginalization meet distinctly local and interpersonal forms of sociability, subjective belonging, and political agency. Through nuanced ethnographic work and cross-disciplinary theoretical insights, Subjectivity at Latin America’s Urban Margins unpacks this complexity, investigating how margins are upheld, negotiated, and challenged.
Moisés Kopper is Research Professor at the Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, and Principal Investigator in the ERC Starting Grant “Informational Citizenship: Toward a Global Ethnography of Practices and Infrastructures of Datafication in the Global South.” He is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. He recently authored Architectures of Hope: Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing (University of Michigan Press, 2022).
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Introduction: Exploring Subjectivity at Latin America’s Urban Margins
Moisés Kopper and Matthew A. Richmond
*available open access under a CC BY NC ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of Research, Innovation & Valorisation Antwerp (RIVA) of the University of Antwerp.
Part I: Theorizing the Urban Margins
Chapter 1. Where are Latin America’s Urban Margins? How the Margins Materialize in Peripheries, Interstices, and Circuits
Matthew A. Richmond and Moisés Kopper
Chapter 2. Positioning Latin America’s Urban Margins: Where and How Does Latin America Live?
Patria Román-Velázquez, Alejandra García Vargas, and Jessica Retis
Chapter 3. Women Doing Fieldwork in the Margins: Embodiment and Subjectivity
Luana Dias Motta, Valéria Cristina de Oliveira, Simone Ribeiro Gomes, Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti, Laurie Denyer Willis, and Fernanda Mendes Lages Ribeiro
Part II: Living Precariously
Chapter 4. Marginalization Processes and Disputes over Livelihoods in Buenos Aires from the standpoint of Wast Pickers and Street Vendors
María Inés Fernández-Álvarez and Mariano Perelman
Chapter 5. Distinction at the Margins: Negotiating Stigmas in Informal Markets in São Paulo
Felipe Rangel Martins and Angelo Martins Junior
Chapter 6. The Bind of Repair: Welfare and the Troublesome Subjectivity of Colombia’s War Victims
Sebastián Ramírez H.
Chapter 7. Two Families, Fifty Years Apart: On Women, Wealth, and Violence in Marginalized Mexico City
Regnar Kristensen
Part III: Expressing Marginalized Subjectivity
Chapter 8. Hip Hop, Transgredience, and Carnalismo at the Margins of Mexico City
Ruben Enrique Campos III
Chapter 9. Embodying Virtuous Subjectivity: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu between Individual Empowerment and the Moralization of Inequality at the Margins of Rio de Janeiro
Raphael Schapira
Chapter 10. A Pedagogy of Convivência: Exploring the Potência of Individual and Collective Subjectivity in Brazilian Peripheries
Fernando Lannes Fernandes, Jailson de Souza e Silva, and Jorge Luiz Barbosa
Part IV: Challenging Subalternity
Chapter 11. Rethinking the Margin as a Life-Affirming Place
Agustina Solera
Chapter 12. Differential Citizenship and Forced Displacement in the City of the World Cup and the Pernambuco Arena: Project Morality in Urban Margins
Parry Scott, Alice Moura, and Núbia Clementino
Chapter 13. Cycling Mexico City’s Edge: Embodied Subjectivation Among Marginal Cycloactivists
Raúl Acosta
Afterword: Brief Notes to Study Life at the Margins
Javier Auyero