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Ambivalent citizenship: political cynicism, community engagement and belonging among youth in Brazil
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This article interrogates the role of urban peripheries in creating political imaginaries and understandings of citizenship among children and grandchildren of insurgent citizens in urban Northeast Brazil. The analysis draws on data collected through 10 ethnographically informed focus groups with youth between 18 and 35. The article argues that, contrary to beliefs that young people are apathetic about politics or enthusiastic to engage in progressive social movements, youth have an ambivalent relationship with the state, informed by everyday encounters with precarious infrastructure, awareness of previous forms of collective action that determines their civic engagement, and feelings of belonging to home communities. The article suggests revisiting the concept of insurgent citizenship considering new socio-political changes that framed the lives of young people living in urban peripheries in the past two decades in Brazil and proposes ambivalence as a productive theoretical angle to make sense of ruptures and discontinuities in political practices.
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- Authors
- Mandache, L.-A.
- Affiliations
- Center for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Venue
- Citizenship Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2024-07-03
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 4-5
- Pages
- 498-515
- ISSN
- 1362-1025
- 1469-3593
- Cited by
- 6
- References
- 37
- Language
- en
- Funders
- Austrian Science Fund (M3045)
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