Cristina Rojas - Narratives and Imaginings of Citizenship in Latin America

This book looks at how citizenship has been imagined and transformed in Latin America through the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from different disciplinary perspectives including anthropology, history, urban planning, geography and political studies. It looks beyond citizenship as a formal legal status to explore how ideas about citizenship have shaped political and historical landscapes in different ways through the region. It shows how conceptions of citizenship are intertwined with understandings of natural spaces and environments, how indigenous politics are de-colonizing western liberal conceptions of citizenship, and how citizenship is being transformed through local level politics and projects for development. In addition to showcasing some of the novel, emerging forms of citizenship in the region, the book also traces the ways in which historical narratives of citizenship and national belonging persist within present day politics. Collectively, the chapters show that citizenship remains an important entry point for understanding politics, projects of reform, and struggles for transformation in Latin America.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies .

Judy Meltzer holds a Doctorate in Political Science from Carleton University, Canada. Her research focuses on citizenship and development. Recent publications appear in the Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship (2014 forthcoming), Environment & Citizenship in Latin America (2012). She is co-editor of a special issue of Citizenship Studies (2013).

Cristina Rojas is Professor of Political Science at Carleton University, Canada. Her research focuses on decolonizing global governance and emancipatory practices of citizenship. Her recent articles are published in Citizenship Studies , Globalizations , and Bulletin of Latin American Research . She is the author of Civilization and Violence: Regimes of Representation in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (2002).

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Judy Meltzer and Cristina Rojas

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The chapters in this book were originally published in Citizenship Studies , volume 17, issue 5 (August 2013). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

Introduction: Narratives and imaginaries of citizenship in Latin America: In memoriam of Fernando Coronil (19442011)
Judy Meltzer and Cristina Rojas
Citizenship Studies , volume 17, issue 5 (August 2013) pp. 525529

Legal narratives of citizenship, the social question, and public order in Colombia, 19151930 and after
Catherine C. LeGrand
Citizenship Studies , volume 17, issue 5 (August 2013) pp. 530550

Nationalism and immigrant labor in a tropical enclave: the West Indians of Coln City, 18501936
Marixa Lasso
Citizenship Studies , volume 17, issue 5 (August 2013) pp. 551565

Locating natures citizens: Latin American ecologies of political space
Alex Latta
Citizenship Studies , volume 17, issue 5 (August 2013) pp. 566580

Acts of indigenship: historical struggles for equality and colonial difference in Bolivia
Cristina Rojas
Citizenship Studies , volume 17, issue 5 (August 2013) pp. 581595

Decolonizing citizenship: reflections on the coloniality of power in Argentina
Lucy Taylor
Citizenship Studies , volume 17, issue 5 (August 2013) pp. 596610

Managing the citizen: privatized public works and the bureaucratic management of citizenship in post-authoritarian Chile, 19902005
Enrique R. Silva
Citizenship Studies , volume 17, issue 5 (August 2013) pp. 611626

Narratives of citizenship in Medelln, Colombia
Daniel Tubb
Citizenship Studies , volume 17, issue 5 (August 2013) pp. 627640

Good citizenship and the promotion of personal savings accounts in Peru
Judy Meltzer
Citizenship Studies , volume 17, issue 5 (August 2013) pp. 641652

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In memoriam of Fernando Coronil (19442011)

Judy Meltzer and Cristina Rojas
Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

In Latin America, citizenship and the constitution of a 'citizenry' have been key elements of post-independence nation-building projects since the nineteenth century. Despite efforts to institutionalize 'modern' liberal versions of citizenship, the boundaries of citizenship in the region have been circumscribed by racial, spatial, class-based, and gendered hierarchies. The realization of formal political and civil rights continues to be limited by weak democratic institutions and rule of law, and limits to social rights are starkly evident in persistent poverty, extreme inequality, and lack of access to basic social services for significant portions of the population. Rather than focusing on citizenship only in terms of its 'absences', however, this special issue looks beyond citizenship as a formal legal status to explore how it has been imagined, mobilized, and transformed in different ways in the region at different points in time and to what effects.