ERC Consolidator Grant · 2022
Politics of the Periphery’ in Urban Latin America: Reconceptualising Politics from the Margins
Existing theory on how residents of urban peripheries engage with the state is largely state-centric. Political anthropology and urban studies have generally conceptualised periphery-state engagements as non-standard citizenship, informal politics, or protest. Such conceptualisations risk contributing to inequality, as they understand the politics of marginalised city residents as ‘less than’ or only as ‘anti’ formal state policies and citizenship regimes. POPULAR will counter this disparity by developing a theory of politics that reconceptualises periphery-state engagements from the vantage point of the periphery. This reconceptualisation will connect the concepts and practices residents…
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