Martijn Koster
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 93041 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Martijn Koster |
| NOMBRES | Martijn |
| APELLIDO | Koster |
| FIRMA | KOSTER M |
| AFILIACIONES | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0003-5345 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 272 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Neither dead nor alive
This article focuses on PREZEIS, an internationally acclaimed participatory slum governance program in Recife, Brazil. PREZEIS was implemented in 1987 and emerged out of a strong popular movement that resisted forced evictions of squatter settlements under the military regime (1964-1985). To date, however, its main objectives-upgrading slums and regularizing land rights-have not been achieved, and its executive powers have been dismantled over th…
Beyond Formal-Informal Dichotomies
Debates on informality have been mainly structured along dichotomous formal-informal, regular-irregular, or legal-illegal lines, where government and the law equate to formality. Ethnographic studies, however, have often demonstrated that formality and informality coexist. An increasing number of scholars have emphasized that the formal and the informal are always and everywhere intertwined. Domains that seem very formal contain informal practice…
The Political Potential of Urban Informality in the Global North
In recent years, a growing number of scholars have highlighted the presence of urban informality in the Global North. Although we applaud this development, we deplore that this body of literature is characterized by analytical ambiguity and fragmented discussions. More specifically, the literature often reduces or repudiates the political potential of urban informality by (a) integrating it into the formal, (b) mobilizing it for policy purposes, …
Illegal Housing in Medellín
Drawing on ethnographic research in El Oasis, a highly precarious self-built settlement in Medellín, Colombia, this article examines the illegal practice of autoconstruction as a material expression of hope. It focuses on the multilayered, symbolic meaning of self-built housing, as it represents the pursuit of dignity, permanence, and agency-as opposed to poverty, uncertainty, and lack of agency-and an active and material form of hoping for a bet…
Clientelism in Northeast Brazil
In scholarship on informal politics in Brazil, clientelism is a well-studied phenomenon. While studies of clientelism generally concentrate on elections, campaigning and vote buying, clientelist practices and their impact extend well beyond this temporal and thematic focus. This article develops an approach that builds on theories of brokerage in anthropology and social network studies. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in low-income neig…
Planning for a world beyond Covid-19
COVID-19 has shaken the world. Countless lives have been lost or devastated, and as of \nNovember 2020, the pandemic shows little sign of abatement. Emergency responses across \nthe world have led to drastic changes in local and global development trajectories within a very \nshort period of time. Yet precisely how these changes will take shape depends on underlying \nhistorical and socio-economic forces that must become part of our understanding…
An Ethnographic Perspective on Urban Planning in Brazil
This article provides an ethnographic perspective on urban planning by presenting the creative practices of marginalized slum residents in Recife, Northeast Brazil, who are affected by planners' decisions. It argues that such a perspective contributes to current critical urban theory in three ways. First, while many studies of urban planning follow the temporality of the timeframe of a particular project ('project time'), this analysis emphasizes…
Olympic Legacies
Expectations of urban upgrading projects in light of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro oscillated between hopeful prospects and pessimistic anticipation. The different opinions were clearly interwoven with stark socioeconomic inequalities and urban segregation. While authorities spread a celebratory narrative of improvements for the whole city, critics depicted a dystopian vision of spatial interventions that would violat…
The Myth of Formality in the Global North
Why has urban informality in the global North received so little attention? We suggest that this neglect can be explained in part by the tendency of scholarship to reproduce the myth of Northern formality: the widely held belief that informality occurs only in corrupt and clientelist 'developing countries'. This myth has allowed activities and connections that would generally be framed as clientelist or corrupt in the global South to be rebranded…
Assembling Formal and Informal Urban Governance
This article approaches urban governance as an assemblage of formal and informal practices, comprising official procedures and personal favours, of legal frameworks and private arrangements between bureaucrats and residents. Within such assemblages, I show how community leaders of low-income neighbourhoods in the city of Recife, Brazil, operate as brokers between the state and their fellow residents. The community leaders are key actors in forgin…
Facing bureaucratic uncertainty in the Bolsa Família Program
Clientelism is often analyzed along lines of moral values and reciprocity or an economic rationality. This article, instead, moves beyond this dichotomy and shows how both frameworks coexist and become entwined. Based on ethnographic research in a city in the Brazilian Northeast, it analyzes how the anti-poverty Bolsa Família Program and its bureaucracy are entangled with electoral politics and clientelism. We show how the program's beneficiaries…
Introduction
Betrayal in the City
This special issue, “Betrayal in the City: Urban Development across the Globe,” presents studies of urban development that include practices and experiences of betrayal. In the introduction, we argued how betrayal is inherent to urban development. The ensuing articles brought together debates from both urban anthropology and the anthropology of the state. Questions about the urban—and how it is changing—are thus entangled with questions about the…
Dutch-Moroccan Girls Navigating Public Space
Based on qualitative research among female Dutch-Moroccan teenagers in two underprivileged neighborhoods in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands, this article focuses on the spatial practices of young Muslim women in public space. Compared to their male counterparts, who “hang around” in groups, female teens spend less time in public space. We focus on girls’ “wandering practices” through the neighborhood, a spatial practice structured by their s…
Regimes De Ordenação Espacial No Brasil
Este artigo mostra como os regimes de ordenação espacial são produzidos pela junção de três forças: neoliberalismo, políticas de esquerda e visões modernistas. Ele focaliza o PROMETRÓPOLE, um programa de urbanização em Recife. Nesse programa, a dimensão neoliberal é manifesta na ideia de que o Estado, as empresas privadas e os cidadãos são responsáveis conjuntamente pela construção do espaço urbano. Além disso, espera-se que os beneficiários seja…
Assembling the Irreconcilable
This article demonstrates how youth workers in a Dutch city bring together seemingly irreconcilable worlds: the development policies of their organisations and the state on the one hand and the practices, needs and aspirations of young people on the other. Current policies, like much academic literature on street-level professionals, define youth workers as frontline workers, implementing policies as representatives of their organisations. We app…
Brokers as Assemblers
n Contains fulltext :\n 196044.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n
Coproducing urban space
Providing an introduction to the special section ‘Close encounters: ethnographies of the coproduction of space by the urban poor’, this article sets out to argue that the image of ‘the informal’ as unruly, messy and dirty continues to inform urban planning around the world. As a reaction to this view, it contends that the informal and formal should be analysed as interconnected and that the informal sphere should be revalued. Urban development is…
Play and work
In recent decades, sport as a social practice has become relevant in many different fields: in health, economy, politics, education, work and leisure. The importance of sport transcends the confine
Citizenship agendas in and beyond the nation-state
This special issue analyzes the formulation, implementation, and contestation of citizenship agendas. We define citizenship agendas as normative framings of citizenship that prescribe what norms, v
Citizenship agendas, urban governance and social housing in the Netherlands
This article combines recent conceptualizations of citizenship beyond the nation state with new perspectives on governance assemblages comprising both state and non-state actors. Focusing on Dutch social housing, this study explores how such governance assemblages produce agendas that attempt to shape citizenship. Employing an assemblage approach, this study first demonstrates how state and non-state actors amalgamate by providing a historical ov…
Brazilian brokers, boundaries and buildings
This article contributes to understanding the material culture of contemporary political practice, particularly in a context of high sociopolitical inequality, by focusing on the spatiality and materiality of political brokerage. Its central question is where brokers mediate between different worlds and with what material artifacts. The author presents the case of community leaders in a favela in Recife, Brazil, who operate at the boundary betwee…
Fear and Intimacy
In Brazil, citizenship rights and the institutionalisation of citizen participation have advanced significantly under the democratic regime. However, many of the urban poor are still alienated from the state and its legal system. This article argues that, to understand the citizenship of these 'half-citizens', it is necessary to take account of an unofficial realm of practices. I show how residents of a slum in Recife interpret and deal with the …
Regimes of spatial ordering in Brazil
This paper shows how regimes of spatial ordering in Brazil are produced by the entangling of neoliberalism, leftist populism and modernist visions. The paper focuses on Prometrópole, a slum upgrading project in Recife funded by the World Bank, which commenced in 2007. In this project, the neoliberal dimension manifests in the idea that the state, private companies and citizens together are responsible for (re)constructing urban space, and further…
From Preamble to Post‐project Frustrations
This article presents an ethnography of the evolution of Prometrópole, a slum upgrading project in the Brazilian city of Recife. The project aims to improve the urban infrastructure, eradicate slums and resettle the population. We focus on the project's first area of intervention, Jacarezinho. We analyze how, from lead‐up through implementation, the project gained shape and gradually became real. Participatory procedures were very important in sh…
Brokers as Assemblers
n Contains fulltext :\n 196044.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n
Citizenship agendas in and beyond the nation-state
This special issue analyzes the formulation, implementation, and contestation of citizenship agendas. We define citizenship agendas as normative framings of citizenship that prescribe what norms, v
Mediating and getting 'burnt' in the gap
This article takes a fresh look at political brokerage as a complex, provisional and contested phenomenon. Although brokerage has received little recent attention, I show how it remains critical to understanding the urban poor's involvement in electoral politics. The article focuses on how local community leaders in a Recife slum, Brazil, operate as brokers during elections. Here, they have to deal with the different interests of their patrons (p…
From Preamble to Post‐project Frustrations
This article presents an ethnography of the evolution of Prometrópole, a slum upgrading project in the Brazilian city of Recife. The project aims to improve the urban infrastructure, eradicate slums and resettle the population. We focus on the project's first area of intervention, Jacarezinho. We analyze how, from lead‐up through implementation, the project gained shape and gradually became real. Participatory procedures were very important in sh…
The Myth of Formality in the Global North
Why has urban informality in the global North received so little attention? We suggest that this neglect can be explained in part by the tendency of scholarship to reproduce the myth of Northern formality: the widely held belief that informality occurs only in corrupt and clientelist 'developing countries'. This myth has allowed activities and connections that would generally be framed as clientelist or corrupt in the global South to be rebranded…
Fear and Intimacy
In Brazil, citizenship rights and the institutionalisation of citizen participation have advanced significantly under the democratic regime. However, many of the urban poor are still alienated from the state and its legal system. This article argues that, to understand the citizenship of these 'half-citizens', it is necessary to take account of an unofficial realm of practices. I show how residents of a slum in Recife interpret and deal with the …
Planning for a world beyond Covid-19
COVID-19 has shaken the world. Countless lives have been lost or devastated, and as of \nNovember 2020, the pandemic shows little sign of abatement. Emergency responses across \nthe world have led to drastic changes in local and global development trajectories within a very \nshort period of time. Yet precisely how these changes will take shape depends on underlying \nhistorical and socio-economic forces that must become part of our understanding…
Dutch-Moroccan Girls Navigating Public Space
Based on qualitative research among female Dutch-Moroccan teenagers in two underprivileged neighborhoods in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands, this article focuses on the spatial practices of young Muslim women in public space. Compared to their male counterparts, who “hang around” in groups, female teens spend less time in public space. We focus on girls’ “wandering practices” through the neighborhood, a spatial practice structured by their s…
Citizenship agendas, urban governance and social housing in the Netherlands
This article combines recent conceptualizations of citizenship beyond the nation state with new perspectives on governance assemblages comprising both state and non-state actors. Focusing on Dutch social housing, this study explores how such governance assemblages produce agendas that attempt to shape citizenship. Employing an assemblage approach, this study first demonstrates how state and non-state actors amalgamate by providing a historical ov…
Slum politics
This article envisages slum dwellers' politics in Recife, Brazil as a realm of possibility in which care and recognition are central. Community leaders are its main facilitators as articulators of slum dwellers' needs and aspirations. The article's notion of slum politics is an elaboration of Chatterjee's (2004) ideas on popular politics as a "politics of the governed." Yet the article critiques the governmentality perspective for its inability t…
Facing bureaucratic uncertainty in the Bolsa Família Program
Clientelism is often analyzed along lines of moral values and reciprocity or an economic rationality. This article, instead, moves beyond this dichotomy and shows how both frameworks coexist and become entwined. Based on ethnographic research in a city in the Brazilian Northeast, it analyzes how the anti-poverty Bolsa Família Program and its bureaucracy are entangled with electoral politics and clientelism. We show how the program's beneficiaries…
Betrayal in the City
This special issue, “Betrayal in the City: Urban Development across the Globe,” presents studies of urban development that include practices and experiences of betrayal. In the introduction, we argued how betrayal is inherent to urban development. The ensuing articles brought together debates from both urban anthropology and the anthropology of the state. Questions about the urban—and how it is changing—are thus entangled with questions about the…
Assembling the Irreconcilable
This article demonstrates how youth workers in a Dutch city bring together seemingly irreconcilable worlds: the development policies of their organisations and the state on the one hand and the practices, needs and aspirations of young people on the other. Current policies, like much academic literature on street-level professionals, define youth workers as frontline workers, implementing policies as representatives of their organisations. We app…
Brazilian brokers, boundaries and buildings
This article contributes to understanding the material culture of contemporary political practice, particularly in a context of high sociopolitical inequality, by focusing on the spatiality and materiality of political brokerage. Its central question is where brokers mediate between different worlds and with what material artifacts. The author presents the case of community leaders in a favela in Recife, Brazil, who operate at the boundary betwee…
Problems and coping behaviour of facial cancer patients
Performing In/formality beyond the Dichotomy
This introduction to the special issue "Moving Beyond the Formal/Informal Dichotomy: Implications for Governance" provides an overview of recent debates on informality and argues in favour of understanding in/formality as a performance. Although informality and formality are often presented as opposing or even mutually excluding domains of social practice, ethnographic studies show how they coexist and are intertwined. Our special issue, with stu…
Clientelism in Northeast Brazil
In scholarship on informal politics in Brazil, clientelism is a well-studied phenomenon. While studies of clientelism generally concentrate on elections, campaigning and vote buying, clientelist practices and their impact extend well beyond this temporal and thematic focus. This article develops an approach that builds on theories of brokerage in anthropology and social network studies. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in low-income neig…
Illegal Housing in Medellín
Drawing on ethnographic research in El Oasis, a highly precarious self-built settlement in Medellín, Colombia, this article examines the illegal practice of autoconstruction as a material expression of hope. It focuses on the multilayered, symbolic meaning of self-built housing, as it represents the pursuit of dignity, permanence, and agency-as opposed to poverty, uncertainty, and lack of agency-and an active and material form of hoping for a bet…
An Ethnographic Perspective on Urban Planning in Brazil
This article provides an ethnographic perspective on urban planning by presenting the creative practices of marginalized slum residents in Recife, Northeast Brazil, who are affected by planners' decisions. It argues that such a perspective contributes to current critical urban theory in three ways. First, while many studies of urban planning follow the temporality of the timeframe of a particular project ('project time'), this analysis emphasizes…
Olympic Legacies
Expectations of urban upgrading projects in light of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro oscillated between hopeful prospects and pessimistic anticipation. The different opinions were clearly interwoven with stark socioeconomic inequalities and urban segregation. While authorities spread a celebratory narrative of improvements for the whole city, critics depicted a dystopian vision of spatial interventions that would violat…
Neither dead nor alive
This article focuses on PREZEIS, an internationally acclaimed participatory slum governance program in Recife, Brazil. PREZEIS was implemented in 1987 and emerged out of a strong popular movement that resisted forced evictions of squatter settlements under the military regime (1964-1985). To date, however, its main objectives-upgrading slums and regularizing land rights-have not been achieved, and its executive powers have been dismantled over th…
The Political Potential of Urban Informality in the Global North
In recent years, a growing number of scholars have highlighted the presence of urban informality in the Global North. Although we applaud this development, we deplore that this body of literature is characterized by analytical ambiguity and fragmented discussions. More specifically, the literature often reduces or repudiates the political potential of urban informality by (a) integrating it into the formal, (b) mobilizing it for policy purposes, …
Introduction
Assembling Formal and Informal Urban Governance
This article approaches urban governance as an assemblage of formal and informal practices, comprising official procedures and personal favours, of legal frameworks and private arrangements between bureaucrats and residents. Within such assemblages, I show how community leaders of low-income neighbourhoods in the city of Recife, Brazil, operate as brokers between the state and their fellow residents. The community leaders are key actors in forgin…
Regimes De Ordenação Espacial No Brasil
Este artigo mostra como os regimes de ordenação espacial são produzidos pela junção de três forças: neoliberalismo, políticas de esquerda e visões modernistas. Ele focaliza o PROMETRÓPOLE, um programa de urbanização em Recife. Nesse programa, a dimensão neoliberal é manifesta na ideia de que o Estado, as empresas privadas e os cidadãos são responsáveis conjuntamente pela construção do espaço urbano. Além disso, espera-se que os beneficiários seja…
Performing In/formality beyond the Dichotomy
This introduction to the special issue "Moving Beyond the Formal/Informal Dichotomy: Implications for Governance" provides an overview of recent debates on informality and argues in favour of understanding in/formality as a performance. Although informality and formality are often presented as opposing or even mutually excluding domains of social practice, ethnographic studies show how they coexist and are intertwined. Our special issue, with stu…
Problems and coping behaviour of facial cancer patients
Regimes of spatial ordering in Brazil
This paper shows how regimes of spatial ordering in Brazil are produced by the entangling of neoliberalism, leftist populism and modernist visions. The paper focuses on Prometrópole, a slum upgrading project in Recife funded by the World Bank, which commenced in 2007. In this project, the neoliberal dimension manifests in the idea that the state, private companies and citizens together are responsible for (re)constructing urban space, and further…
From Preamble to Post‐project Frustrations
This article presents an ethnography of the evolution of Prometrópole, a slum upgrading project in the Brazilian city of Recife. The project aims to improve the urban infrastructure, eradicate slums and resettle the population. We focus on the project's first area of intervention, Jacarezinho. We analyze how, from lead‐up through implementation, the project gained shape and gradually became real. Participatory procedures were very important in sh…
Slum politics
This article envisages slum dwellers' politics in Recife, Brazil as a realm of possibility in which care and recognition are central. Community leaders are its main facilitators as articulators of slum dwellers' needs and aspirations. The article's notion of slum politics is an elaboration of Chatterjee's (2004) ideas on popular politics as a "politics of the governed." Yet the article critiques the governmentality perspective for its inability t…
Mediating and getting 'burnt' in the gap
This article takes a fresh look at political brokerage as a complex, provisional and contested phenomenon. Although brokerage has received little recent attention, I show how it remains critical to understanding the urban poor's involvement in electoral politics. The article focuses on how local community leaders in a Recife slum, Brazil, operate as brokers during elections. Here, they have to deal with the different interests of their patrons (p…
Brazilian brokers, boundaries and buildings
This article contributes to understanding the material culture of contemporary political practice, particularly in a context of high sociopolitical inequality, by focusing on the spatiality and materiality of political brokerage. Its central question is where brokers mediate between different worlds and with what material artifacts. The author presents the case of community leaders in a favela in Recife, Brazil, who operate at the boundary betwee…
Fear and Intimacy
In Brazil, citizenship rights and the institutionalisation of citizen participation have advanced significantly under the democratic regime. However, many of the urban poor are still alienated from the state and its legal system. This article argues that, to understand the citizenship of these 'half-citizens', it is necessary to take account of an unofficial realm of practices. I show how residents of a slum in Recife interpret and deal with the …
Citizenship agendas in and beyond the nation-state
This special issue analyzes the formulation, implementation, and contestation of citizenship agendas. We define citizenship agendas as normative framings of citizenship that prescribe what norms, v
Citizenship agendas, urban governance and social housing in the Netherlands
This article combines recent conceptualizations of citizenship beyond the nation state with new perspectives on governance assemblages comprising both state and non-state actors. Focusing on Dutch social housing, this study explores how such governance assemblages produce agendas that attempt to shape citizenship. Employing an assemblage approach, this study first demonstrates how state and non-state actors amalgamate by providing a historical ov…
Coproducing urban space
Providing an introduction to the special section ‘Close encounters: ethnographies of the coproduction of space by the urban poor’, this article sets out to argue that the image of ‘the informal’ as unruly, messy and dirty continues to inform urban planning around the world. As a reaction to this view, it contends that the informal and formal should be analysed as interconnected and that the informal sphere should be revalued. Urban development is…
Play and work
In recent decades, sport as a social practice has become relevant in many different fields: in health, economy, politics, education, work and leisure. The importance of sport transcends the confine
Dutch-Moroccan Girls Navigating Public Space
Based on qualitative research among female Dutch-Moroccan teenagers in two underprivileged neighborhoods in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands, this article focuses on the spatial practices of young Muslim women in public space. Compared to their male counterparts, who “hang around” in groups, female teens spend less time in public space. We focus on girls’ “wandering practices” through the neighborhood, a spatial practice structured by their s…
Regimes De Ordenação Espacial No Brasil
Este artigo mostra como os regimes de ordenação espacial são produzidos pela junção de três forças: neoliberalismo, políticas de esquerda e visões modernistas. Ele focaliza o PROMETRÓPOLE, um programa de urbanização em Recife. Nesse programa, a dimensão neoliberal é manifesta na ideia de que o Estado, as empresas privadas e os cidadãos são responsáveis conjuntamente pela construção do espaço urbano. Além disso, espera-se que os beneficiários seja…
Assembling the Irreconcilable
This article demonstrates how youth workers in a Dutch city bring together seemingly irreconcilable worlds: the development policies of their organisations and the state on the one hand and the practices, needs and aspirations of young people on the other. Current policies, like much academic literature on street-level professionals, define youth workers as frontline workers, implementing policies as representatives of their organisations. We app…
Brokers as Assemblers
n Contains fulltext :\n 196044.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n
The Myth of Formality in the Global North
Why has urban informality in the global North received so little attention? We suggest that this neglect can be explained in part by the tendency of scholarship to reproduce the myth of Northern formality: the widely held belief that informality occurs only in corrupt and clientelist 'developing countries'. This myth has allowed activities and connections that would generally be framed as clientelist or corrupt in the global South to be rebranded…
Assembling Formal and Informal Urban Governance
This article approaches urban governance as an assemblage of formal and informal practices, comprising official procedures and personal favours, of legal frameworks and private arrangements between bureaucrats and residents. Within such assemblages, I show how community leaders of low-income neighbourhoods in the city of Recife, Brazil, operate as brokers between the state and their fellow residents. The community leaders are key actors in forgin…
Facing bureaucratic uncertainty in the Bolsa Família Program
Clientelism is often analyzed along lines of moral values and reciprocity or an economic rationality. This article, instead, moves beyond this dichotomy and shows how both frameworks coexist and become entwined. Based on ethnographic research in a city in the Brazilian Northeast, it analyzes how the anti-poverty Bolsa Família Program and its bureaucracy are entangled with electoral politics and clientelism. We show how the program's beneficiaries…
Introduction
Betrayal in the City
This special issue, “Betrayal in the City: Urban Development across the Globe,” presents studies of urban development that include practices and experiences of betrayal. In the introduction, we argued how betrayal is inherent to urban development. The ensuing articles brought together debates from both urban anthropology and the anthropology of the state. Questions about the urban—and how it is changing—are thus entangled with questions about the…
Planning for a world beyond Covid-19
COVID-19 has shaken the world. Countless lives have been lost or devastated, and as of \nNovember 2020, the pandemic shows little sign of abatement. Emergency responses across \nthe world have led to drastic changes in local and global development trajectories within a very \nshort period of time. Yet precisely how these changes will take shape depends on underlying \nhistorical and socio-economic forces that must become part of our understanding…
An Ethnographic Perspective on Urban Planning in Brazil
This article provides an ethnographic perspective on urban planning by presenting the creative practices of marginalized slum residents in Recife, Northeast Brazil, who are affected by planners' decisions. It argues that such a perspective contributes to current critical urban theory in three ways. First, while many studies of urban planning follow the temporality of the timeframe of a particular project ('project time'), this analysis emphasizes…
Olympic Legacies
Expectations of urban upgrading projects in light of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro oscillated between hopeful prospects and pessimistic anticipation. The different opinions were clearly interwoven with stark socioeconomic inequalities and urban segregation. While authorities spread a celebratory narrative of improvements for the whole city, critics depicted a dystopian vision of spatial interventions that would violat…
Clientelism in Northeast Brazil
In scholarship on informal politics in Brazil, clientelism is a well-studied phenomenon. While studies of clientelism generally concentrate on elections, campaigning and vote buying, clientelist practices and their impact extend well beyond this temporal and thematic focus. This article develops an approach that builds on theories of brokerage in anthropology and social network studies. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in low-income neig…
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