Mobilisational citizenship

Sustainable collective action in underprivileged urban Chile

Bibliographic Data

ID4525299
AuthorsSimón Escoffier (0000-0001-7835-6865, ICHEM, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago, Chile, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume22
Issue7
Pages769-790
Publication date2018-10-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2018.1508412
OpenAlexW2888451004
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited39

While academics have addressed the interaction between mobilisation and citizenship in a myriad of ways, none of them have used citizenship to explain the sustainability of collective action. Drawing on an ethnographic fieldwork in Santiago de Chile’s underprivileged neighbourhoods, this paper provides an analytical framework explaining how neighbourhood activists sustain mobilisation on the basis of citizenship construction despite Chile’s transitional and post-transitional stark political exclusion. This article calls this concept ‘mobilisational citizenship’. Building on the notion of rights-claiming, mobilisational citizenship explains how durable mobilisation results from the dynamic interaction between four factors: agentic memory, mobilising belonging, mobilising boundaries and decentralised protagonism. Through mobilisational citizenship, local residents politicise their neighbourhood, build autonomous local empowerment and self-define their political incorporation

Action (physics) · Citizenship · Collective action · Physics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Social Sciences and Policies

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