Brazil - Cynical Citizenship: Gender, Regionalism, and Political Subjectivity in Porto Alegre, Brazil. By Benjamin Junge. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018. Pp. 286. $65.00 cloth.

IF 0.6 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Americas Pub Date : 2020-10-21 DOI:10.1017/tam.2020.87
Y. González
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This book is part of a tradition of scholarship that views understanding citizenship as necessary for understanding the nature of democracy. Although based on fieldwork conducted more than 15 years ago, the book sheds considerable light on the state of Brazilian democracy today. Situated in the heyday of Porto Alegre’s international reputation as “a vibrant center of leftist political experimentation and civic participation” (1), the euphoria of Lula’s electoral victory, and the idealism of the World Social Forum, the book offers a nuanced multilevel perspective and careful analysis, identifying the underlying tensions and contradictions that would gradually undermine an ambitious political project and foreshadowing the threats they would subsequently pose for Brazilian democracy. In doing so, Junge’s book makes important contributions to literatures on citizenship and democracy—participatory democracy in particular—challenging much of the conventional wisdom of this field of scholarship through the sobering perspectives of ordinary citizens.
巴西——巴西阿雷格里港的愤世嫉俗的公民身份:性别、地区主义和政治主体性。本杰明·荣格著。阿尔伯克基:新墨西哥大学出版社,2018。286页。布65.00美元。
这本书是学术传统的一部分,认为理解公民身份是理解民主本质的必要条件。尽管这本书是以15年前的实地调查为基础,但它对当今巴西的民主状况提供了相当多的了解。坐落在阿雷格里港作为“左翼政治实验和公民参与的活力中心”的国际声誉的全盛时期(1),卢拉选举胜利的喜悦,以及世界社会论坛的理想主义,这本书提供了一个微妙的多层次视角和仔细的分析。确定了潜在的紧张局势和矛盾,这些紧张局势和矛盾将逐渐破坏一个雄心勃勃的政治项目,并预示了它们随后将对巴西民主构成的威胁。在此过程中,Junge的书对关于公民和民主的文献做出了重要贡献,特别是参与式民主,通过普通公民的清醒视角挑战了这一学术领域的许多传统智慧。
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