Development in Practice · 2007 · 174 citations · 4 references
Social SciencesPolitical ScienceAmerican PoliticsDemocratizationPolitical SociologyCitizenship IssuesCitizenship PolicyCitizenship RightsCitizenship TheoryLatino Citizenship StudiesLatino PoliticsCitizenship ParticipationCitizenship StudiesLiberal CitizenshipParticipatory Citizenship
This article discusses the different meanings that citizenship has assumed in Latin America in the past few decades. Its main argument is that, in the perverse confluence between neo-liberal and democratic participatory projects, the common reference to citizenship, used by different political actors, projects an apparent homogeneity, obscuring differences and diluting the conflict between those projects.
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