While in the days of the Cold War models of citizenship were relatively clear-cut around the contrasting projects of reform and revolution, in the last three decades Latin America has become a laboratory for comparative research. The region has witnessed both a renewal of electoral democracy and the diversification of experiments in citizen representation and participation. The implementation of neo-liberal policies has led to countervailing transformations in democratic citizenship and to the rise of populist leaderships, while the crisis of representation has been accompanied by new forms of participation, generating profound transformations. The authors analyze these recent trends, reflected in new forms of populism, inclusion and exclusion, participation and alternative models of democracy, social insecurity and violence, diasporas and transnationalism, the politics of justice and the politics of identity and multiculturalism.

A sweeping history of Latin American republicanism in the nineteenth century By the 1820s, after three centuries under imperial rule, the former Spanish territories of Latin America had shaken off their colonial bonds and founded independent republics. In committing themselves to republicanism, they embarked on a political experiment of an unprecedented scale outside the newly formed United States. In this book, Hilda Sabato provides a sweeping history of republicanism in nineteenth-century Latin America, one that spans the entire region and places the Spanish American experience within a broader global perspective. Challenging the conventional view of Latin America as a case of failed modernization, Sabato shows how republican experiments differed across the region yet were all based on the radical notion of popular sovereignty--the idea that legitimate authority lies with the people. As in other parts of the world, the transition from colonies to independent states was complex, uncertain, and rife with conflict. Yet the republican order in Spanish America endured, crossing borders and traversing distinct geographies and cultures. Sabato shifts the focus from rulers and elites to ordinary citizens and traces the emergence of new institutions and practices that shaped a vigorous and inclusive political life. Panoramic in scope and certain to provoke debate, this book situates these fledgling republics in the context of a transatlantic shift in how government was conceived and practiced, and puts Latin America at the center of a revolutionary age that gave birth to new ideas of citizenship.

"Las nuevas demandas con respecto a la ciudad han hecho surgir nuevas formas de ciudadanía y demanda de derechos, que tienen en el lugar su principal foco de atención. La ciudad como espacio de inversión y realización del capital y la ciudad como espacio de oportunidades de trabajo, sitio de asentamiento, reconocimiento de culturas y ejercicio de capacidades. En los intersticios de las fuertes polaridades de la ciudad moderna han surgido muy diversas iniciativas de los actores sociales a través de las cuales se cuestionan los procesos globalizadores en distintos planos, buscando generar formas de pertenencia, nuevas propuestas de desarrollo urbano y estrategias muy variadas de sobrevivencia. A partir de estos reconocimientos emergen numerosas preguntas con respecto a la ciudadanía, tanto en la plano político-ideológico como en el analítico, que son algunas de las cuestiones que se ponen de relieve en los textos de este libro: ¿Cuál es el ámbito en el que debe formularse actualmente la cuestión de los derechos y la institución de la ciudadanía: el Estado, la sociedad global, la ciudad?; ¿Cuáles son las nuevas modalidades de ciudadanía y de construcción de derechos que emergen desde los distintos procesos y actores urbanos? En este libro intentamos un acercamiento a posibles respuestas para estas cuestiones sustantivas al abordar de manera particular diferentes dimensiones y formas de expresión del fenómeno ciudadano en las grandes metrópolis del siglo XXI." (4ème de couv.)

Since its creation in 1964, readers from all over the world have loved the comic Mafalda, primarily because of the sharp wit and rebellious nature of its title character—a four-year-old girl who is wise beyond her years. Through Mafalda, Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado explores complex questions about class identity, modernization, and state violence. In Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America's Global Comic—first published in Argentina in 2014 and appearing here in English for the first time—Isabella Cosse analyzes the comic's vast appeal across multiple generations. From Mafalda breaking the fourth wall to speak directly to readers to express her opposition to the 1966 Argentine coup, to Spanish students' protest signs bearing her face, to the comic's cult status in Korea, Cosse provides insights into the cartoon's production, circulation, and incorporation into social and political conversations. Analyzing how Mafalda reflects generational conflicts, gender, modernization, the Cold War, authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and much more, Cosse demonstrates the unexpected power of humor to shape revolution and resistance.