Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins

Moisés Kopper is Research Professor at the Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, and Principal Investigator in the ERC Starting Grant “Informational Citizenship: Toward a Global Ethnography of Practices and Infrastructures of Datafication in the Global South.” He is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. He recently authored Architectures of Hope: Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing (University of Michigan Press, 2022).

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Exploring Subjectivity at Latin America’s Urban MarginsMoisés Kopper and Matthew A. Richmond*available open access under a CC BY NC ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of Research, Innovation & Valorisation Antwerp (RIVA) of the University of Antwerp.Part I: Theorizing the Urban MarginsChapter 1. Where are Latin America’s Urban Margins? How the Margins Materialize in Peripheries, Interstices, and CircuitsMatthew A. Richmond and Moisés KopperChapter 2. Positioning Latin America’s Urban Margins: Where and How Does Latin America Live?Patria Román-Velázquez, Alejandra García Vargas, and Jessica RetisChapter 3. Women Doing Fieldwork in the Margins: Embodiment and SubjectivityLuana Dias Motta, Valéria Cristina de Oliveira, Simone Ribeiro Gomes, Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti, Laurie Denyer Willis, and Fernanda Mendes Lages RibeiroPart II: Living PrecariouslyChapter 4. Marginalization Processes and Disputes over Livelihoods in Buenos Aires from the standpoint of Wast Pickers and Street VendorsMaría Inés Fernández-Álvarez and Mariano PerelmanChapter 5. Distinction at the Margins: Negotiating Stigmas in Informal Markets in São PauloFelipe Rangel Martins and Angelo Martins JuniorChapter 6. The Bind of Repair: Welfare and the Troublesome Subjectivity of Colombia’s War VictimsSebastián Ramírez H.Chapter 7. Two Families, Fifty Years Apart: On Women, Wealth, and Violence in Marginalized Mexico CityRegnar KristensenPart III: Expressing Marginalized SubjectivityChapter 8. Hip Hop, Transgredience, and Carnalismo at the Margins of Mexico CityRuben Enrique Campos IIIChapter 9. Embodying Virtuous Subjectivity: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu between Individual Empowerment and the Moralization of Inequality at the Margins of Rio de JaneiroRaphael SchapiraChapter 10. A Pedagogy of Convivência: Exploring the Potência of Individual and Collective Subjectivity in Brazilian PeripheriesFernando Lannes Fernandes, Jailson de Souza e Silva, and Jorge Luiz BarbosaPart IV: Challenging SubalternityChapter 11. Rethinking the Margin as a Life-Affirming PlaceAgustina SoleraChapter 12. Differential Citizenship and Forced Displacement in the City of the World Cup and the Pernambuco Arena: Project Morality in Urban MarginsParry Scott, Alice Moura, and Núbia ClementinoChapter 13. Cycling Mexico City’s Edge: Embodied Subjectivation Among Marginal CycloactivistsRaúl AcostaAfterword: Brief Notes to Study Life at the MarginsJavier Auyero