{"product_id":"a-poverty-of-rights-9780804776608","title":"A Poverty of Rights","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Poverty of Rights\u003c\/i\u003e examines the history of poor people's citizenship in Rio from the 1920s through the 1960s, the 20th-century period that most critically shaped urban development, social inequality, and the meaning of law and rights in modern Brazil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Poverty of Rights\u003c\/i\u003e tackles an elusive topic whose importance is difficult to exaggerate. Fischer confronts the subject in an intellectually honest way, and her research is astonishing in both breadth and depth. Her dialectical approach, expressed in the axiom that 'rights poverty emerged as a compromise rather than a defeat,' illuminates the subject matter as no binary approach could.\" -- José C. Moya, University of California * Los Angeles and Barnard College *\u003cbr\u003e\"Dr. Brodwyn Fischer has written a richly researched and innovative account of the 'impossibly paradoxical historical relationship between Rio de Janeiro's urban poor and the rule of law,' with a focus on 'the degree to which hope has coexisted with cynicism and the use of laws and rights has expanded in lockstep with vital informalities'. It is an exquisitely detailed and carefully crafted monograph that advances our understanding of key aspects of Brazil's urban life, law, and politics while shedding light on the discourses and practices of the 'frustratingly vague and heterogeneous social group' designated as the urban poor, the informal sectors, or the 'povão' (the really 'common people').\" -- \u003ci\u003eSOCIAL HISTORY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One-sixth of humanity now lives in urban slums, and \u003ci\u003eA Poverty of Rights\u003c\/i\u003e offers pioneering insights into the political dimensions of urban poverty in Brazil and Latin America. Focusing on the political struggles of Rio's \u003ci\u003efavelados\u003c\/i\u003e, Fischer shows how slum dwellers' rising political consciousness motivated them to challenge their exclusion from formal politics. Their struggles resulted in conquests in both civic and property rights, despite the staying power of clientelism in Brazil's capital city.\" -- Joseph L. Love, University of Illinois * Urbana-Champaign *\u003cbr\u003e\"Few . . . have examined those excluded from the populist bargain in as sophisticated a way as Brodwyn Fisher does in her analysis of 'the connections between law, poverty and citizenship' in Brazil's then-capital of Rio de Janeiro.\" -- Hendrik Kraay * \u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Brodwyn Fischer's book will occupy a significant place at the intersection of studies of modern urban design patronage, and citizenship in Latin America.\" -- Pablo Piccato * \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Political Parties Represented in Rio de Janeiro's City Council, 1947-64\t000  A Note on Historical Context\t000  Introduction\t1  Part I: Rights to the Marvelous City  Preface to Part I: A favela vai abaixo\tPart I-1\t00  Chapter 1: The City of Hills and Swamps\t00  Chapter 2: Rio and Brazil's Populist Republic\t00  Postscript to Part I: The Morro of Santo Antonio\t00  Part II: Work, Law and Justica Social in Vargas' Rio  Preface to Part II: On the Borders of Social Class\t000  Chapter 3: Vargas and the Voz do Povo\t000  Chapter 4: Word into Law: Work and Family in Vargas-Era Legislation\t000  Postscript to Part II: Work, Welfare and Citizenship, 1945-64\t000  Part III: Rights Poverty in the Criminal Courts  Preface to Part III: Judicial Honor in the Morro\t000  Chapter 5: The Poor in Classical Criminal Law\t000  Chapter 6: Positivist Criminology and Paper Poverty\t000  Part IV: Owning the Illegal City  Preface: to Part IV Urban Ground\t000  Chapter 7: Informality in Law and Custom\t000  Chapter 8: The Land Wars of Rio de Janeiro\t000  Postscript to Part IV: The Hardscrabble City\t000  Epilogue: Poverty and Citizenship\t000  Statistical Appendixes\t000  I. Cross-Tabulations for Chapters 5 and 6\t000  II. Regressions on Pre-1945 Sample for Chapter 5\t000  III. Regressions on Post-1945 Data for Chapter Six\t000  Notes\t000  Bibliography\t  Index","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405596533079,"sku":"9780804776608","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804776608.jpg?v=1730492954","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-poverty-of-rights-9780804776608","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}