Feeling like a citizen: hope amid social exclusion in Sao Paulo during the Covid-19 pandemics

Author(s)

Roy, Indrajit ; Coelho, Vera Schattan P. ; Szabzon, Felipe

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: CITIZENSHIP STUDIES; v. 26, n. 8, p. 21-pg., 2022-11-25.

Abstract

This paper harnesses the strengths of the recent affective turn in citizenship studies. It makes three contributions to the literature. First, against proponents and critics of neoliberalism who neglect the reinventions of citizenship under 'neoliberalism', it emphasises the politics of hope advanced by socially excluded people. Second, while sympathetic to the affective turn in citizenship it addresses what it believes to be its key limitations: a neglect of the care people expect from the state and the feelings of solidarity that remain central to citizenship. Third, by reflecting on the experience of neighbourhood in Sao Paulo, the paper challenges the overwhelming focus of the affective citizenship literature on the Global North by drawing on perspectives from a key city in the Global South. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 19/17397-7 - Mental health in adversity: an ethnographic study of the experience of poor mental health in the favelas of São Paulo
• Grantee: Laura Helena Silveira Guerra de Andrade
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants