Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Figures VII
4. Acknowledgments IX
5. Introduction. Exploring Subjectivity at Latin America’s Urban Margins 1
6. Part I. Theorizing the Urban Margins
7. Chapter 1. Where Are Latin America’s Urban Margins? How the Margins Materialize in Peripheries, Interstices, and Circuits 25
8. Chapter 2. Positioning Latin America’s Urban Margins: Where and How Does Latin America Live? 49
9. Chapter 3. Women Doing Fieldwork in the Margins: Embodiment and Subjectivity 67
10. Part II. Living Precariously
11. Chapter 4. Marginalization Processes and Disputes over Livelihoods in Buenos Aires from the Standpoint of Waste Pickers and Street Vendors 87
12. Chapter 5. Distinction at the Margins: Negotiating Stigmas in Informal Markets in São Paulo 110
13. Chapter 6. The Bind of Repair: Welfare and the Troublesome Subjectivity of Colombia’s War Victims 128
14. Chapter 7. Two Families, Fifty Years Apart: On Women, Wealth, and Violence in Marginalized Mexico City 148
15. Part III. Expressing Marginalized Subjectivity
16. Chapter 8. Hip-Hop, Transgredience, and Carnalismo at the Margins of Mexico City 169
17. Chapter 9. Embodying Virtuous Subjectivity: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu between Individual Empowerment and the Moralization of Inequality at the Margins of Rio de Janeiro 192
18. Chapter 10. A Pedagogy of Convivência: Exploring the Potência of Individual and Collective Subjectivity in Brazilian Peripheries 210
19. Part IV. Challenging Subalternity
20. Chapter 11. Rethinking the Margin as a Life-Affirming Place 233
21. Chapter 12. Differential Citizenship and Forced Displacement in the City of the World Cup and the Pernambuco Arena: Project Morality in Urban Margins 254
22. Chapter 13. Cycling Mexico City’s Edge: Embodied Subjectivation among Marginal Cycloactivists 281
23. Afterword. Brief Notes to Study Life at the Margins 301
24. Index 307