books by James Holston

books by James Holston

books:

James Holston

Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil (In-formation)
James Holston

Princeton University Press, 2007

Insurgent citizenships have arisen in cities around the world. This book examines the insurgence of democratic citizenship in the urban peripheries of São Paulo, Brazil, its entanglement with entrenched systems of inequality, and its contradiction in violence. James Holston argues that for two centuries Brazilians have practiced a type of ...

Cities and Citizenship (A Public Culture Book)

Duke University Press, 1999

Great Text
An excellent read for those not Political Science majors! I needed a political science course and this book was the the text. I learned more about various cultures and citizenship than I have in previous classes. Certainly, a very engaging book.

The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia

James Holston

University Of Chicago Press, 1989

More important than ever
Now that Neo-modernism has become the prevailing architectural fad, this book is more important than ever. It's important for up and coming young architects to get past form, learn about the negative effects of Modernist architecture on people and try to improve upon ...