Seeing Like a Citizen: Fragmented Citizenship in Santiago de Chile
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- Abstract
- This thesis investigates how socioeconomically vulnerable individuals in Santiago de Chile conceptualize and exercise their citizenship in the wake of the 2019 estallido social. Using qualitative analysis of 31 in-depth, semi-structured interviews, the study develops a grounded theory of “fragmented citizenship.” Fragmentation refers to the asymmetrical and often contradictory experiences of citizenship at the individual level in contexts where the state is highly visible but uneven in its provision of services, programs, and goods. Beyond the convergence of these structural conditions of the state—wide visibility and irregular presence—the study found that participants’ multidimensional ideals of citizenship exacerbate fragmentation by setting high expectations of state provision. Fragmentation, in turn, shapes citizens’ engagement with the state, with respondents more likely to exercise their citizenship in areas where they perceive the state to be functioning effectively. Conversely, participants described strategic disengagement from the state and their citizenship where they perceived it to be less fully and reliably realized, further contributing to fragmentation. Through a nuanced and timely ground-level analysis, this thesis builds upon prior research on how citizenship plays out in practice in Latin America to provide valuable insight into the crisis of democracy in Chile and beyond, examining the implications of high citizen expectations coupled with uneven state performance for democratic citizenship.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Publication date | May 22, 2023; May 10, 2023 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Hein, Tara |
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| Advisor | Weinstein, Jeremy |
| Advisor | Magaloni, Beatriz |
Subjects
| Subject | Citizenship |
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| Subject | Democracy |
| Subject | Inequality |
| Subject | State |
| Subject | Latin America |
| Subject | Chile |
| Genre | Text |
| Genre | Thesis |
| Genre | Book |
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- Hein, T. (2023). Seeing Like a Citizen: Fragmented Citizenship in Santiago de Chile. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/kn740hw0937. https://doi.org/10.25740/kn740hw0937.
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Stanford University, Fisher Family Honors Program in Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. (CDDRL)
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