Citizenship in Latin America

Dagnino, Evelina

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“…This hyper-individualized conception of citizenship casts the individual into the roles of "consumer" and "producer" within markets and posits individual rationality as the site and basis for mediating one's citizenship (Dagnino, 2003). In this way, neoliberal economic policies have not only resulted in further marginalization; they have recast individual citizens into consumers, with rights to be earned in exchange for individual economic contribution to the market.…”

Section: Building Skills and Reserving Jobs: Disability And Employmenmentioning

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“…It has dismantled social security benefits and steered the discourse away from entitlements and rights to privileges that must be earned and acquired (Brown, 2005;Dagnino, 2003;Kabeer, 2005). In the case of the couple afflicted with polio at ME, state social security benefits are not utilized; instead, the couple relies on the generosity of the owner.…”

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“…This form of neoliberal governmentality has come to re-organize governance practices and citizenship (Brown, 2005;Rose, 1996). Individuals are conceived of as entrepreneurial actors in every sphere of life […] whose moral autonomy is measured by their capacity for "self-care" -the ability to provide for their own needs and service their own ambitions […] [T]he rationally calculating individual bears full responsibility for the consequences of his or her action no matter how severe the constraints on this action, e.g., lack of skills, education, and childcare in a period of high unemployment and limited welfare benefits (Brown, 2005, p. 42).This hyper-individualized conception of citizenship casts the individual into the roles of "consumer" and "producer" within markets and posits individual rationality as the site and basis for mediating one's citizenship (Dagnino, 2003). In this way, neoliberal economic policies have not only resulted in further marginalization; they have recast individual citizens into consumers, with rights to be earned in exchange for individual economic contribution to the market.…”

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Trapped Between Ableism and Neoliberalism: Critical Reflections on Disability and Employment in India

Kumar¹,

Sonpal

Hiranandani³

2012

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Despite affirmative actions such as reserved government employment, incentives and subsidies for employers, tax exemptions, skill development training etc., employment opportunities for persons with disabilities in India continue to be characterized by lower work-force participation, lower wages, lack of or limited career advancement, and discrimination in the workplace. While there has been some research on the presence of persons with disabilities in formal employment, such studies have lacked critical assessment of the underlying conceptions of (dis)ability and its interface with changes in the wider political and economic context. Using a case study approach, this article examines the outcomes of three employment initiatives in India. We contend that work and employment opportunities for persons with disabilities remain trapped in constructs of ableism; while neoliberalism has resulted in complex, often adverse outcomes that have received little attention. The article calls for developing a more critical research agenda and building capacities for wider contestation against ableism and neoliberalism.This article examines the outcomes of recent efforts to employ persons with disabilities in India. It attempts to unmask the underlying ableist assumptions of such efforts and to critique the complex interface between ableism and neoliberalism. We begin with a brief overview of the present employment status of persons with disabilities in India, followed by a brief account of recent efforts to increase their employment opportunities, which highlights the popularity and pervasiveness of such endeavors. The second section presents a contextual account of disability and employment in India around three key foci: the social construction of (dis)ableism; the role of religion and karma in Hinduism (the dominant religion in India); and neoliberalism, the prevailing development model. In the third section, we present three case studies in which interviews were conducted with employers and their employees with disabilities. The fourth section comprises a detailed discussion around conceptions of ableism and karma in the context of neoliberalism. We find that the interface between ableism and neoliberalism in India results in ever more complex forms of workplace marginalization for persons with disabilities. In the final section, we outline a more critical research agenda to fully unearth these influences. Building Skills And Reserving Jobs: Disability And Employment In IndiaEstimated to be nearly 15% of the world's population (WHO, 2011), counts of persons with disabilities in India are both ambiguous and much lower than global estimates. For example, the National Sample Survey (2003) reported a total of 18.5 million persons with disabilities in India, while the 2001 Census identified 21.9 million persons with disabilities (Registrar General of India, 2001), which constitutes a 20% difference in government estimates. The workforce participation rate of persons with disabilities is as low as 37.6% compared to 62.5...

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2012

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“…The problem also becomes quite manifest in discussions over citizenship in Latin America, for instance in the debate on whether paternalistic, clientelistic forms of political participation -i.e. clientship rather than citizenship -can also be deemed a valid form of democratic citizenship (Dagnino [2003] vs Taylor [2004]). The central issue here is to what extent clientelism, which does actually permit short-term social security arrangements, rules out the autonomy of individuals as citizens in the long run.…”

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The Transnational Social Question

Faist

2009

International Sociology

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abstract:In the 19th century, the 'social question' was the central subject of extremely volatile political conflicts between the ruling classes and the workingclass movements in Europe, North America and Australia. Are we now on the verge of a new social conflict, this time on a transnational scale? This analysis seeks to clarify main concepts and thus set the stage for future empirical research. The main argument is that various factors discourage one from expecting the establishment of sanctionable global social norms in the form of transnational social rights and social citizenship but that such a conclusion could be altered as a result of the mobilizing force of a politics of rights and obligations.

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“…La autonomía local debe, por tanto, aportar mayores niveles de gobernabilidad democrática, lo que da lugar a un nuevo espectro mucho más amplio del concepto de ciudadanía. Dicho concepto debe ir íntimamente relacionado con la adquisición de derechos legales que sean capaces de profundizar y expandir el propio concepto de democracia (Dagnino 2003).…”

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Sobre lo local y lo indígena: Hacia una nueva concepción de ciudadanía en América Latina

Navarro

2003

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Citizenship in Latin America

Cited by 150 publications

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Trapped Between Ableism and Neoliberalism: Critical Reflections on Disability and Employment in India

Trapped Between Ableism and Neoliberalism: Critical Reflections on Disability and Employment in India

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Sobre lo local y lo indígena: Hacia una nueva concepción de ciudadanía en América Latina

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