Articles

2022. What makes democratic citizenship democratic? Citizenship Studies 26(4-5): 491-504. [open access version: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1f30q3jq

2021   James Holston, Harold Suazo-Laguna, Eva Harris, and Josefina Coloma. DengueChat: a social and software platform for community-based arbovirus vector control.  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 105(6): 1521-1535. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.20-0808. PMID: 34634779; PMCID: PMC8641316. [open access version: escholarship.org/uc/item/8gd7q9dz]

2020 Cláudia Alessandra Tessari, Gabriela de Brelaz, Izabel Meister, James Holston, Pedro Fiori Arantes.  Democracia e participação na Unifesp: a universidade como laboratório de inovações democráticas. In Unifesp, 25 Anos: Histórias e Reflexões, 239-266. Ana Nemi Dante Gallian, and Maria Angélica Pedra Minhoto, editors. São Paulo: Editora Unifesp.

2020 Cristhian Parra, Luca Cernuzzi, Rodrigo Rojas, Delsy Denis, Sofia Rivas, Julio Paciello, Josefina Coloma, and James Holston.  Synergies between technology, participation and citizen science in a community-based dengue prevention program. American Behavioral Scientist: 1-21. [open access published version: doi.org/10.1177/0002764220952113]

2020    The problem of the present in anthropology and urban planning. In Life Among Planners: Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City, 235-241.  Jennifer Mack and Michael Herzfeld, editors. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. [open access version:  https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sc0b61m] 

2019    Metropolitan rebellions and the politics of commoning the city.  Anthropology Theory 19(1): 120-142.
[open access version:  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3053x8bq]

2018    Art practice and citizenship at Park Lek, Sundbyberg. In Public Enquiries: Park Lek and the Scandinavian Social Turn, 99-110.  Mick Wilson, Helena Selder, and Giorgiana Zachia, editors. London: Black Dog Press.
[open access version: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4771r0p4]

2017    Cristhian Parra, Christelle Rohaut, Marianne Maeckelbergh, Valérie Issarny, James Holston. Expanding the design space of ICT for participatory budgeting.  In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T ’17), 213-221. ACM Digital Library. [open access published version:  doi.org/10.1145/3083671.3083702]

2016    Ochigame, Rodrigo and James Holston. Filtering dissent: social media and land struggles in Brazil. New Left Review 99:  85-108. [open access published version: FilteringDissent]

2015    Teresa Caldeira and James Holston. Participatory urban planning in Brazil.  Urban Studies 52(11): 2001-2017. 
[open access version: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1hc4v5k8]

2014    Come to the street: urban protest, Brazil 2013.  Anthropological Quarterly 87(3): 889-902.
[open access version:  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5nx8v4b8]

2013    Housing crises, right to the city, and citizenship. In The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modernist City, 255-269.  Edward Murphy and Najib B. Hourani, editors.  Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.  
[open access version:   https://escholarship.org/uc/item/66d759vb]

2011    Contesting privilege with right: the transformation of differentiated citizenship in Brazil. Citizenship Studies 15(3-4): 335-352. 
[open access version:  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1rq1j53q]

2011    Generative copies: modernist architecture and urbanism in Brazil. Joelho (Revista de Cultura Arquitectónica) 2(Abril): 23-37.
[open access version: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8qr7q76b]

2011     The civility of inegalitarian citizenships.  In The Fundamentalist City?: Religiosity and Remaking of Urban Space, 51-71.  Nezar AlSayyad and Mejgan Massoumi, editors. London: Routledge. [open access version:  https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xt7n58k]

2009    Insurgent citizenship in an era of global urban peripheries. Cities and Society 21(2): 253-277
[open access version:  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6977c8xd]

2009    Dangerous spaces of citizenship: gang talk, rights talk, and rule of law in Brazil. Planning Theory 8(1): 12-31. 
[open access version:  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3814j2sd]

2009    Libertem o espírito de Brasília. VEJA 42 (2138): 148-155 (Edição Especial, Brasília 50 Anos).
[open access version: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7jp300n3]

2007    Citizenship in disjunctive democracies. In Citizenship in Latin America, 75-94. Joseph S. Tulchin and Meg Ruthenburg, editors. Boulder: Lynne Reinner. [open access version:  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2ft3c5b4]

2006    Spatial design and American democracy.  City and Society 18(1):35-40.
[open access version:  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/18r0652d]

2005    Teresa Caldeira and James Holston. State and urban space in Brazil: from modernist planning to democratic interventions. In Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems, 393-416. Aihwa Ong and Stephen J. Collier, editors. London: Blackwell.
[open access version: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1hw5272h

2001    Urban citizenship and globalization.  In Global City-Regions, 325-348. Allen J. Scott, editor. New York: Oxford University Press.
[open access version:  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2sv4f42b]

2001    The spirit of Brasília: modernity as experiment and risk. In Brazil Body and Soul, 540-557. Edward J. Sullivan, editor.  New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. [open access version:  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/19f6030g]

1999    Teresa P. R. Caldeira and James Holston. Democracy and violence in Brazil. Comparative Studies in Society and History 41(4): 691-729. [open access version: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0kg4x8w8]

1999    Alternative modernities: statecraft and religious imagination in the Valley of the Dawn. American Ethnologist 26(3): 605-631.
[open access version:  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/73p8240s]

1998    James Holston and Teresa P. R. Caldeira. Democracy, law, and violence: disjunctions of Brazilian citizenship. In Fault Lines of Democracy in Post-Transition Latin America, 263-296. Felipe Agüero and Jeffrey Stark, editors. Miami: University of Miami North-South Center Press. [open access version: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6m87t0pb]

1996    James Holston and Arjun Appadurai. Cities and citizenship. Public Culture 8(2): 187-204.
[open access version:  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0769d7zz]

1995    Spaces of insurgent citizenship. Planning Theory 13: 35-51.
[open access version:  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hw3n3kh]

1993    Legalizando o ilegal:  propriedade e usurpação no Brasil.” Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais. 21(ano 8): 68-89.
[open access version:  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5sq147rn]

1991    The misrule of law:  land and usurpation in Brazil. Comparative Studies in Society and History 33(4): 695-725.
[open access version:  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8vh411gs]

1991    Autoconstruction in working-class Brazil. Cultural Anthropology 6(4): 447-465.
[open access version:  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/716990r5]