Title
Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology

Department
Dept of Anthropology


Faculty URL
http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/users/james-holston

Email
jholston@berkeley.edu

Phone
510 643-1688

Fax
510 643-8557


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Research Expertise and Interest
citizenship, Brazil, architecture, law, planning, the United States, cities, democracy, political and social anthropology, urban ethnography, the Americas

Research Description
<p>James Holston's current research examines the worldwide insurgence of democratic urban citizenships, their entanglement with entrenched systems of inequality, and their contradiction in violence and misrule of law under political democracy. He also studies "right to the city" movements and new institutions and practices of participatory urban planning and citizenship.</p>