Jamesholston (2025)

Holston’s scholarship focuses on the as a strategic site for the emergence and erosion of citizenship. He is best known for two influential concepts:

Holston has authored and edited several foundational texts in urban anthropology: James Holston's Insurgent Citizenship jamesholston

: Holston provided a seminal critique of Brasília , Brazil's planned capital. He analyzed how the city’s modernist design attempted to social-engineer a new society but instead resulted in unintended social exclusions and "disjunctions". Key Publications Holston’s scholarship focuses on the as a strategic