Through an ethnographic study of a document in urban Brazil—the electricity bill—this article argues for developing a relational and materialist approach to citizenship. It analyzes the uses and meaning of this document for favela residents, the state, and the private electricity provider, within projects to regularize illegal connections and the so‐called “pacification” program, a state security policy to re‐establish state territorial control. It investigates the tensions between the market‐oriented processes of electricity regularization and citizenship by examining the implications of this contractual change on the way state and non‐state actors and residents frame rights and responsibilities linked to membership in society. Analysis of this document reveals how citizenship framing takes specific shape in line with both state reforms and urban processes of differentiation. It shows that the bill both materializes normative ideas of “deserving citizenship” as a territorial, moral, and material process, and realizes the potential for political contestation. The article thus expands on analysis of documents as material mediators of social and political relations and proposes an understanding of citizenship as a negotiated process involving people, state, and non‐state actors and objects.

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实质性政治：实用文件，索偿和在里约热内卢建设“当之无愧的公民”

通过对巴西市区的一份文件的人种学研究（电费单），本文认为应建立一种关系主义和唯物主义的公民权方法。它分析了该文件在贫民窟居民，国家和私人电力供应商中的用途和含义，这些项目旨在规范非法连接以及所谓的“和平化”计划（一项旨在重新建立国家领土控制权的国家安全政策）。它通过研究这种契约性变化对国家和非国家行为者与居民构建与社会成员资格相关的权利和责任的方式的影响，研究了以电力为导向的市场化过程与市场化之间的紧张关系。对这份文件的分析揭示了公民权框架如何根据国家改革和城市分化过程而采取特定的形式。它表明，该法案既体现了作为领土，道德和物质过程的“应得公民身份”的规范思想，又实现了政治竞争的潜力。因此，本文扩展了对作为社会和政治关系的重要调解者的文件的分析，并提出了对公民身份的理解，这是一个涉及人，国家和非国家行为者与物体的谈判过程。