This book is part of a tradition of scholarship that views understanding citizenship as necessary for understanding the nature of democracy. Although based on fieldwork conducted more than 15 years ago, the book sheds considerable light on the state of Brazilian democracy today. Situated in the heyday of Porto Alegre’s international reputation as “a vibrant center of leftist political experimentation and civic participation” (1), the euphoria of Lula’s electoral victory, and the idealism of the World Social Forum, the book offers a nuanced multilevel perspective and careful analysis, identifying the underlying tensions and contradictions that would gradually undermine an ambitious political project and foreshadowing the threats they would subsequently pose for Brazilian democracy. In doing so, Junge’s book makes important contributions to literatures on citizenship and democracy—participatory democracy in particular—challenging much of the conventional wisdom of this field of scholarship through the sobering perspectives of ordinary citizens.

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巴西 - 愤世嫉俗的公民：巴西阿雷格里港的性别、地区主义和政治主观性。本杰明·荣格着。阿尔伯克基：新墨西哥大学出版社，2018 年。Pp。286. 65.00 美元的布料。

这本书是学术传统的一部分，将理解公民身份视为理解民主本质的必要条件。尽管基于 15 多年前进行的实地调查，这本书对当今巴西的民主状况有相当大的了解。这本书位于阿雷格里港作为“充满活力的左派政治实验和公民参与中心”（1）、卢拉选举胜利的欣喜若狂以及世界社会论坛的理想主义的国际声誉的鼎盛时期，提供了细致入微的多层次视角和仔细分析，确定将逐渐破坏雄心勃勃的政治计划的潜在紧张和矛盾，并预示它们随后将对巴西民主构成威胁。在这样做，