Becoming A Plebeian Leader Moral Careers Life-Stories And Statecraft In Guayaquil Ecuador (1960-2022)

In Becoming a Plebeian Leader José Antonio Villarreal Velásquez examines situations where ordinary women and men become plebeian leaders in urban-popular neighborhoods. Combining oral history archival research and ethnography the book examines plebeian leaders’ moral careers through and within the meaningful and fluctuating connections among urban-popular neighborhoods in the city and the nation-state from 1960 to the present time. Specifically Villarreal Velásquez reconstructs compares and explains the historical sociological and political formation of two plebeian leaders’ moral career paths in Guayaquil (Ecuador); the skills feelings and knowledge they acquired to perform their tasks and operate within societal hegemonic frameworks and large-scale structural transformations. Becoming a Plebeian Leader will be of interest to researchers studying urban popular politics in the Global South. |Becoming a Plebeian Leader Moral Careers Life-Stories and Statecraft in Guayaquil Ecuador (1960-2022)