Becoming a Plebeian Leader

<p>In <i>Becoming a Plebeian Leader</i> José Antonio Villarreal Velásquez examines situations where ordinary women and men become plebeian leaders in urban-popular neighborhoods.</p><p>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.</p><p><i>Becoming a Plebeian Leader</i> will be of interest to researchers studying urban popular politics in the Global South.</p>