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Ingenious Citizenship

Autor Charles T Lee
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 feb 2016
In Ingenious Citizenship Charles T. Lee centers the daily experiences of migrant domestic workers, sex workers, transgender people, and suicide bombers in his rethinking of models of social change to show how ingenious and subversive acts disrupt traditional practices of liberal citizenship in order to exercise political agency.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822360216
ISBN-10: 0822360217
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 157 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

Cuprins

Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction. Ingenious Agency: Democratic Agency and Its Disavowel  1

Part I. Beginning

1. Improvising Citizenship: Appropriating the Liberal Citizenship Script  37

Part II. Episodes

2. Migrant Domestic Workers, Hidden Tactics, and Appropriating Political Citizenship  61

3. Global Sex Workers, Calculated Abjection, and Appropriating Economic Citizenship  101

4. Trans People, Morphing Technologies, and Appropriating Gendered Citizenship  149

5. Suicide Bombers, Sacrificial Violence, and Appropriating Life Itself  191

Part III. (Un)Ending

Conclusion. Politics without Politics: Democracy as Meant for Ingenious Appropriation  247

Notes  257

Works Cited  269

Index  287