Ingenious Citizenship

Klappentext Charles T. Lee is Assistant Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Zusammenfassung 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.

Autorentext

Charles T. Lee

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt

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