Charles T Lee

Ingenious Citizenship

Recrafting Democracy for Social Change

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780822360216
• ISBN-10: 0822360217
• Artikelnr.: 42576987

Autorenporträt

Charles T. Lee

Inhaltsangabe

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