Lee Ingenious Citizenship

Recrafting Democracy for Social Change
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7483-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, Charles T.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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