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Ingenious Citizenship Charles T. Lee

Ingenious Citizenship By Charles T. Lee

Ingenious Citizenship by Charles T. Lee


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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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Ingenious Citizenship: Recrafting Democracy for Social Change by Charles T. Lee

In Ingenious Citizenship Charles T. Lee centers the daily experiences and actions of migrant domestic workers, sex workers, transgender people, and suicide bombers in his rethinking of mainstream models of social change. Bridging cultural and political theory with analyses of film, literature, and ethnographic sources, Lee shows how these abject populations find ingenious and improvisational ways to disrupt and appropriate practices of liberal citizenship. When voting and other forms of civic engagement are unavailable or ineffective, the subversive acts of a domestic worker breaking a dish or a prostitute using the strategies and language of an entrepreneur challenge the accepted norms of political action. Taken to the extreme, a young Palestinian woman blowing herself up in a Jerusalem supermarket questions two of liberal citizenship's most cherished values: life and liberty. Using these examples to critically reinterpret political agency, citizenship practices, and social transformation, Lee reveals the limits of organizing change around a human rights discourse. Moreover, his subjects offer crucial lessons in how to turn even the worst conditions and the most unstable positions in society into footholds for transformative and democratic agency.

Ingenious Citizenship Reviews

[Lee] recrafts not only democratic notions of agency, but also what we mean when we say 'political theory' and think about its relationship to how we act in the world. -- Bogdan Popa * Contemporary Political Theory *
Lee draws one into the text through his provocative, outside the box exploration of social change. All in all, Lee has laid the groundwork for a new theory of everyday resistance as a potential force of radical social change. . . . . -- Michael T. Rogers * New Political Science *

About Charles T. Lee

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

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

CIN0822360373G
9780822360377
0822360373
Ingenious Citizenship: Recrafting Democracy for Social Change by Charles T. Lee
Used - Good
Paperback
Duke University Press
20160205
312
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