Lee Charles T. Lee

Ingenious Citizenship (eBook, PDF)

Recrafting Democracy for Social Change

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374831
• Artikelnr.: 54784334

Autorenporträt

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

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