| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) |
| Contents |
Ingenious citizenship : appropriating the liberal citizenship script -- Migrant domestic workers, hidden tactics, and appropriating political citizenship -- Global sex workers, calculated abjection, and appropriating economic citizenship -- Trans people, morphing technologies, and appropriating gendered citizenship -- Suicide bombers, sacrificial violence, and appropriating life itself -- Conclusion: Politics without politics : democracy as meant for ingenious appropriation |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Democracy -- United States -- Citizen participation
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Marginality, Social -- Political aspects -- United States
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Social change -- United States
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Political participation -- United States
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Political culture -- United States
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
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Democracy -- Citizen participation
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Marginality, Social -- Political aspects
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Political culture
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Political participation
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Social change
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822374831 |
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0822374838 |
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