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Ingenious Citizenship: Recrafting Democracy for Social Change
Charles T. Lee
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Description for Ingenious Citizenship: Recrafting Democracy for Social Change
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 311 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 586.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
311
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822360216
SKU
V9780822360216
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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.
Reviews for Ingenious Citizenship: Recrafting Democracy for Social Change
"[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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more