Ingenious citizenship
Subtitle: recrafting democracy for social change
By: Charles T. Lee
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780822360216; 9780822360377
Subjects: Political culture; Citizen participation; Democracy; Social Marginality; Political participation; Social change
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Ingenious agency : democratic agency and its disavowal; title: Improvising citizenship : appropriating the liberal citizenship script; title: Migrant domestic workers, hidden tactics, and appropriating political citizenship; title: Global sex workers, calculated abjection, and appropriating economic citizenship; title: Trans people, morphing technologies, and appropriating gendered citizenship; title: Suicide bombers, sacrificial violence, and appropriating life itself; title: Conclusion: Politics without politics : democracy as meant for ingenious appropriation.