{"product_id":"ingenious-citizenship-9780822360377","title":"Ingenious Citizenship","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eIngenious Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Ingenious Agency: Democratic Agency and Its Disavowel  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Beginning\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Improvising Citizenship: Appropriating the Liberal Citizenship Script  37\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Episodes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Migrant Domestic Workers, Hidden Tactics, and Appropriating Political Citizenship  61\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Global Sex Workers, Calculated Abjection, and Appropriating Economic Citizenship  101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Trans People, Morphing Technologies, and Appropriating Gendered Citizenship  149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Suicide Bombers, Sacrificial Violence, and Appropriating Life Itself  191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III. (Un)Ending\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Politics without Politics: Democracy as Meant for Ingenious Appropriation  247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes  257\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited  269\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  287","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406092509527,"sku":"9780822360377","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822360377.jpg?v=1730494499","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ingenious-citizenship-9780822360377","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}