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

"[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 groundwork for a new theory of everyday resistance as a potential force of radical social change. . . . ." - Michael T. Rogers (New Political Science)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Ingenious Agency: Democratic Agency and Its Disavowel  1Part I. Beginning1. Improvising Citizenship: Appropriating the Liberal Citizenship Script  37Part II. Episodes2. Migrant Domestic Workers, Hidden Tactics, and Appropriating Political Citizenship  613. Global Sex Workers, Calculated Abjection, and Appropriating Economic Citizenship  1014. Trans People, Morphing Technologies, and Appropriating Gendered Citizenship  1495. Suicide Bombers, Sacrificial Violence, and Appropriating Life Itself  191Part III. (Un)EndingConclusion. Politics without Politics: Democracy as Meant for Ingenious Appropriation  247Notes  257Works Cited  269Index  287

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

"[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 groundwork for a new theory of everyday resistance as a potential force of radical social change. . . . ." - Michael T. Rogers (New Political Science)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Ingenious Agency: Democratic Agency and Its Disavowel  1Part I. Beginning1. Improvising Citizenship: Appropriating the Liberal Citizenship Script  37Part II. Episodes2. Migrant Domestic Workers, Hidden Tactics, and Appropriating Political Citizenship  613. Global Sex Workers, Calculated Abjection, and Appropriating Economic Citizenship  1014. Trans People, Morphing Technologies, and Appropriating Gendered Citizenship  1495. Suicide Bombers, Sacrificial Violence, and Appropriating Life Itself  191Part III. (Un)EndingConclusion. Politics without Politics: Democracy as Meant for Ingenious Appropriation  247Notes  257Works Cited  269Index  287

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

"[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 groundwork for a new theory of everyday resistance as a potential force of radical social change. . . . ." - Michael T. Rogers (New Political Science)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Ingenious Agency: Democratic Agency and Its Disavowel  1Part I. Beginning1. Improvising Citizenship: Appropriating the Liberal Citizenship Script  37Part II. Episodes2. Migrant Domestic Workers, Hidden Tactics, and Appropriating Political Citizenship  613. Global Sex Workers, Calculated Abjection, and Appropriating Economic Citizenship  1014. Trans People, Morphing Technologies, and Appropriating Gendered Citizenship  1495. Suicide Bombers, Sacrificial Violence, and Appropriating Life Itself  191Part III. (Un)EndingConclusion. Politics without Politics: Democracy as Meant for Ingenious Appropriation  247Notes  257Works Cited  269Index  287