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xiii, 298 pages ; 24 cm |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and index |
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Improvising 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 |
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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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