Ingenious Citizenship

"Illuminating social change emanating from the most compromised, powerless, and abject members of liberal capitalist societies, Charles T. Lee discovers enactments of ingenious citizenship even in a suicide bomber's violence. Lee's readers will find themselves surprised by the degree to which democratic and social theory underestimates the promise of change issuing from actions that appear to be undertaken in complicity with liberal capitalism. Contaminated and compromised as we all are in systems of abjection, Lee offers hope for ingenious citizens everywhere."   - Barbara Cruikshank, author of The Will to Empower: Democratic Citizens and Other Subjects

"A refreshing take on forms of liberal complicity. With clarity, Charles T. Lee outlines productive encounters with liberal scripts, ones that ultimately we cannot escape and thus must transform. Of particular import is the recomposition of rights platforms as intrinsic to any politics that seeks to go beyond them. Timely and smart. A convincing account."  - Jasbir K. Puar, author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times

"[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

"A useful work on ingenious citizenship that captures the efforts of the abjected to gain relevance in a neoliberal society." - Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Atlantis

"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