Charles T Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3990507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles T Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles T |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE C T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2195-9566 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ethnic Restaurants, Immigrant Lives, and Elastic Citizenship in Neoliberal Times
This article traces the emergence of an elastic political life emanating from ethnic restaurants vis--vis the sinister elasticity of neoliberalism. Upon establishing ethnic food as a paradigmatic case of elastic food that cannot fully replicate the authenticity of the original but still evokes a genuine feeling of being at home among immigrants, it further illustrates how ethnic restaurants provide an informal venue for immigrants to acquire incl…
Improvising “Nonexistent Rights”
Building on Henri Lefebvre’s radical concept of “right to the city,” contemporary literatures on urban citizenship critically shift the locus of citizenship from its juridical-political foundation in the sovereign state to the spatial politics of the urban inhabitants. However, while the political discourse of right to the city presents a vital vision for urban democracy in the shadow of neoliberal restructuring, its exclusive focus on democratic…
Recalibrating oppositional politics
Commentary on Fred Lee’s “Contours of Asian American Political Theory
Fred Lee’s essay proceeds with an important premise, seeking to carve out an emergent contour of Asian American political theory (AAPT) that has been absent in the political science subfield of pol
Response to Deva Woodly’s review of Ingenious Citizenship
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Ingenious Citizenship
In Ingenious Citizenship Charles T. Lee centers the daily experiences and actions of migrant domestic workers, sex workers, transgender people, and suicide bombers in his rethinking of mainstream models of social change. Bridging cultural and political theory with analyses of film, literature, and ethnographic sources, Lee shows how these abject populations find ingenious and improvisational ways to disrupt and appropriate practices of liberal ci…
Bare Life, Interstices, and the Third Space of Citizenship
The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben s enigmatic treatise on the intricacy of sovereign power and the state of exception in his Homo Sacer has received wide critical attention from and social theorists in the past decade. In gesturing to the condition of the modern concentration as a paradigmatic case of what he calls - human subjects reduced to a naked depoliticized state without official status and juridical rights - Agamben identifies a sim…
Suicide bombing as acts of deathly citizenship? A critical double-layered inquiry
While prevailing terrorism research often asks what we can do to eliminate the threat of suicide terrorism, this article switches the question by asking: what problems might the agency manifested in suicide bombing (even if unlawful and irresponsible) solve for us? In critiquing the sociological positivist approach that seeks to uncover the causes of suicide terrorism – and in the process reveals a hidden ideology that sustains the binary of ‘dem…
Undocumented Workers' Subversive Citizenship Acts
What does it mean to be “citizens”? Formally speaking, citizenship designates the legal status of state membership, with a stated nationality and corresponding rights and duties. Beyond this basic
Tactical Citizenship
Tactical Citizenship: Domestic Workers, the Remainders of Home, and Undocumented Citizen Participation in the Third Space of Mimicry Charles T. Lee (bio) The sociologist Saskia Sassen has written of the global cities as the concentrated command points and central strategic sites for global capitalist market production. In the midst of the popular phantasmic aspiration for global cities, Sassen points to the grim development of economic polarizati…
Bare Life, Interstices, and the Third Space of Citizenship
The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben s enigmatic treatise on the intricacy of sovereign power and the state of exception in his Homo Sacer has received wide critical attention from and social theorists in the past decade. In gesturing to the condition of the modern concentration as a paradigmatic case of what he calls - human subjects reduced to a naked depoliticized state without official status and juridical rights - Agamben identifies a sim…
Improvising “Nonexistent Rights”
Building on Henri Lefebvre’s radical concept of “right to the city,” contemporary literatures on urban citizenship critically shift the locus of citizenship from its juridical-political foundation in the sovereign state to the spatial politics of the urban inhabitants. However, while the political discourse of right to the city presents a vital vision for urban democracy in the shadow of neoliberal restructuring, its exclusive focus on democratic…
Undocumented Workers' Subversive Citizenship Acts
What does it mean to be “citizens”? Formally speaking, citizenship designates the legal status of state membership, with a stated nationality and corresponding rights and duties. Beyond this basic
Tactical Citizenship
Tactical Citizenship: Domestic Workers, the Remainders of Home, and Undocumented Citizen Participation in the Third Space of Mimicry Charles T. Lee (bio) The sociologist Saskia Sassen has written of the global cities as the concentrated command points and central strategic sites for global capitalist market production. In the midst of the popular phantasmic aspiration for global cities, Sassen points to the grim development of economic polarizati…
Undocumented Workers' Subversive Citizenship Acts
What does it mean to be “citizens”? Formally speaking, citizenship designates the legal status of state membership, with a stated nationality and corresponding rights and duties. Beyond this basic
Suicide bombing as acts of deathly citizenship? A critical double-layered inquiry
While prevailing terrorism research often asks what we can do to eliminate the threat of suicide terrorism, this article switches the question by asking: what problems might the agency manifested in suicide bombing (even if unlawful and irresponsible) solve for us? In critiquing the sociological positivist approach that seeks to uncover the causes of suicide terrorism – and in the process reveals a hidden ideology that sustains the binary of ‘dem…
Bare Life, Interstices, and the Third Space of Citizenship
The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben s enigmatic treatise on the intricacy of sovereign power and the state of exception in his Homo Sacer has received wide critical attention from and social theorists in the past decade. In gesturing to the condition of the modern concentration as a paradigmatic case of what he calls - human subjects reduced to a naked depoliticized state without official status and juridical rights - Agamben identifies a sim…
Ingenious Citizenship
In Ingenious Citizenship Charles T. Lee centers the daily experiences and actions of migrant domestic workers, sex workers, transgender people, and suicide bombers in his rethinking of mainstream models of social change. Bridging cultural and political theory with analyses of film, literature, and ethnographic sources, Lee shows how these abject populations find ingenious and improvisational ways to disrupt and appropriate practices of liberal ci…
Response to Deva Woodly’s review of Ingenious Citizenship
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Commentary on Fred Lee’s “Contours of Asian American Political Theory
Fred Lee’s essay proceeds with an important premise, seeking to carve out an emergent contour of Asian American political theory (AAPT) that has been absent in the political science subfield of pol
Improvising “Nonexistent Rights”
Building on Henri Lefebvre’s radical concept of “right to the city,” contemporary literatures on urban citizenship critically shift the locus of citizenship from its juridical-political foundation in the sovereign state to the spatial politics of the urban inhabitants. However, while the political discourse of right to the city presents a vital vision for urban democracy in the shadow of neoliberal restructuring, its exclusive focus on democratic…
Recalibrating oppositional politics
Ethnic Restaurants, Immigrant Lives, and Elastic Citizenship in Neoliberal Times
This article traces the emergence of an elastic political life emanating from ethnic restaurants vis--vis the sinister elasticity of neoliberalism. Upon establishing ethnic food as a paradigmatic case of elastic food that cannot fully replicate the authenticity of the original but still evokes a genuine feeling of being at home among immigrants, it further illustrates how ethnic restaurants provide an informal venue for immigrants to acquire incl…
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