Aihwa Ong (1 Jan 1950 Jahr – 12 St. 10 Min, 9 Nov 2024 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

ABOUT
- Malaysian, PhD at Columbia and teaches at UC Berkeley
- conducted extensive fieldwork across Southeast Asia and among Asian diasporic communities
- focuses on how flexible citizenship and global markets impact social identities and political agency in the Global South

MAJOR WORKS
- Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality (1999)
- Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (2006)

CONTRIBUTIONS
- concepts of "flexible citizenship" and "transnational identity"
- concepts of "Neoliberalism as Exception" and "Graduated Sovereignty"

CRITIQUES
- her focus on flexible citizenship may limit the applicability of her concepts to other groups who do not have the same economic mobility or access to multiple citizenships
- some of her concepts have been critiqued as being theoretically abstract

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