Aihwa Ong (1 ene 1950 año – 12 h 10 m, 9 nov 2024 año)
Descripción:
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
Añadido al timeline:
fecha:
1 ene 1950 año
12 h 10 m, 9 nov 2024 año
~ 74 years