Description: Explores how immigrant food practices generate new political imaginaries in the shifting contours of neoliberal capitalism.
Brief description: Charles T. Lee is Associate Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Working across the fields of political theory, cultural studies, cultural politics, and critical citizenship studies, his research explores innovative formations of political agency and cultural resistance within the global circuits of neoliberal capitalism. He is the author of Ingenious Citizenship: Recrafting Democracy for Social Change (Duke University Press, 2016), which received the 2017 Transdisciplinary Book Award from the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University.
Review Quotes: Bridging new materialism, ethnic studies and food studies, The Art of Elastic Politics combines political theory with ethnographic fieldwork in Asian restaurants to offer a powerful framework for understanding how power, resistance and social change operate in our interconnected, commodified world. Essential reading for how citizenship, belonging, and political change are being remade in twenty-first century America.--Cristina Beltrán, New York University