18 Noncitizenism Figure 2.1 Home (Asti Maria, Lensational, 2013). liberal position should be able to take on board criticisms from previously overlooked perspectives and use new voices to create more accurate and more just liberal presentations of the world. Indeed, in doing this, liberalism could also provide a means by which to address some contemporary injustices which put weighty burdens of the inadequately conceived State and State system on some individuals while benefiting others. One aspect of this will be the recognition of noncitizenship. This locatedness of thinking is made jarringly apparent in Asti Maria’s photograph, ‘Home’, part of the series ‘Transit in Doubt’. It is a fuzzy photograph of a rough-sleeper in Hong Kong. At the time when she took the photograph, the photographer was herself an Indonesian domestic worker in the city. The intention behind the series was to enable the viewer to explore the world through the eyes of a domestic worker, a perspective that is often hidden. However, in

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