Feeling Like a State

Desire, Denial, and the Recasting of Authority

Davina Cooper (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478004134 (ISBN)

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A transformative progressive politics requires the state's reimagining. But how should the state be reimagined, and what can invigorate this process? In Feeling Like a State, Davina Cooper explores the unexpected contribution a legal drama of withdrawal might make to conceptualizing a more socially just, participative state. In recent years, as gay rights have expanded, some conservative Christians-from charities to guesthouse owners and county clerks-have denied people inclusion, goods, and services because of their sexuality. In turn, liberal public bodies have withdrawn contracts, subsidies, and career progression from withholding conservative Christians. Cooper takes up the discourses and practices expressed in this legal conflict to animate and support an account of the state as heterogeneous, plural, and erotic. Arguing for the urgent need to put new imaginative forms into practice, Cooper examines how dissident and experimental institutional thinking materialize as people assert a democratic readiness to recraft the state.

Davina Cooper is Research Professor in Law and Political Theory at King's College London and the author of several books, most recently Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces, also published by Duke University Press.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Reimagining the State 1
1. Legal Dramas of Refusal 28
2. Retrieving Dissident State Parts 52
3. Pluralizing a Concept 75
4. State Play and Possessive Beliefs 105
5. The Erotic Life of States 130
6. Feeling Like a Different Kind of State 153
Notes 177
References 225
Index 253

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2019
Reihe/Serie	Global and Insurgent Legalities
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9781478004134 / 9781478004134
Zustand	Neuware