Feeling Like a State - Davina Cooper

Feeling Like a State

Desire, Denial, and the Recasting of Authority

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Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0474-5 (ISBN)
27,40 inkl. MwSt
Davina Cooper explores the unexpected contribution a legal drama of withdrawal—as exemplified by some conservative Christians who deny people inclusion, goods, and services to LGBTQ individuals—might make to conceptualizing a more socially just, participative state.
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 In turn, liberal public bodies have withdrawn contracts, subsidies, and career progression from withholding conservative Christians.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
Reihe/Serie Global and Insurgent Legalities
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 386 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-4780-0474-6 / 1478004746
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-0474-5 / 9781478004745
Zustand Neuware
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