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Informationen zum Autor Davina Cooper is a Research Professor in Law and Political Theory, Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London. Read our interview with Davina here: https://www.routledge.com/go/featured-author-davina-cooper Nikita Dhawan is Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies at the University of Gießen, Germany. Janet Newman is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Open University, UK. Klappentext This book examines what value if any, the state has for the pursuit of progressive politics; and how it might need to be re-thought or reimagined to deliver transformative change. Zusammenfassung This book examines what value if any, the state has for the pursuit of progressive politics; and how it might need to be re-thought or reimagined to deliver transformative change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of contributors Introduction Davina Cooper PART I The politics of reimagination 1 The political work of reimagination Janet Newman 2 Reimagining the state: Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism Shirin M. Rai 3 State as pharmakon Nikita Dhawan PART II Performing re-readings 4 Why Africa's 'weak states' matter: A postcolonial critique of Euro-Western discourse on African statehood and sovereignty Anna Maria Krämer 5 The ethical state? María do Mar Castro Varela 6 Christian Israel Didi Herman 7 Using the master's tools: Rights and radical politics Ruth Kinna PART III Prefigurative practices 8 Anticipatory representation: Thinking art and museums as platforms of resourceful statecraft Chiara De Cesari 9 Conceptual prefiguration and municipal radicalism: Reimagining what it could mean to be a state Davina Cooper 10 Regulating with social justice in mind: An experiment in reimagining the state Morag McDermont and the Productive Margins Collective PART IV Reimagining otherwise 11 Harmful thoughts: Reimagining the coercive state? John Clarke 12 Border abolition and how to achieve it Nick Gill 13 Refusal first, then reimagination: Presenting the Burn in Flames Post-Patriarchal Archive in Circulation Sarah Browne and Jesse Jones Concluding reflections Janet Newman and Nikita Dhawan ...
