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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
