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Feeling Like a State: Desire, Denial, and the Recasting of Authority
Duke University Press, 2019
Paper: 978-1-4780-0474-5 | eISBN: 978-1-4780-0557-5 | Cloth: 978-1-4780-0413-4 Library of Congress Classification JC11.C65 2019
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 In turn, liberal public bodies have withdrawn contracts, subsidies, and career progression from withholding conservative Christians.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. See other books on: Authority | Conservatism | Desire | Political participation | State, The See other titles from Duke University Press |
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Feeling Like a State: Desire, Denial, and the Recasting of Authority
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
Duke University Press, 2019
Paper: 978-1-4780-0474-5
eISBN: 978-1-4780-0557-5
Cloth: 978-1-4780-0413-4
Paper: 978-1-4780-0474-5
eISBN: 978-1-4780-0557-5
Cloth: 978-1-4780-0413-4
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 In turn, liberal public bodies have withdrawn contracts, subsidies, and career progression from withholding conservative Christians.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.
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