Reimagining the State : Theoretical Challenges and Transformative Possibilities /: Theoretical Challenges and Transformative Possibilities. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Davina Cooper, Nikita Dhawan, Janet Newman.
• Editors: Cooper, Davina; Dhawan, Nikita; Newman, Janet
• 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (278 pages), (6 illustrations)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351209090; 1351209094
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.