Feeling Like a State
Desire, Denial, and the Recasting of Authority
1st Edition
Published on 6. September 2019
272 pages
978-1-4780-0557-5 (ISBN)
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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.
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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.
Content
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
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
