Reimagining the State

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-cooperNikita 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.

• Acknowledgements List of contributors Introduction Davina CooperPART IThe politics of reimagination 1 The political work of reimagination Janet Newman2 Reimagining the state: Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism Shirin M. Rai3 State as pharmakon Nikita DhawanPART IIPerforming re-readings 4 Why Africa’s ‘weak states’ matter: A postcolonial critique of Euro-Western discourse on African statehood and sovereignty Anna Maria Krämer5 The ethical state? María do Mar Castro Varela6 Christian Israel Didi Herman7 Using the master’s tools: Rights and radical politics Ruth KinnaPART IIIPrefigurative practices 8 Anticipatory representation: Thinking art and museums as platforms of resourceful statecraft Chiara De Cesari9 Conceptual prefiguration and municipal radicalism: Reimagining what it could mean to be a state Davina Cooper10 Regulating with social justice in mind: An experiment in reimagining the state Morag McDermont and the Productive Margins CollectivePART IVReimagining otherwise 11 Harmful thoughts: Reimagining the coercive state? John Clarke12 Border abolition and how to achieve it Nick Gill13 Refusal first, then reimagination: Presenting the Burn in Flames Post-Patriarchal Archive in Circulation Sarah Browne and Jesse JonesConcluding reflections Janet Newman and Nikita Dhawan