{"product_id":"reimagining-the-state-9780815382195","title":"Reimagining the State","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines what value, if any, the state has for the pursuit of progressive politics; and how it might need to be reimagined and remade to deliver transformative change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs it possible to reimagine the state in ways that open up projects of political transformation? This interdisciplinary collection provides alternative perspectives to the antistatism' of much critical writing and contemporary political movement activism. Contributors explore ways of reimagining the state that attend critically to the capitalist, neoliberal, gendered and racist conditions of contemporary polities, yet seek to hold onto the state in the process. Drawing on postcolonial, poststructuralist, feminist, queer, Marxist and anarchist thinking, they consider how states might be reread and reclaimed for radical politics. At the heart of this book is state plasticity  the capacity of the state conceptually and materially to take different forms. This plasticity is central to transformational thin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of contributors \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavina Cooper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe politics of reimagination \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 The political work of reimagination \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanet Newman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Reimagining the state: Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShirin M. Rai\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 State as \u003ci\u003epharmakon \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNikita Dhawan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerforming re-readings \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Why Africa’s ‘weak states’ matter: A postcolonial critique of Euro-Western discourse on African statehood and sovereignty \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna Maria Krämer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 The ethical state? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaría do Mar Castro Varela\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Christian Israel \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDidi Herman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Using the master’s tools: Rights and radical politics \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth Kinna\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART III\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrefigurative practices \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Anticipatory representation: Thinking art and museums as platforms of resourceful statecraft \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChiara De Cesari\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Conceptual prefiguration and municipal radicalism: Reimagining what it could mean to be a state \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavina Cooper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Regulating with social justice in mind: An experiment in reimagining the state \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorag McDermont and the Productive Margins Collective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART IV\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReimagining otherwise \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Harmful thoughts: Reimagining the coercive state? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Clarke\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 Border abolition and how to achieve it \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNick Gill\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 Refusal first, then reimagination: Presenting the Burn in Flames Post-Patriarchal Archive in Circulation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Browne and Jesse Jones\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcluding reflections \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanet Newman and Nikita Dhawan\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084091748695,"sku":"9780815382195","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780815382195.jpg?v=1762205031","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reimagining-the-state-9780815382195","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}