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 In turn, liberal public bodies have withdrawn contracts, subsidies, and career progression from withholding conservative Christians.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.
"“With its checkered history of unmatched power, the state has been both a vehicle of oppression as well as justice. Feeling Like A State imagines transformative progressive ways the state can be, inspiring movement toward a more responsible, ecologically collaborative world. A beautifully written, brilliant contribution beyond utopian fictions that explores practical real-life experiments in governing as a way of rethinking government and states. This book must be read if we are to move past the current crises in any durable and just manner.”" - The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life
"“Feeling Like a State makes a strong argument for why states don’t function the way that we imagine them to.... [It is] rich in details, not just about what is wrong with the world but also about what can be done."" - Political Theory
"“At a time when neoliberal states are relocating governmental responsibilities onto individuals or to their chums in private companies to make profits, [Feeling Like a State] asks us to look forwards, to a concept of the state, even if provisional, which is relational, caring, and feeling and has social justice at its heart.”" - Review of Politics
"“In Feeling Like a State, Cooper forges a strong case for the continuing conceptual (and even material) value of the state.... Although Cooper stops short of offering an alternative vision of public governance, her optimistic account of state potentiality for a progressive politics is one of the most cogent of those available.”" - Representation
"“Feeling Like a State asks us to exercise our own capacity for imagination, challenging us to envision a state that not only acts but is otherwise.”" - Journal of Contemporary Religion
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"“With its checkered history of unmatched power, the state has been both a vehicle of oppression as well as justice. Feeling Like A State imagines transformative progressive ways the state can be, inspiring movement toward a more responsible, ecologically collaborative world. A beautifully written, brilliant contribution beyond utopian fictions that explores practical real-life experiments in governing as a way of rethinking government and states. This book must be read if we are to move past the current crises in any durable and just manner.”" - The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life
"“Feeling Like a State makes a strong argument for why states don’t function the way that we imagine them to.... [It is] rich in details, not just about what is wrong with the world but also about what can be done."" - Political Theory
"“At a time when neoliberal states are relocating governmental responsibilities onto individuals or to their chums in private companies to make profits, [Feeling Like a State] asks us to look forwards, to a concept of the state, even if provisional, which is relational, caring, and feeling and has social justice at its heart.”" - Review of Politics
"“In Feeling Like a State, Cooper forges a strong case for the continuing conceptual (and even material) value of the state.... Although Cooper stops short of offering an alternative vision of public governance, her optimistic account of state potentiality for a progressive politics is one of the most cogent of those available.”" - Representation
"“Feeling Like a State asks us to exercise our own capacity for imagination, challenging us to envision a state that not only acts but is otherwise.”" - Journal of Contemporary Religion
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