Binding: Paperback
Description: This 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. Is 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 thinking and practice and to the conditions and labour that allow it to take place. But what can reimagining do; and what difficulties does it confront? This book will appeal to academics and research students concerned with critical and transformative approaches to state theory particularly in governance studies politics and political theory socio - legal studies international relations geography gender/sexuality cultural studies and anthropology.
Title: Reimagining The State Theoretical Challenges And Transformative Possibilities
Brand: Taylor & Francis Inc
Barcode: 9780815382195
Pages: 278 Pages, 6 Illustrations, Black And White
Publication Date: 8/13/2019
Series: Social Justice
Category: International Law