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Reimagining the State:Theoretical Challenges and Transformative Possibilities

The work of reimagining What is it to be a state?What states offer progressive politics?Acknowledgements References I The politics of reimagination The political work of reimagination Introduction Proposition 1: Imagining states beyond nations Proposition 2: Imagining the multi-ness of states Proposition 3: Imagining a 'feeling' state Proposition 4: Imagining states as public things Reimagination as political labour References Reimagining the state: Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism Regulating the form of the household and social reproduction The political, legal and performative form of the state Engaging the state: solidarity Acknowledgements References State as pharmakon Words that wound Speech, agency, politics The right to provoke Speaking truth to power?Acknowledgements References II Performing re-readings Why Africa’s ‘weak states’ matter: A postcolonial critique of Euro-Western discourse on African statehood and sovereignty On 'African statehood'Human security and R2P: Debating sovereignty A note on colonial representations of 'African statehood'Why Africa's weak states matter: A postcolonial debate References The ethical state?Introduction State power: Gramsci, Poulantzas and Foucault Feminist state theory The postcolonial state and the question of sovereignty Judith Butler's perspective on state (criticism)Jewish criticism of Zionism Limits of the ethical Utopias of peaceful coexistence Conclusion References Christian Israel Christian Judeophobia European Christian empire building Protestant pre-millennialism Orienting towards Christendom Conclusion Acknowledgements References Using the master’s tools: Rights and radical politics The story of origins and the possibility of reimagining the state Charles Mills: Rawls, Rousseau and the subversion of contract Préfiguration and the rejection of the master's tools Contract and free agreement Préfiguration, free agreement and rights Conclusion: Reimagining the state Acknowledgements References III Prefigurative practices Anticipatory representation: Thinking art and museums as platforms of resourceful statecraft The political context of the current Palestinian cultural mobilisation The impossible institution: Designing a Palestinian national museum Khalil Rabah's Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind Contemporary Art Museum Palestine (CAMP)The Palestinian biennials Conclusions References Conceptual prefiguration and municipal radicalism: Reimagining what it could mean to be a state Retrieving the state: But on what terms?State pluralism State conceptualising from the municipal left British municipal radicalism Embedded in everyday life State activism State care The value of reimagining the state Conclusion Acknowledgements References Regulating with social justice in mind: An experiment in reimagining the state Understandings of regulation Contesting regulation: Expertise, experience, deliberation and creativity Problems of deliberation Questions of creativity 'Life chances': Co-producing sociological fiction Who decides what's in my fridge?Isolation and loneliness in older people Political reimaginings of regulation Acknowledgements References IV Reimagining otherwise Harmful thoughts: Reimagining the coercive state?Turbulent states: Old problems and new possibilities Can existing powers and agencies be reimagined?What do we imagine coercion might be used for?Can popular control be exercised over state apparatuses and agents?And finally?Acknowledgements References Border abolition and how to achieve it Abolition Open borders, no borders and border abolition An internationalist border abolition programme Challenges and risks Conclusion Acknowledgements References Refusal first, then reimagination: Presenting the Burn in Flames Post-Patriarchal Archive in Circulation Concluding reflections Thinking differently Time, space and the politics of representation Problematising politics Living with ambivalence References

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