Scholars from across the UK, Europe and the US will be contributing to\u00a0a\u00a0two-day workshop in May, interrogating the question of whether states have a place within a transformative\u00a0progressive politics.<\/p>\n
The workshop<\/a>, to be held on Kent’s Canterbury campus on 19\/20 May, will be hosted by Professor Davina Cooper, Professor of Law and Political Theory at Kent Law School. It will\u00a0offer\u00a0participants the opportunity to reimagine\u00a0the concept of the\u00a0state for progressive politics. Speakers include:<\/p>\n Further\u00a0questions for consideration at the workshop\u00a0include:<\/p>\n Professor Cooper<\/a> has explored the theme of transformative politics<\/a> in articles, book chapters and books over twenty years, including in: Challenging Diversity: Rethinking Equality and the Value of Difference<\/em> (2004); Governing out of Order: Space, Law and the Politics of Belonging<\/em> (1998); Power in Struggle: Feminism, Sexuality and the State<\/em> (1995); and Sexing the City: Lesbian and Gay Politics within the Activist State<\/em> (1994). Her most recent book, Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces <\/em>(2014) was awarded the Charles Taylor Book Award<\/a> 2015.<\/p>\n Places on the workshop are free but\u00a0limited; to reserve\u00a0a place, please email: KLSResearch@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n The workshop is one of a number of events supported\u00a0by Social Critiques of Law<\/a> (SoCriL), a research group at Kent dedicated to the critical study of law, regulation and governance.<\/p>\n\n
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