Kent Law School Professor Davina Cooper has been awarded the Feminist Theory Annual Essay Prize 2016.<\/p>\n
In\u00a0selecting Professor Cooper\u2019s essay \u2018Bringing the state up conceptually: Forging a body politics through anti-gay Christian refusal\u2019, the judge commended her \u201cexcellent scholarship.\u201d The essay was shortlisted by the editors of Feminist Theory<\/a> from amongst all essays submitted in 2015 before its selection for the prize by an external judge. The judge said the article was a pleasurable read, a feature that was noted as a \u201crare achievement and an immense strength.\u201d<\/p>\n The editors and the judge acknowledged there had been lots of really strong articles published in the journal in 2015 but noted that Professor Cooper\u2019s work had really stood out.<\/p>\n Feminist Theory is an international interdisciplinary journal engaged in debates about the diversity of feminism. It incorporates perspectives from across the broad spectrum of the humanities and social sciences and the full range of feminist political and theoretical stances. It\u00a0seeks articles<\/a> with a strong grounding in feminist theory from scholars of all levels and on a range of subjects.<\/p>\n Last year, Professor Cooper was awarded the Charles Taylor Book Award<\/a> 2015 for her book Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces<\/em>. The annual award recognizes the best book in political science that employs or develops interpretive methodologies and methods and was made by the American Political Science Association (APSA).<\/p>\n Next month Professor Cooper will be hosting a two-day workshop<\/a> interrogating the question of whether states have a place within a transformative progressive politics. The workshop, to be held on Kent\u2019s Canterbury campus on 19\/20 May, will offer participants the opportunity to reimagine the concept of the state for progressive politics.<\/p>\n