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SUMMARY:'What good is playing at being a state?' - key note lecture by Pr
 ofessor Davina Cooper
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DESCRIPTION:* This key note lecture open to the public is part of Everyda
 y Revolutions in Southern and Eastern Europe event which will take place
  on 19 & 20 May 2017 in Samuel Alexander Building (North Wing) and at th
 e Whitworth Art Gallery. For full programme and to reserve a free ticket
  see: http://everydayrevolutions2017.wordpress.com/ *\n\nDavina Cooper i
 s a Professor of Law & Political Theory at the University of Kent. Her w
 ork approaches questions of transformative politics – their possibilitie
 s\, limits\, and conflicts - in relation to the state\, experiments in l
 iving\, and cultural diversity. Her work focuses on bringing new concept
 ual thinking to these spaces and politics\, and in turn works from these
  sites to explore new ways of conceptualising the state\, power\, care\,
  equality and markets.\n\nHer current project explores what it could mea
 n to be a state in ways that tie political governance to progressive tra
 nsformative politics\; the book from this project grounds its reimaginin
 g in the transnational struggle currently taking shape over conservative
  Christian refusal to support gay-positive initiatives.\n\nEarlier books
  include: Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces (Duk
 e UP\, 2014)\; Challenging Diversity: Rethinking Equality and the Value 
 of Difference (Cambridge UP\, 2004)\; Governing out of Order: Space\, La
 w and the Politics of Belonging (Rivers Oram\, 1998)\; Power in Struggle
 : Feminism\, Sexuality (Open UP\, NYU\, 1995)\; and Sexing the City: Les
 bian and Gay Politics within the Activist State (1994).\n\nBetween 2004 
 and 2009\, Davina directed the AHRC Research Centre for Law\, Gender & S
 exuality. And before then was Faculty Research Dean for the Social Scien
 ces at Keele University. She has been a specialist advisor to the Britis
 h Parliamentary Select Committee on Education focusing on their HE enqui
 ry\; and has sat on various academic grants boards and panels. She has b
 een a trustee of the Law & Society Association (US)\, and member of a ra
 nge of journal editorial boards and international advisory committees.\n
 \nShe founded and co-edits the academic book series\, Social Justice\, w
 ith Sarah Lamble and Sarah Keenan\, published by Routledge.\n\nShe has b
 een a London magistrate\, and between 1986 and 1990 was a locally electe
 d councillor\, and committee chair on Haringey Council\, London.
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Gallery 3\, The Whitworth\, Manchester
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