Cooper Everyday Utopias

The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7715-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Everyday Utopias explores how everyday utopias—sites enacting commonplace activities in egalitarian, democratic, or emancipatory ways—contribute to a transformative politics through the concepts they put into practice and inspire.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, Davina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

1. Introduction 1

2. Toward a Utopian Conceptual Attitude 24

3. Casting Equality and the Touch of State Governance 45

4. Public Nudism and the Pursuit of Equality 73

5. Unsettling Feminist Care Ethics through a Women's and Trans Bathhouse 100

6. Normative Time and the Challenge of Community Labor in Local Exchange Trading Schemes 129

7. Property as Belonging at Summerhill School 155

8. Market Play at Speaker's Corner 186

9. Conclusion 217

Notes 229

References 251

Index 277

Über Autor(innen)

Davina Cooper is Professor of Law and Political Theory at Kent Law School at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. She is the author of Challenging Diversity: Rethinking Equality and the Value of Difference; Governing Out of Order: Space, Law and the Politics of Belonging; and Power in Struggle: Feminism, Sexuality and the State.