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Davina Cooper

@davinacooper.bsky.social

Research prof in law & political theory, KCL; interdisciplinary scholar currently working on gender politics, utopianism, speculative law, and conceptual activism; books include: Feeling like a State, and Everyday Utopias

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TheoryLAB @theorylab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We’re kicking off our work-in-progress seminar series on Wed 30 Sept @qmulsse.bsky.social with our very own Jaakko Heiskanen, presenting on "Tracing Concepts with Jacques Derrida”. Further sessions are on the attached poster. Message us here or at spir-theory@qmul.ac.uk if you’d like to join.

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Davina Cooper @davinacooper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sex, gender, concepts--how are they caught up in conflict? what is conceptual activism? how are concepts material? and what methods do they offer us? Some questions pursued in my new forthcoming book.

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Davina Cooper @davinacooper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Can utopianism help us think differently about failure--status quo failure and of radical projects? The AHRC network Special Issue in the European Journal of Social Theory is now out. The papers are excellent and well worth reading: journals.sagepub.com/toc/esta/29/3

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Davina Cooper @davinacooper.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

On the alternative perspectives offered by utopian thinking when it comes to radical legal proposals, gender politics, and critical charges of having failed and being unreal...

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Keeping Prefigurative Law in Play: Utopianism, Failure, and the Problem of Legal Sex | Law & Social Inquiry | Cambridge Core

Keeping Prefigurative Law in Play: Utopianism, Failure, and the Problem of Legal Sex

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Davina Cooper @davinacooper.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Very pleased to see this

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Davina Cooper @davinacooper.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

19th Feb, 3pm at KCL, seminar with Lisa Garforth and Neil Walker on new utopian directions; to attend please register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-direct...

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New Directions in Utopian Studies

With talks from Lisa Garforth and Neil Walker followed by discussion

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Davina Cooper @davinacooper.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

so pleased to see these articles by Dan Swain, Flora Renz, Kimberly Hutchings, Martin Coward and Debbie Lisle, and Maša Mrovlje... with more to follow

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Davina Cooper @davinacooper.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Are there good reasons to hold onto legal sex status, and what is happening with feminist politics in Britain, discussing this on Australia’s The philosopher’s zone, ABC, with David Rutledge, www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Is it time to get rid of legal gender status? - ABC listen

Most of us have Male or Female registered on our birth certificates - but what does this certification mean, in terms of its effect on our lives? There are many other things about us that have at leas...

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Davina Cooper @davinacooper.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

In these grim times, can utopianism benefit from failure? - interesting blog posts from the AHRC utopia and failure network, failingbetter.sps.ed.ac.uk

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University of Edinburgh | School of Social and Political Science | Home

The School of Social and Political Science is one of the leading schools of social science in the UK. We provide an outstanding educational environment for our students and support the highest-quality...

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Davina Cooper @davinacooper.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Ben Anderson will be giving a lecture at KCL (London) on 30th June at 6pm, I'm very pleased to say. It's on "the politics of feeling in crisis times". Do register if you're interested in attending and please reshare. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

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The Politics of Feeling in Crisis Times

Join for the Public Lecture on the Politics of Feeling in Crisis Times: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism

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Davina Cooper @davinacooper.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I am delighted Sylvia Walby will be giving a public lecture on the concept of society on 24th June at 5pm (at KCL), part of King's international interdisciplinary summer residence. If you'd like to come, please register on eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-a...

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Thinking about the concept of society

Public lecture with Prof Sylvia Walby

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Davina Cooper @davinacooper.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

An interesting and important piece of research open.substack.com/pub/worldwit...

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Imperfect Utopias: What might the future be if we have to share it with ‘them’?

By Andrew McCartan and Kath Browne

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