- 249 pages
- English
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About this book
The struggle over defining, naming, and using concepts is central to many political conflicts. In this original account of conceptual activism, Davina Cooper asks how new conceptual meanings are made, used, held, and experienced. Drawing on theoretical and empirical research, she analyzes the high-profile contemporary conflict in Britain over sex and gender. Here policymakers, regulatory bodies, community organizations, and academics fight to draw and redraw categories and their boundaries in a struggle that has spread across the census, speculative law reform, equality governance, and more. To understand the techniques and challenges that the advancement of new and controversial meanings faces, Conceptual Activism offers an innovative account of concepts and how meaning is reorganized in conditions of resistance, attentive to concepts' materiality, plasticity, force, and unexpected encounters. As sex and gender meet economy, property, play, and activism, Cooper demonstrates how and why academic work should engage in conceptual activism.
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Publisher
Duke University Press BooksYear
2026Print ISBN
9781478039280
9781478034322
eBook ISBN
9781478062899
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Materializing the Concept: From Conceptual Engineering to Census Sex
- 2. How Concepts Dance: As Sea Urchins, Mushrooms, and Little, Tiny Angels
- 3. Speculative Imaginaries: Decertification as Economy
- 4. Common Sense and Facing Both Ways: When Public Bodies Do Activism
- 5. Playing with Hazardous Concepts
- Conclusion: Gender’s Conceptual Morphologies, Methods, and Dances
- Notes
- References
- Index
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