Critical retrievals and ontological politics: New edges in sociolegal and political thinking CANCELLED

This interdisciplinary one-day workshop explores a series of innovative approaches to political and legal practice, materiality and justice. Drawing on different perspectives, the day’s animating question is: what intellectual resources can help us approach our ontological presents, pasts and futures afresh? Pursuing this question, the workshop will do three things: revisit familiar phenomena from unfamiliar angles; foreground the less examined and unattended-to parts of everyday life; and explore new diagnostic and conceptual methods that make political and legal phenomena appear as urgent matters to address.

 

09.15 - Coffee available

09.45 - Welcome and introductions

 

10.00-11.30 - Session 1: Materialities

Letters – Kathy Ferguson

Thinking through an emergent legal matter with a legal materialist approach. The example of 'climate justice’ - Hyo Yoon Kang

 

11.45-13.15 - Session 2: Revisiting the politics and concepts of gender

The laws of social reproduction – Prabha Kotiswaran

How should we think about gender? - Davina Cooper

 

13.15-14.00 - Lunch

 

14.00-15.30 - Session 3: On recognition and prefiguration

Legal recognition and its impact on alternative forms of affective ties – Valeria Venditti

Prefigurative legal practice - Mohammad Afshary

 

15.30-16.15 - Reception and refreshments

 

For further information, please contact Davina Cooper: Davina.cooper@kcl.ac.uk

Photo credit: Ben Kanter