Keynotes

Davina Cooper, King's College London

Davina Cooper is a research professor in law and political theory at King’s College London. Her interdisciplinary work has two interconnected aspects: post-normative conceptual thinking and methodologies (particularly in relation to concepts of state, equality, gender, property, and power); and state and non-state forms of radical governance and governing out of order. She is the author of various books, including Feeling like a state (Duke, 2019) and Everyday utopias (Duke, 2014). She directed the AHRC Research Centre on Law, Gender & Sexuality; has been a locally elected politician; and is currently completing an ESRC project on the Future of Legal Gender.

Matthijs van de Sande, Radboud University, Nijmegen

Mathijs van de Sande is assistant professor of political philosophy at Radboud University in Nijmegen (the Netherlands). In 2017 he obtained his PhD at the Institute of Philosophy (KU Leuven) with a thesis on prefigurative politics. He has published on prefiguration, social movement politics, and political representation in various outlets, such as Res Publica, Rethinking Marxism and Constellations. Mathijs is a co-editor of the volume The Representative Turn in Political Representation (together with Lisa Disch and Nadia Urbinati) and currently works on a monograph on prefigurative democracy (both at Edinburgh University Press). Since September 2021, he has been involved in a new research project on ‘Communalism as a democratic repertoire’ (Funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung).

Paul Raekstad, University of Amsterdam

Paul Raekstad is an Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam. They work on methodological questions in political theory, theories of freedom and democracy, proposals for future economic institutions, and questions of strategy and transition, in particular prefigurative politics.