Everyday Utopias

"Davina Cooper offers a careful and nuanced analysis of 'everyday utopias,' bringing the concept of utopia back to the present to give it a future. By finding potential in unexpected places, and showing how we can be involved in the actualization of worlds, this book is as hopeful and inspired as the practices it describes." - Sara Ahmed, author of The Promise of Happiness

"Exploring a wide variety of projects with more or less radical agendas, from nudist colonies to alternative schools to official equality rights bureaus, Davina Cooper's brilliant work shows us nothing less than a new way to do theory. Everyday Utopias is itself an everyday utopian theoretical space, showing the fruitfulness of eschewing tired polemics in favor of close analyses of the myriad social experiments going on around us." - Mariana Valverde, author of Everyday Law on the Street: City Governance in an Age of Diversity

“[H]er third chapter is a fascinating discussion of states as sensory formations.  She is attentive to both feeling as a state ethos and feeling in a thinned out state....Summing up: Recommended.” - H. G. Reid, Choice

“Davina Cooper takes the reader on an amazing journey – from an erotic bathhouse to a private school, Cooper aims to locate utopia in quotidian practice. … [T]he book has surely made important contributions to utopian studies. Cooper’s analysis is thoughtful and meticulous. This is a well-written book that will likely join the bookshelves of many utopian hopefuls.” - Angela Jones, International Journal of Law in Context

“The imaginative possibilities of Cooper’s approach, particularly when the connections sought are with ‘minor stream’ life, are emphatically brought home to the reader by the almost endlessly creative conceptualisation that characterises much of Everyday Utopias.” - Will Odogwu, Feminist Legal Studies