Avskaffelse av juridisk kjønn i Storbritannia: Prefigurativ lovreform
I dette seminaret vil professor Davina Cooper holde en forelesning om prefigurasjon som vitenskapelig metode og politikken rundt avskaffelse av juridisk kjønn i Storbritannia.
Hovedinnhold
Davina Cooper er professor i juss og politisk teori ved King's College London. Hun er en tverrfaglig forsker som jobber med begreper, transformativ politikk, statlig aktivisme og eksperimentelle samfunn.
Mellom 2018 og 2022 ledet hun det ESRC-finansierte prosjektet Future of Legal Gender, som utforsker implikasjonene og risikoen ved å avskaffe juridisk kjønn. Sluttrapporten fra prosjektet kan leses her.
Seminaret er et samarbeid mellom Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning (SKOK) og Centre on Law and Social Transformation (LawTransform) og er åpent for alle interesserte. Etter professor Coopers forelesning vil det være mulig å stille spørsmål. Lette forfriskninger vil bli servert.
Abstract
The Controversial Politics of Abolishing Legal Sex in Britain: A study in Prefigurative Law Reform
Prefiguration has become a re-popularised political strategy of embodying in the present future-facing political goals. This talk explores its value as an academic method, where radical, future-oriented, legislative proposals are treated as if they were already worthy of serious consideration.
The focus of my exploration is the proposal to abolish legal sex and gender status in Britain – a legal move at the heart of a four-year research council funded project that ended in 2022.
In this talk, I explore the politics of abolishing legal status (described as decertification) – attending to its value and also to its risks as a highly controversial proposal in 21st century Britain.
I then consider how posing a radical legal reform, like this, can advance three progressive academic objectives: analysing what is, rehearsing change, and intervening in the present.
Exploring the abolition of legal sex status illuminates everyday attachments (and anxieties) towards sex and gender categories, alongside contemporary developments taking place in the shadow of state law; it provides a legal structure for imagining, rehearsing, and prototyping change; and by building a controversial legal reform, it acts within the political struggles currently taking place.
