Beyond the People - Social Imaginary and Constituent Imagination

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Sommario

• I: A Different Beginning: Theory as Imagination


• II: Constituent Imagination: Behind Popular Expectations


• III: Many, Other, Place, Frame: Beyond a Sovereign People


• IV: Hope, Telos, Xenos: Beyond Constituent Power


• V: Nephos, Scopos, Algorithm: Beyond Self-Determination (I)


• VI: The Nomos and the Gaze: Beyond Self-Determination (II)


• VII: Recursive Isomorphs: Beyond Foundational Authority


• VIII: Responsive Isomorphs: Beyond Constitutional Self-Government


• IX: An Isomorphic Pluriverse: Beyond Sovereign Peoples


• X: A New Hope: Image Wars and Eutopian Imagination

Info autore

Zoran Oklopcic is an associate professor at the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. He earned his SJD from the University of Toronto. He has been a MacCormick Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh; a member of the junior faculty at Harvard Law School's Institute for Global Law and Policy in Doha, Qatar; and a Hauser Global Research Fellow at NYU School of Law.

Riassunto

A transdisciplinary account of the polemical vocabularies of sovereignty, democracy, self-determination, constituent power, and constitutionalism, this book is a pioneering attempt to systematically envision these ideals and polemical concepts, not just as the objects of scholarly inquiry, but also as products of theoretical imaginations.

Testo aggiuntivo

This is an ambitious, brilliant, and difficult book. Instead of (yet again) calling for more imagination in legal and political thinking, it shows us what the exercise of imagination looks like. Full of metaphors, figures, and images, as well as dense engagements with modern theories about nationhood, this work invites us not to fix- again- the meaning of notions such as nation, people, or self-determination, but instead to view what happens in such fixing. As elusive as the world it seeks to map, this work offers less an agenda than sharp and original insight into the trajectories, openings, and limits of our inherited political imaginaries. As nationalisms are resurgent, this is surely welcome.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Zoran Oklopcic, Zoran (Associate Professor Oklopcic
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780198799092
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879909-2
• Pagine: 408
• Serie: Oxford Constitutional Theory; Oxford Constitutional Theory
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto pubblico, amministrativo, costituzionale; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, LAW / Constitutional, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political structures: democracy, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general