At ICON-S 2017 in Copenhagen, members and friends of the Political Constitutional Theory (PolCon) network organised a panel subtitled ‘A View from Political Theory‘. We will retain the subtitle at ICON-S 2018 especially as political theory cannot be said to be over-reprsented in the papers presented at the conferences. The title of this year‘s panel...
Tag: <span>Panu Minkkinen</span>
The Aesthetics of Constitutional Space
Constitutional theory will by default subsume spatial phenomena under the territorial template of its statist paradigm. Constitutional space is, then, the ‘container‘ that is more or less compatible with the spatial expanse that the constitutionally delimited state occupies. Alternatively, constitutional space may be seen metaphorically as an organizational schematic, as a ‘constitutional architecture‘ in which...