This panel will bring together leading scholars to discuss Zoran Oklopcic‘ recent book: Beyond the People. Social Imaginary and Constituent Imagination (OUP, 2018). Beyond the People develops a provocative, interdisciplinary, and meta-theoretical critique of the idea of popular sovereignty. It asks simple but far-reaching questions: Can ‘imagined’ communities, or ‘invented’ peoples, ever be theorized without,...
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“Your only right is to obey“: Securing Identity in the PRC
The quote in the title comes from a transcript of an interview with Xie Yang, a human rights lawyer in the PRC. ‘Your only right is to obey‘ is the ultimate, and ultimately inhumane, principle of authoritarian rule marking the collapse of obligation into obedience. It sees force making contact with the exposed, unprotected nerve...
The Redress of Law
This intervention will discuss the introductory chapter of the book and will focus on the space of political conflict and constituent power in constitutional orders almost suffocated by market thinking.