Meierhenrich, Jens ORCID: 0000-0002-2165-3268 (2021) Constitutional dictatorships, from colonialism to COVID-19. Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 17. 411 - 439. ISSN 1550-3585
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Abstract
In this article, I use the concept of constitutional dictatorship as a heuristic, as a way of thinking more explicitly about constitutional violence than is customary in comparative constitutional law. Constitutional dictatorship is an epic concept. It is capable of illuminating-and retelling-epic histories of constitutional law, of alerting us to commonalities in constitutional practices of domination-and thus of violence-that would otherwise remain shrouded in legal orientalism. The analysis aspires to make constitutional law strange again. To this end, I trace nomoi and narratives of constitutional dictatorship from colonialism to the coronavirus pandemic. Arguing against emergency scripts, I relate the idea of "emergency" to the everyday and both to coloniality. Mine is a rudimentary conceptual history-a Begriffsgeschichte-of constitutional dictatorship. I think of the empirical vignettes about crisis government in the colony/postcolony on which my comparative historical analysis is based as prolegomena to a critical theory of constitutional dictatorship.
Item Type: | Article |
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Official URL: | https://www.annualreviews.org/journal/lawsocsci |
Additional Information: | © 2021 Annual Reviews Inc. |
Divisions: | International Relations Centre for International Studies |
Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) K Law > K Law (General) |
Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2022 14:27 |
Last Modified: | 02 Nov 2024 08:30 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/114347 |
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