Constituent Power and the Modern State

Nootens, Geneviève

doi:10.4324/9781003221722-2

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“…It should also be noted that we do not mean, as did writers in antiquity and as do their modern heirs (Berman 2018), that democracy becomes mob rule, whereupon its unruliness overwhelms the institutions that constrain it. Democracy, in our understanding, and following Wolin (1994) and others such as Graeber (2007), Honig (1993), andNegri (1999), is agonistic and essentially disruptive. It institutes forms of social organization that sustain acts of disruption, excess, or refusal without threatening democracy's own conditions of possibility.…”

Section: Authoritarianism and Democracymentioning

confidence: 95%

The Ordinariness of January 6: Rhetorics of Participation in Antidemocratic Culture

Valayden,

Walzer,

Moore

2024

Journal of Right-Wing Studies

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The January 6, 2021, Capitol riot appeared as an extraordinary and shocking event to many American citizens. In fact, the various framings of the riot such as “insurrection,” “sedition,” or “domestic terrorism” seem to confirm the unprecedented nature of the day. By contrast, in this article we argue that January 6 can be understood in terms of its ordinariness, that is, as “the most ordinary thing that could happen” when viewed in the context of right-wing politics. We first argue that the reliance on a universalized dichotomy between authoritarianism and democracy in current research on right-wing politics in the United States tends to reify those terms, and thus miss the ordinary and routine dimension of antidemocratic practices. We subsequently propose the concept antidemocratic cultures to understand how right-wing political dispositions are fabricated through and mediated by rhetorical acts including speech, written texts, and embodied everyday practice. We analyze the rhetoric of participation of riot participants by reading their text messages, social media posts, and interviews with law enforcement and news media, as detailed in their arrest sheets. The rhetoric of participation of riot participants reveals how political dispositions are fabricated through ordinary language use and how these identities congeal in antidemocratic cultures. In the last section, we further discuss how a theory of antidemocratic cultures provides a novel framework to understand contemporary right-wing politics.

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Section: Authoritarianism and Democracymentioning

confidence: 95%

The Ordinariness of January 6: Rhetorics of Participation in Antidemocratic Culture

Valayden,

Walzer,

Moore

2024

Journal of Right-Wing Studies

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“…Consequently, groups are oppressed, and inequalities becomes prevalent. Negri (1999) notes that a group becomes threatened with any language policies that hinder their language rights and this may lead to violent responses by the oppressed group. This may also lead to various animosities.…”

Section: Conflicts In Ethnolinguistic Vitalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even though these actions may start with something simple, such as a peaceful protest, they may escalate into wars (Stanton, 1999) if their concerns were ignored by the authorities. However, if the authority manages to address their concerns, treaties or agreements are/may be signed whereby their rights are recognized by the state (Negri, 1999). However, if they are still neglected, these groups may take another step further by committing various atrocities to express their concern (Semelin, 2007).…”

Section: Conflicts In Ethnolinguistic Vitalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnolinguistics Vitality Theory: The Last Stance for a Language Survival

Jamallullail

Nordin

2023

Sustainable Multilingualism

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Summary The survival of a language represents a part of the cultural identity of a group; therefore, groups often try to protect their identity from extinction. Hence, this prompts an understanding of how an ethnic group tries to protect their language in an inter/intra-ethnic setting concerning the Ethnolinguistic Vitality Theory which considers two main aspects to be important, namely the ‘Sustainability’ (Su) of the language and the ‘Strength’ (S) that must be met for a language to survive. The author shows that both aspects are vital to ensure that a language survives or faces extinction. The clashes of ‘Conflict amelioration/exacerbation’ and ‘Manufactured Identity’ lead to certain groups condoning violence to dominate the other and the other group to avoid language death. The study discusses Ethnolinguistics and the Ethnolinguistic Vitality Theory and its issues, language death in its two forms such as Linguicide and Glottophagy, and the processes that can ensure language survival, such as Reclamation, Revitalization, and Reinvigoration, providing concrete examples from various parts of the world to illustrate the discussed processes. Research concludes by stating that various inter/intra-ethnic conflicts are inevitable and may lead to the presence or the death of the language, but group’s motivation to preserve its language and identity can lead to language maintenance and survival.

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“…The aim of a politics of the interstices like the one experienced in Naples during the 2010s is the living practice of an everyday democracy (Beveridge and Koch, 2019;Purcell, 2008), understood in a broadly ethical sense as a way of living together and being a community (Negri, 2009), rather than as the rationalistic design of a stabilised form of participatory democracy or the founding of a new political party. In the new municipalist experiment in Naples of the 2010s, the creation of new institutions and the practice of an embryonic form of faceto-face democracy have coexisted with a constant confrontation with the national government and the European Union over local autonomy and the redistribution of national wealth.…”

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confidence: 99%

New institutions and the politics of the interstices. Experimenting with a face-to-face democracy in Naples

2022

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This article analyses the politics of new municipalism in Naples in relation to the constellation of ‘new institutions’ that has arisen from this politics. These ‘new institutions’ are illustrative of a politics of the interstices as a distinctive trait of the convergence between city government and social movements in Naples, as the latter have opted for staying neither outside nor inside official institutions and the city government has adapted its conduct to this strategy. To illustrate this point, the article explores the emerging constellation of ‘new institutions’ in Naples, which is understood as an embryonic form of radical ‘face-to-face democracy’ (in Murray Bookchin’s terms) at the municipal level, that departs from mainstream conceptions of participatory democracy and commons-based democracy. Through this analysis, the article argues that the experience of new municipalism in Naples offers evidence of a kind of participatory urban democracy understood not in a procedural sense but in a genuinely political vein, where civic participation and political conflict productively coexist with institutional creativity.

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Constituent Power and the Modern State

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The Ordinariness of January 6: Rhetorics of Participation in Antidemocratic Culture

The Ordinariness of January 6: Rhetorics of Participation in Antidemocratic Culture

Ethnolinguistics Vitality Theory: The Last Stance for a Language Survival

New institutions and the politics of the interstices. Experimenting with a face-to-face democracy in Naples

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