Prefigurative Neoliberalism

A Provisional Analysis of the Global Sovereign Citizen Movement

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2290987
AutoresAmy Cohen (0000-0002-7691-2941, Beasley School of Law Temple University Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA), Ilana Gershon (0000-0003-0447-0694, Department of Anthropology Rice University Houston Texas USA)
Año2025
Volumen48
Número1
Fecha de publicación2025-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1081-6976 • E-ISSN: 1555-2934
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/plar.70000
OpenAlexW4409601836
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas24

Much contemporary research on prefigurative legality turns to left-leaning activists for ethnographic insights into practices that call forward an alternative legal world. We turn instead to a right-leaning movement commonly known by scholars as the Pseudolaw movement-or self-named (by some involved) as the sovereign citizen movement-filled with loosely affiliated groups that share a common ideological approach to law. We discuss the underlying logics motivating sovereign citizens' practices, discussing how a nostalgically based form of prefiguration shapes sovereign citizens' responses to contemporary neoliberal dilemmas. We then compare this right-leaning movement's approach to prefigurative legality with the approach of left-leaning activists

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