Post-nationalism, sovereignty and the state

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ID2399723
AutoresGary Wickham (0000-0002-5758-7979, Murdoch University, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume57
Fascículo1
Páginas47-58
Data de publicação2021-03-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1440783321993535
OpenAlexW3141497681
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas14

The term 'post-national formations' is a product of some of the recent work of Jürgen Habermas. In using this term, Habermas highlights what he regards as a laudatory trend in social and political research. This is the trend away from an intense focus on the role of nation-states - a role he believes to be unconducive to progressive politics - and towards a focus on the role of new configurations - a role he believes to be much more conducive to this type of politics. 'Post-national formations', then, is the term Habermas uses to describe new non-state configurations he has identified. He is confident these configurations will eventually break free of the supposed yoke of the nation-state and usher in a new era of progressivism. This article is not concerned with the post-national formations literature per se. Rather, it is concerned with this literature's failure to take into account the full history of both the nation-state and the notion of sovereignty that helps the nation-state to function. In pursuing this concern, the article draws material from various sources to offer a short historical defence of the sovereign state

Law and economics · Nation state · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Popular sovereignty · Progressivism · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science) · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Religion and Society Interactions

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