Migration beyond self-determination? On Inés Valdez’s Democracy and Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12610126 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robin Celikates (0009-0008-7663-0769, Freie Universität Berlin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Pages | 1-8 |
| Publication date | 2026-03-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-8230 • E-ISSN: 1743-8772 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13698230.2026.2645292 |
| OpenAlex | W7138881370 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
In what follows, I formulate three interrelated challenges in response to the powerful critique of imperial popular sovereignty and the vision of anti-imperial popular sovereignty that Inés Valdez develops in Democracy and Empire: 1) In addition to the critique of the dominant imperial form of popular sovereignty and self-determination, more empirical and theoretical attention should be paid to informal, disobedient, eruptive, and revolutionary forms of popular self-determination and their complex genealogies. 2) Migration, understood not just as world-historical event but as world-historical force, or in Marx’s words, real movement, provides an empirically and theoretically significant limit case for this alternative genealogy and form of self-determination. 3) The reality of migration forces us to ask how the alternative form of anti-imperial popular sovereignty envisioned in the final part of the book could emerge and develop in a world of capitalist markets and nation-states.
Agency (philosophy · Government (linguistics · Immigration · Politics · Power (physics · State (computer science · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Latin American and Latino Studies
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |