Introduction
Resistance, disobedience or constituent power? Emerging narratives of transnational protest
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12923355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Niesen (0000-0003-4050-4265, Universität Hamburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 2-10 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of International Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1755-0882 • E-ISSN: 1755-1722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1755088218808065 |
| OpenAlex | W2899683132 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 20 |
Transnational social movements, campaigns and individual activists have described their activities in the traditional vocabularies of political dissent: as protest, opposition, contestation, dissidence or rebellion. Where strategies have involved illegal, well-publicised activities, the vocabularies of resistance and of civil disobedience have become an activist lingua franca. What all such descriptions have in common is that they paint a largely defensive picture of activist aims and self-understandings. In contrast, the emergence of the ‘global constitutionalist’ paradigm in international law and politics has re-introduced the category of constituent power. Transnational initiatives such as the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) have begun to frame their activities in a ‘constitutive’ and less in a ‘reactive’ language. When countering the challenges of cross-border domination, new collectives may grasp the chance for extra-institutional self-activation. The special issue aims to assess and compare the features and the various strengths and weaknesses of the respective languages of contestatory and constitutive politics
Civil disobedience · Contentious politics · Democracy · Dissent · Linguistics · Media studies · Narrative · Opposition (politics · Political dissent · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Resistance (ecology · Social movement · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Kontestation, Politisierung, Herrschaft
Kampf um politische Handlungsfähigkeit. Grundriss einer normativen Theorie globalen zivilen Ungehorsams
Resistance and Exodus
Potentiality, political protest and constituent power
Constituent power and constituent capacity in the making of a global constitutional treaty
Opposition and dissidence
Rule and resistance in global governance
Introduction
Protest and the Democratic Order
Varieties of populism and the challenges to Global Constitutionalism
A Theory of Contestation
Globalization and Sovereignty
Against democratic intergovernmentalism
A Sociology of Constituent Power
Challenging the masters of the treaties
Enacting a parallel world
Constituent power and civil disobedience
Theorizing state civil disobedience in international politics
Constituent power of the multitude
Opposition and dissidence
Constituent power beyond exceptionalism
Destituent power in the European Union
Reframing civil disobedience
Democratizing civil disobedience
Columbia Journal of Transnational Law
No-Saying” in Habermas
Introduction
Principled disobedience in the EU
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |