The Self-Defeating Notion of the Sovereign Subject in US Gun Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22157409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chad Kautzer (Lehigh University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Lateral (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2469-4053 • E-ISSN: 2469-4053 |
| Publisher | Cultural Studies Association (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.25158/l9.1.6 |
| OpenAlex | W3038299769 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
The politicization of U.S. gun culture since the 1970s has popularized the idea that individual freedom and security is dependent upon the reclamation of traditionally defined sovereign powers. In this article, I outline how the exercise of popular sovereignty is a social relation of rule often involving extra-legal forms of violence, which regularizes unequal levels of vulnerability and security among various groups. I then address how the so-called sovereign subject, thought to be at the root of popular sovereignty, is conceptually contradictory and practically self-defeating. In practice, attempts to return to a supposed pre-political condition of personal sovereignty in order to secure individual freedom involves dismantling the very social conditions that enable such freedom in the first place
Economics · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Computer Science · Gun Ownership and Violence Research · Law · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |