Global War, Popular Referendums, and (Non-)Declarations of Independence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774783 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edgar Illas (0000-0003-4600-3680) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 88-100 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2021.1963082 |
| OpenAlex | W3197479896 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
The formation of new states has always been an uncertain process. Yet with the emergence of global war and the destabilization of the political categories of modernity, state founding has become even more indeterminate. This paper examines how the contemporary conditions of endless war and sovereign instability thwart the performative acts of declarations of independence, especially, and paradoxically, when they result from a peaceful referendum. Drawing from Derrida’s analysis of the aporetic nature of declarations, I focus on how the globalization of war has actualized this aporetic nature by turning the creation of new states into permanently unsettled events. I illustrate this state of affairs with the 2017 (non-)Declaration of Independence of Catalonia
Aesthetics · Declaration of independence · Globalization · Independence (probability theory · Performative utterance · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Referendum · Sociology · Sovereign state · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Law · Philosophy
On War
The Size of Nations
Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor
Walled States, Waning Sovereignty
Nomos as a Problem for Disciplinary Reason
Political Theology
Re-Reading the Declaration of Independence as Perlocutionary Performative
Sovereignty Without Sovereignty
Contested Sovereignty
Declarations of Independence
The Declaration of Independence
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |