Haunting sovereignty and the neurotic subject

Contemporary Constellations of Fear, Anxiety and Uncertainty

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ID5085534
AuthorsBrigitte Bargetz (0000-0002-5920-2374, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume25
Issue1
Pages20-35
Publication date2021-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2020.1786502
OpenAlexW3040325664
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited35

Debates about a politics of fear have endured in Euro-Atlantic societies for many years, and even decades. Recently, they have reached a new peak in the face of right-wing populism. While some scholarship claims that populist politics have especially been successful in instrumentalizing fear, this paper offers a different reading. The author argues that politics of fear and anxiety should be understood as an expression of the erosion of sovereignty, apparent both in the nation-state and in a new mode of subjectivation. It is a ghostly sovereignty that finds both a form and an addressee in the neurotic subject

Anxiety · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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