Legal Imaginaries of Crisis and Fear : Dark Constitutionalism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belov, Martin.

Series:

Nomos Studies in Law, Culture and Power Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

This book explores the epistemological, semiotic, semantic, and heuristic dimensions of the dark emotions in constitutional and international law.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction: The Role of Constitutional and International Law Imaginaries for Shaping the Realm of Legally Relevant Fear in Times of Crisis, Emergency, and Transition

Part I Fear Constitutionalism: Epistemological, Semiotic, Semantic, and Heuristic Approaches to Dark Emotions in Constitutions and Constitutional Law

Chapter 1 The Concept of Dark Constitutionalism

Chapter 2 Is It the End of the World as We Know It?1: Apocalyptic Narratives in Political Debates and the Heuristics of Fear

Chapter 3 'Nothing Spreads Like Fear': From the Government of the Plague to the Crime of Contagion

Part II Emotional Constitutionalism and the Collective Emotional Self-Identification

Chapter 4 Constitutional Over-Belief: Affective Intensity as a Function of Law's Legitimation

Chapter 5 Revolutionary Constitutions and Their Constitutionalism: The Internalisation of Fear as Process and the Performance of Crisis in the Service of Stability

Chapter 6 From Fear to Hope : Law and Emotions' Response to Global Challenges

Part III Dark Constitutional Memories, Memory Politics of Fear, and the Emotions of Constitutional Transition and Social Transformation

Chapter 7 Politics of Fear and Social Transformation through the Lens of Legal Politics

Chapter 8 (Re)Invention of Memory: Constitutional Narratives in Central European Preambles - Sombre or Luminous?

Chapter 9 Trauma, Melancholia, and the Law

Part IV International and Transnational Imaginaries of Crisis and Fear

Chapter 10 Crisis Affects in the International Legal Discourse

Chapter 11 Terrorism as Imaginary: Creating Politics of Fear

Chapter 12 Climate Alarmism and Denialism.

Pulsing Constitutionalism and the Dichotomy between Dark and Bright Constitutionalism as Driving Force in Constitutional Space-Time

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-04-075445-7

1-003-68530-7

1-04-075439-2

9781003685302

OCLC:

1546970359