Constituent Power

Matilda Arvidsson is Associate Professor (Docent) in International Law and Associate Senior Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Matilda’s recent publications include International Law and Posthuman Theory co-edited with Emily Jones (Routledge, 2024) and Constituent Power: Law, Popular Rule and Politics co-edited with Leila Brännström and Panu Minkkinen (EUP, 2020). Leila Brännström is a Senior Lecturer and researcher in jurisprudence at the Department of Law, Lund University, Sweden. Her research and teaching interests are focused on political and legal theory and human rights law. She has written a number of journal articles and book chapters and is co-editor of The Contemporary Relevance of Carl Schmitt: Law, Politics, Theology (Routledge, 2015). Panu Minkkinen is Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Helsinki. Panu is author of Thinking without Desire: A First Philosophy of Law (Hart, 2009), Sovereignty, Knowledge, Law (Routledge, 2011) and co-editor (with Matilda Arvidsson and Leila Brännström) of The Contemporary Relevance of Carl Schmitt: Law, Politics, Theology (Routledge, 2015) and Constituent Power: Law, Popular Rule and Politics (EUP, 2020).

• Table of contentsEditors’ IntroductionPolitics, Shamelessness, and the People of RessentimentBenjamin ArditiPart 1: The Ambiguities of Constituent Power1. ‘Enemies of the People’? The Judiciary and Claude Lefort’s ‘Savage Democracy’Panu Minkkinen2. Public Space, Public Time: Constitution and the Relay of Authority in Arendt’s On RevolutionEmily Zakin3. Are There Inherent Limits to Constitutional Amendment? An Analysis of Carl Schmitt’s ArgumentLars VinxPart 2: Popular Identity and its Others4. The People: Ethnoracial Configurations, Old and NewLeila Brännström5. Hannah Arendt and the Glimmering Paradox of Constituent PowerHanna Lukkari6. Constituent Power from Cultural Practice: Implications from the Malheur Wildlife Refuge OccupationJuho Turpeinen7. Claiming Human Rights: The Reflexive Identity of the PeopleEduardo Gill-PedroPart 3: Democracy and Populism8. Katechontic Democracy? Carl Schmitt and the Restraining Mediation of Popular PowerHjalmar Falk9. The Power of the PeopleAri Hirvonen and Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo10. Populism: Plebeian Power against OligarchyCamila Vergara11. Constituent Power and Constitutive Exceptions: Carl Schmitt, Populism, and the Consummation of SecularisationJon Wittrock