Legal Imaginaries of Crisis and Fear

Martin Belov is Professor in Constitutional and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Sofia ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’. He is Vice Dean of the University of Sofia ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’, Faculty of Law.

• Chapter 1: The Concept of Dark ConstitutionalismMartin BelovChapter 2: Is it the End of the World as We Know it? The Heuristics of Fear and Apocalyptic Visions in PoliticsMarta SoniewickaChapter 3: “Nothing Spreads Like Fear”. From the Government of the Plague to the Crime of ContagionEmilia MusumeciChapter 4: Constitutional Over-Belief: Affective Intensity as a Function of LegitimationRichard SherwinChapter 5: Revolutionary Constitutions and their Constitutionalism: The Internalization of Fear as Process and the Performance of Crisis in the Service of StabilityLarry Catá BackerChapter 6: From Fear to Hope: Law and Emotions' Response to Global ChallengesJulia WesołowskaChapter 7: Politics of Fear and Social Transformation Through the Lens of Legal PoliticsMario KrešićChapter 8: (Re)Invention of Memory. Constitutional Narratives in Central European – Sombre or Luminous?Mirosław M. SadowskiChapter 9: Trauma, Melancholia and the LawSabarish SureshChapter 10: Crisis Affects in the International Legal DiscourseJean D’AspremontChapter 11: Terrorism as Imaginary: Creating Politics of FearVesselin PopovskiChapter 12: Climate Alarmism and DenialismShalvi PonwarConclusion: Pulsing Constitutionalism and the Dichotomy between Dark and Bright Constitutionalism as Driving Force in Constitutional Space-TimeMartin Belov