The End of Global Constitutionalism and Rise of Antidemocratic Politics

Kochi, Tarik

doi:10.1080/13600826.2020.1749037

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“…52 The paramount political and legal unit within Gitxsan society is the House, which is organized matrilinealy, and, at least historically, the size of the House allowed for face-to-face interaction of all House members within each House. 53 These kinship relations are crosscutting, extending beyond the matrilineal families, clans, and villages, and also connecting to other peoples such as the Nisga'a, Haida, Tsimshian, Wet'suwet'en, and beyond. In this way, they are the relational filament weaving the largest 48 Rundle, "Fuller's Relationships," 19.…”

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“…52 Rundle, "Fuller's Relationships," 24. 53 Overstall, "Tsimshian Power Point." Historically, the Houses that did not have enough women and girls would shrink in size, meaning that the unit would have great difficulty upholding its legal, political, and economic obligations to the land, the House, and to other Houses.…”

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“…52 Said's contrapuntal reading provide us with a glimpse into, as he saw it, "a more integrative view of human community and human liberation" untethered from both the rigidity of states and the exploitation of empires. 53 This is a vision of democratic humanism framed not in terms of "some tiny, defensively constituted corner of the world" but ratherfrom the beginning and alwaysin light of "the large, many-windowed house of human culture as a whole." 54 part iii LOCAL/GLOBAL PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACIES of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms.…”

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“…This constellation is characterized by complex processes of debordering and rebordering that undermine the idea of territorially bounded political spaces with borders that are clearly defined and unilaterally controlled by the state. 53 At least those futures of democracy that go beyond statist imaginaries and regressive nationalist-populist tendencies (and thus manage to qualify as futures at all) will only come into view once the challenge migration and migrant political agency pose to dominant ways of thinking and practicing citizenship and democracy is taken seriously. 50 This challenge also requires rethinking the radical-democratic and revolutionary idea of democratization as the actualization of constituent power that is sometimes presented as the source from which any future of democracy would have to spring.…”

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This edited volume argues that democracy is broader and more diverse than the dominant state-centered, modern representative democracies, to which other modes of democracy are either presumed subordinate or ignored. The contributors seek to overcome the standard opposition of democracy from below (participatory) and democracy from above (representative). Rather, they argue that through differently situated participatory and representative practices, citizens and governments can develop democratic ways of cooperating without hegemony and subordination, and that these relationships can be transformative. This work proposes a slow but sure, nonviolent, eco-social and sustainable process of democratic generation and growth with the capacity to critique and transform unjust and ecologically destructive social systems. This volume integrates human-centric democracies into a more mutual, interdependent and sustainable system on earth whereby everyone gains.

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“…As a result, long-term trends in global political economy are not easily reversed by any single state even within its own territorial borders. For instance, "new constitutional" neoliberalism (Gill 2003, 116-142;Hirschl 2004), manifested in the evermore-stringent legal constraints on national policies from the 1990s onwards, probably cannot be effectively combatted without cross-border action for new, truly transformative forms of global constitutionalism (Kochi 2020).…”

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A Cosmopolitan Reading of Modern Monetary Theory

Kotilainen

2021

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The increasingly influential neochartalist Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) comes with a nation-state-centric framing of politics. The neochartalists argue that many alleged globalisation-related constraints on national economic policy are illusory or seriously overstated. In their view, monetarily sovereign states enjoy substantial autonomy over their fiscal and monetary policy decisions. The neochartalist diagnosis thus seems to undermine cosmopolitan calls for supranational forms of macroeconomic governance. However, this paper argues that if we pay serious attention to a range of subtler obstacles and strategic incentives that apply especially to small currency-issuing states, cosmopolitan aspirations remain well-motivated. Accordingly, the political implications of MMT are reexamined and a case for supranational exercise of monetary sovereignty is made. The paper goes on to demonstrate how the standard state-centric approach to currency privileges can prove counterproductive from the perspective of democratic governance. It is concluded that neochartalism and cosmopolitanism can fruitfully both correct and enrich each other.

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