Matthews, Daniel (2021) Reframing sovereignty for the anthropocene. Transnational Legal Theory, 12 (1). pp. 44-77. doi:10.1080/20414005.2021.1929022 ISSN 2041-4005.

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Abstract

Writing on sovereignty has failed to address the challenges associated with planetary climatic change. As debates about the nature of sovereignty return to the fore, there remains little attention paid to how our newly unstable environmental conditions might call for sovereignty to be imagined anew. Drawing on Neil Walker’s account of the ‘sovereignty frame’–as a means of understanding the enduring relevance of sovereignty for contemporary law and politics – this article understands sovereignty as an aesthetic device which constitutively inures political subjects to the ecological forces and relations central to the climate crisis and the broader challenges associated with the Anthropocene. In taking up the task of reframing sovereignty in a way that properly attends to these issues, this article introduces how sovereignty’s spaces, subjects and modes of governance might be reimagined in light of the Anthropocene thesis and the various disruptions it heralds for social life.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
Journal or Publication Title:	Transnational Legal Theory
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	2041-4005
Official Date:	20 May 2021
Dates:	Date Event 20 May 2021 Available
Volume:	12
Number:	1
Page Range:	pp. 44-77
DOI:	10.1080/20414005.2021.1929022
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
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