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V for Vendetta as vernacular critique : the exceptional state of liberal political economy
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Rogers, Chris (2019) V for Vendetta as vernacular critique : the exceptional state of liberal political economy. New Political Economy, 25 (1). 107-121 . doi:10.1080/13563467.2018.1562433 ISSN 1356-3467.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2018.1562433
Abstract
This paper suggests that the liberal state in market society presents an inherent tension between liberalism and democracy. It shows how the tradition of liberal political economy provides for a constitutional form that supports specific and contestable values, relies on depoliticising the foundation of those values (especially in relation to private property and the bases of commercial society), and the exercise of authority—enshrined in the Rule of Law and backed by the force of law. The paper suggests that this has been poorly mediated in mainstream discourse, but that Moore and Lloyd’s V for Vendetta provides an astute vernacular critique of the liberal state by developing clearly recognisable allegories of Thatcherite political economy that illustrate the formal nature of justice and democracy under the liberal state form. The paper makes the specific claim that V for Vendetta can be read as a significant critique of the political economy of the liberal state, and the more general claim that cultural artefacts have the potential to develop important insights into the relationship between state, economy, and society in keeping with the traditions of the ‘new political economy’.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Liberalism, Democracy, State, The, Smith, Adam, 1723-1790, Hayek, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August), 1899-1992, Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985, V for vendetta -- Alan Moore | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | New Political Economy | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISSN: | 1356-3467 | ||||||
Official Date: | 8 January 2019 | ||||||
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Volume: | 25 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | 107-121 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/13563467.2018.1562433 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in New Political Economy on 8/01/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13563467.2018.1562433 | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 November 2018 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 July 2020 | ||||||
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