Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy: Minorities and the state of exception in a democratic polity
Published online on July 12, 2025
Abstract
Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
This article describes and conceptualizes the experiences of police actions in the performance of a politics of exception in a democratic polity. In conversation with Carl Schmitt’s authoritarian conservative understanding of “the people”, the narrative ...
This article describes and conceptualizes the experiences of police actions in the performance of a politics of exception in a democratic polity. In conversation with Carl Schmitt’s authoritarian conservative understanding of “the people”, the narrative ...