Secession in the Formal Legalist Paradigm Implications for Contemporary Revolutionary and Popular Movements in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization 1st edition by Kenneth 9811575010 9789811575013

Secession in the Formal Legalist Paradigm Implications for Contemporary Revolutionary and Popular Movements in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization 1st edition by Kenneth E. Bauzon – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9811575010, 9789811575013

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• ISBN 10:  9811575010
• ISBN 13:  9789811575013
• Author:  Kenneth E. Bauzon

This book explores how formal-legalism, as the dominant paradigm of explanation, has sought to explain the phenomenon of secessionism among its practitioners as a problem for the modern state. This study bears how these practitioners have, over time, described, defined, and proposed to solve secessionism and related political problems within the logic of their paradigm. In the process, the book reconstructs the formalist worldview and the practitioners’ fundamental presuppositions which, to them, render comprehensible and meaningful the occurrence of events, like secession, as well as means of dealing with it. More significantly, the book exposes a debilitating flaw of formal-legalist paradigm as it fails to account for other principles of mobilization in political and social life that defy formal-legal rules such as those based on race, ethnicity, language, culture, and material factors.  Narrow adherence to textual sources and the literal approach, have led formal-legalists to miss, willfully ignore, or endorse the paradigm’s strategic association with state power, evolving since the dawn of the Enlightenment.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction

2. The Formal-Legalist Explanation

3. Critique of Formal-Legalism

4. The Return of Historical Materialism

5. Epilogue

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