Denying the State Through Law

在过去的几十年里，地球仪上的许多国家都出现了断然拒绝国家权威和合法性的运动。我将调查那些基于与主流法律的话语完全不同的对法律的理解而认为国家事实上不存在的群体。这些运动中的许多人理解真正的法律和主权权力来自替代性的法律的权威，并试图在此基础上组织反主权。本研究将以访谈与参与观察为基础，探讨法律作为国家权力的媒介，以及作为激进政治工具的吸引力。法律的人类学家研究了国家法律是如何塑造人们对日常生活的思考方式的，法律是如何在社会中占据主导地位的。他们还研究了法律如何支持国家合法性的产生。本研究将通过调查未实现的情况来调查这些过程。它将批判性地评估法律如何参与社会权力结构的稳定和稳定。

In the last decades, countries across the globe have seen movements which categorically reject claims to authority and legitimacy by the state. I will investigate groups that view the state as factually non-existent based on an understanding of law that is entirely different from mainstream legal discourse. Many in these movements understand true law and sovereign power to emerge from alternative legal authorities and attempt to organize counter sovereignties based on such. Based on interviews and participant observation, this research will investigate the attraction of law as a medium of state contestation, and as a vehicle for radical politics. Legal anthropologists have investigated how state law comes to shape the way people think about their daily life, how law achieves dominance in society. They have also investigated how law supports the generation of legitimacy by the state. This research will investigate these processes by investigating instances where it is not achieved. It will critically evaluate how law partakes both in the stabilization but also contestation of societal configurations of power.