South Atlantic Quarterly 122:2

Contributors to this special issue explore the concept of destituent power, which aims to grasp the process of dismantling state and economic power without reconstituting them anew. The authors join a new effort to rethink emancipatory political transformation along post-foundational lines—an effort that, they argue, began with the Argentine uprising of 2001. Contrary to the prevailing modernist discourse that envisions revolution as a cyclical contest between established powers and constituent subjects seeking to replace them, the authors seek to articulate a process wherein the cancellation of sovereignty would coincide directly with unforeseen dimensions of collective life.
Contributors: Timothy Brennan, Ana Cristina González-Vélez, María Alicia Gutiérrez, Isabel Cristina Jaramillo-Sierra, Aaron Kamugisha, Penny Koutrolikou, Amy Krauss, Anna-Louise Milne, MariaLuisa Palumbo, Alexandra Reza, AbdouMaliq Simone, Barbara Sutton, Giulia Torino, Luz Vacarezza, Musab Younis