“Where Is the New Constitution?” Public Protest and Community-Building in Post–Economic Collapse Iceland
Following mass demonstrations in response to the country’s 2008 economic collapse, a dynamic civil society has emerged in Iceland focused on democratic reform through rewriting the constitution. This article demonstrates how, in the absence of the new constitution that was promised by the government...
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ftunswworks:oai:unsworks.library.unsw.edu.au:1959.4/unsworks_73167 2024-05-19T07:42:35+00:00 “Where Is the New Constitution?” Public Protest and Community-Building in Post–Economic Collapse Iceland Heffernan, Timothy 2020-06-01 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unsworks_73167 https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/bitstreams/89be6306-22b7-459b-8a18-c9efbed4cca5/download https://doi.org/10.3167/arcs.2020.060114 unknown Berghahn Books https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/conflict-and-society/6/1/arcs060114.xml http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unsworks_73167 https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/bitstreams/89be6306-22b7-459b-8a18-c9efbed4cca5/download https://doi.org/10.3167/arcs.2020.060114 open access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 CC-BY-NC-ND https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ free_to_read urn:ISSN:2164-4543 urn:ISSN:2164-4551 Conflict and Society, 6, 1, 236-254 16 Peace Justice and Strong Institutions journal article http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 2020 ftunswworks https://doi.org/10.3167/arcs.2020.060114 2024-04-24T00:12:24Z Following mass demonstrations in response to the country’s 2008 economic collapse, a dynamic civil society has emerged in Iceland focused on democratic reform through rewriting the constitution. This article demonstrates how, in the absence of the new constitution that was promised by the government, protesters are pursuing an unfinished project of reform by holding small, routinized protests founded on an ethic of empathic solidarity (samkennd). By exploring the aesthetic elements of these meetings, I argue that the protest site is being used to highlight and condemn ongoing government transgression while also providing a space to prefigure a future free of political corruption. To this end, explicit signage is shown to be reshaping political discourse while also extending (and denying) kin bonds between protesters. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales): UNSWorks Conflict and Society 6 1 236 254 |
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Following mass demonstrations in response to the country’s 2008 economic collapse, a dynamic civil society has emerged in Iceland focused on democratic reform through rewriting the constitution. This article demonstrates how, in the absence of the new constitution that was promised by the government, protesters are pursuing an unfinished project of reform by holding small, routinized protests founded on an ethic of empathic solidarity (samkennd). By exploring the aesthetic elements of these meetings, I argue that the protest site is being used to highlight and condemn ongoing government transgression while also providing a space to prefigure a future free of political corruption. To this end, explicit signage is shown to be reshaping political discourse while also extending (and denying) kin bonds between protesters. |
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