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Article: The Authors Do Not Speak: A People's Reading of the ASEAN Charter
Title | The Authors Do Not Speak: A People's Reading of the ASEAN Charter |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Constitutionalisation ASEAN Charter Textual analysis People Displacement |
Issue Date | 2019 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://journals.cambridge.org/ALS |
Citation | Asian Journal of Law and Society, 2019, v. 6 n. 2, p. 229-247 How to Cite? |
Abstract | While the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Charter has been read by commentators as a constitutional document, its use of the peoples of Southeast Asia as fictional authors of the text has not been fully explored. A people’s reading of the ASEAN Charter provides a critical perspective that uncovers the elitist and statist nature of this document. A close textual analysis of the preamble reveals that these purported authors are displaced by the Heads of State as the speaking subject and creators of the new legal entity. This textual displacement transforms the constituent treaty into a state monologue as it imposes a utopian vision of capitalism on the geopolitical body of the region. Contrary to its democratic claims, the Charter has only constitutionalised reification, class structures, and the exclusion of the peoples from power. The ASEAN constitution silences its own authors. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/284922 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 0.6 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.297 |
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dc.contributor.author | BAGULAYA, JDS | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-07T09:04:24Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-07T09:04:24Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Asian Journal of Law and Society, 2019, v. 6 n. 2, p. 229-247 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2052-9015 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/284922 | - |
dc.description.abstract | While the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Charter has been read by commentators as a constitutional document, its use of the peoples of Southeast Asia as fictional authors of the text has not been fully explored. A people’s reading of the ASEAN Charter provides a critical perspective that uncovers the elitist and statist nature of this document. A close textual analysis of the preamble reveals that these purported authors are displaced by the Heads of State as the speaking subject and creators of the new legal entity. This textual displacement transforms the constituent treaty into a state monologue as it imposes a utopian vision of capitalism on the geopolitical body of the region. Contrary to its democratic claims, the Charter has only constitutionalised reification, class structures, and the exclusion of the peoples from power. The ASEAN constitution silences its own authors. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://journals.cambridge.org/ALS | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Asian Journal of Law and Society | - |
dc.rights | Asian Journal of Law and Society. Copyright © Cambridge University Press. | - |
dc.rights | This article has been published in a revised form in [Journal] [http://doi.org/XXX]. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © copyright holder. | - |
dc.subject | Constitutionalisation | - |
dc.subject | ASEAN Charter | - |
dc.subject | Textual analysis | - |
dc.subject | People | - |
dc.subject | Displacement | - |
dc.title | The Authors Do Not Speak: A People's Reading of the ASEAN Charter | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/als.2018.39 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85087071210 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 311520 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 6 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 229 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 247 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000540275300001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 2052-9015 | - |