Narrative Boundaries: Constitutional struggles in an age of polarization
Edited by Rodrigo Cordero and Raimundo Frei
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 23:5 (2024) vi, 149 pp.
Raimundo Frei
List of John Benjamins publications for which Raimundo Frei plays a role.
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2024 Demarcating rights in divided social worlds: An introduction to the moral economy of constitutional struggles Narrative Boundaries: Constitutional struggles in an age of polarization, Cordero, Rodrigo and Raimundo Frei (eds.), pp. 633–652 | Introduction
This article outlines a framework for studying practices of boundary-making as pivotal to the various ways in which “rights” become objects of contention and sources of narrativization in contemporary constitutional democracies. Firstly, we reconsider the dynamics of boundary-making that… read more
2024 Claims of ownership, claims of dignity: Moral narratives on the right to housing in Chile’s constitutional referendum Narrative Boundaries: Constitutional struggles in an age of polarization, Cordero, Rodrigo and Raimundo Frei (eds.), pp. 723–746 | Article
In September 2022, Chileans overwhelmingly rejected the draft of a new constitution to replace the inherited from Pinochet’s dictatorship. Existing explanations attribute the failure to a mixture of ill-designed procedures, political dynamics, and ideological distortions and fake news. However,… read more