Abstract

BENAVIDES VANEGAS, Farid Samir. Sovereignty, globalization and the constitution of meaning. Justicia [online]. 2015, n.27, pp.153-166. ISSN 0124-7441.  https://doi.org/10.17081/just.3.27.325.

In this essay I wish to show how law's and the nation's loss of sovereignty have meant the emergence ofnew sites ofidentity construction and how these new identities have become global due to the loss of centrality of the Nation-State as place of meaning production. By analyzing the concept of sovereignty and its relation to the power of naming held by the State, and exercised through the law, I want to show how in a society of the spectacle that power is removed from the State and given to other places that can ensure passivity of viewers and thus the absence of resistance in the construction of meaning. This I will do by analyzing a Colombian soap opera and its handling of the concept of corruption to show legal meaning was overtaken by the one built in the media.

Keywords : Construction of identities; Globalization; Social media and Legal constitutive theory.

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