Abstract
This article considers the role of failure in the strategies of people practicing ‘pseudolaw,’ an alternative model of law and of legal history that never succeeds in actual courts. I argue that the guaranteed failure of these strategies may be less important than the creative possibilities they offer pseudolaw adherents for generating an alternative temporal order in which a sense of grievance and powerlessness over the past is rectified in the present.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 2562807 |
| Pages (from-to) | 838-861 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | History and Anthropology |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 30 Sept 2025 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 30 Sept 2025 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Keywords
- Sovereign citizens
- Pseudolaw
- Failure
- Historicity
- Conspiracy theory
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