Abstract:

The concept of nickel society gains its distinctive meaning within itts relativity with sovereignty. From this perspective, the concept becomes revealed as a two-faceted device which in one hand limits the authority of the sovereign and in the other hand, serves the sovereign to define its sphere of sovereignty. For the process of defining the sphere of sovereignty goes in parallel with the process of defining the subjects of the social and political sphere, the concept of civil society can be examined as a sphere of subjectivation. In this study, the concept of civil society as with the sphere of activity promised by the concept has been analyzed through the process of identifying the subjects which will carry the sovereignty and entailing these subjects with status and rights in order to reproduce the established order. The ultimate goal of the study is to test the liberatory claim of the nail society as a political device against the state sovereignty.

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