DECRYPTING POWER

Decrypting Power aims to reach a unifying concept that allows the connection of the fundamental theses stemming from critical legal studies Subaltern studies decolonization law and society global political economy critical geopolitics and theories of decoloniality This volume proposes that this concept is the 39encryption of power39 a category of analysis that reveals the weakness of political liberalism when it takes the place of the legitimate fundament of democracy as well as its consummate capacity to conceal new mechanisms of global power The theory of encryption of power understands that there is only a world where difference exists as the fundamental and sole order but also that such a possibility is heavily obstructed by the concentration of power in forms of oppression The world hangs on the thread of this entangled reality made up of difference and its denial of democracy and its simulations of truth and its codifications The decryption of power is then above all a theory of justice essential to radical democracy which comes fullyequipped to prevail over the conditions that deny the possibility of an egalitarian world