Rodrigo Cordero

List of John Benjamins publications in which Rodrigo Cordero is involved.

Title

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.

Articles

Cordero, Rodrigo and Raimundo Frei 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

Frei, Raimundo, Rodrigo Cordero, Benjamín Lang, Juan Rozas and Juan Pablo Rodríguez 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