Antal, Attila
(2022)
The Climate and Ecological Emergency in the Era of State of Exceptions: The Hungarian Case.
In:
State of Exception, Populisms and the Militarization of Politics in the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Federal University of Pernambuco.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
We live in the era of overlapping state of exceptions: the climate and ecological emergency, the permanent crisis of global capitalism, migration crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on the Hungarian political regime, this paper has investigated, how and why exceptional measures restructure our life. Upon the case of the Hungarian authoritarian populist regime, municipal experiences, and other contemporary tendencies, three main forms of state of exceptions will be investigated here: (1) the exceptionality of the migration crisis of 2015; (2) the climate emergencies declared by local governments, which are rather political declarations and not legally accepted versions of exceptional measures; (3) the overlapping forms of COVID-19-related emergencies. I will argue here that the main outcome of the exceptional measures is the rise of a new executive power and will demonstrate how heavily authoritarian regimes rely on the state of exception. Amplifying the authoritarian tendencies and the abusive application of the exceptional legal order, the COVID-19 crisis basically proved that it is worth considering institutionalizing the climate and ecological emergency as a tool in the struggle of resolving the planetary crisis of our time.
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