@article{ref1,
title="Vigilantism and political vision",
journal="Washington University review of philosophy",
year="2022",
author="Siegel, Susanna",
volume="2",
number="",
pages="1-42",
abstract="Vigilantism, commonly glossed as &quot;taking the law into one's own hands,&quot; has been analyzed differently in studies of comparative politics, ethnography, history, and legal theory, but has attracted little attention from philosophers. What can &quot;taking the law into one's hands&quot; amount to? How does vigilantism relate to mobs, protests, and self-defense? I distinguish between several categories of vigilantism, identify the questions they are most useful for addressing, and offer an analysis on which vigilantism is a kind of political initiative done for the sake of enacting an immediate realignment of power in a polity in accordance with a political vision. In addition to defining a special kind of political initiative, my analysis helps us understand a range of rhetorical powers related to vigilantism, including some of the ways that attributions of vigilantism can mask instances of self-defense, and attributions of self-defense can mask instances of vigilantism.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2766-4473",
doi="10.5840/wurop202222",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/wurop202222"
}