The Legal Discourse of the State of Emergency

A Paradigm of Risk

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https://doi.org/10.15517/revfil.2025.61194

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Risk, State of emergency, Costa Rica, Police State, Legal discourse

Abstract

In this research, the paradigm of the atomic bomb is used as an example to understand the changes in sociopolitical and economic dynamics caused by the emergence of imperceptible, self-threatening, and universal risks. This paradigm is utilized to demonstrate the foundation and operationalization of the state of exception under a legal discourse that employs scientific criteria as a mechanism of truth in governmental practice during exceptions. This relationship shows how risk serves as a paradigm to understand the attenuations and changes of the state of exception in Costa Rica, with respect to its scope of application and the exceptional powers of the Executive.

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  • Stuart Daniel Chavarría, University of Costa Rica (UCR)

    (stuartch1998@hotmail.com) es bachiller en Ciencias Políticas, con más de seis años de experiencia como investigador, asistente de programa y asistente de investigación en orga-nizaciones como el Observatorio de la Política Nacional (OPNA), el Observatorio de los Estados Unidos, el equipo de Protestas del Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales (IIS), el Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Políticos (CIEP) y la Cátedra Humboldt 2021.  

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2025-08-14

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Vol. 64 No. 169 (2025): Philosophy Journal

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