Shifting Sovereignties

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📕 This looks really interesting: Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality. @universitypress.cambridge.org coming out August 2025.
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A Sickened Sovereignty This work explores the aftermath of Australia’s October 2023 referendum, where a majority voted against enshrining an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the Constitution. The rejection highlighte...

🎓 For a psychoanalytical perspective on sovereignty, check out this chapter by Julie Macken on "the aftermath of Australia’s October 2023 referendum, where a majority voted against enshrining an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the Constitution."
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📕🎬 Apropos summer readings... if you are interested in sovereignty in the Wheel of Time novels / Amazon tv series, check out this article by Jeremy Christensen and Eric Holmes:
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Shifting Sovereignties Shifting Sovereignties explores practical manifestations of sovereignty from antiquity to the Anthropocene. Taking a global-history perspective and centring Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, it desta...

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🎓 new article by Mauricio Rogat on "‘Rescuing Europe’ and ‘balancing powers’: A postcolonial critique of European digital sovereignty"
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Un/Framing Topographies The volume is a collection of essays by acclaimed and widely published international scholars of 'space' working within different disciplines, such as social sciences, history, applied sciences and me...

📕 New book by Weronika Suchacka & Bartosz Wójcik: "Un/Framing Topographies: Multidisciplinary Surveys"
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🎓 New article by Louis Stockwell on "Contesting regional sovereignty from below: the unsettling effect of unilateral independence and autonomy referendums"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎓 New article by Marc Hertzman on "The Pacific Route: Brazil, Japan, the Paris Peace Conference, and the Meanings of Racial Equality"
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Nested Borders: Migration, Sovereignty and Liminality along the Green Line in Cyprus Cyprus’ 2004 accession to the European Union (EU) transformed the significance of the ‘Green Line’ – the United Nations (UN)-monitored buffer zone that has separated Turkish and Greek Cypriots sinc...

🎓 New article by Seçil Dağtaș & Suzan Ilcan on "Nested Borders: Migration, Sovereignty and Liminality along the Green Line in Cyprus"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy: Minorities and the state of exception in a democratic polity - Vikash Singh, 2025 This article describes and conceptualizes the experiences of police actions in the performance of a politics of exception in a democratic polity. In conversatio...

🎓 New article by Vikash Singh on "Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy: Minorities and the state of exception in a democratic polity"
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🎓 New article by Ana Lucia Araujo on "Africans Championed Free Trade: Violence, Sovereignty, and Competition in the Era of Atlantic Slave Trade"
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🎓 new article by Patrick Fournier and André Blais on "Expectations and Support for Quebec Sovereignty: What Drives What?"
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Schmitt on Sovereignty and the State of Exception This book illuminates Carl Schmitt’s role in theorising the ‘state of exception’ as he engaged with questions of German federalism.

📕 new book by Christopher Adair-Toteff discussing "Schmitt on Sovereignty and the State of Exception"
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

🎓 New LLM dissertation by Cynthia Mariyam John looking making the case for a Collective Management Organization for Intellectual Property and Cultural Sovereignty in the Arab Region
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📕 new chapter by Sara Halpern on "Statelessness, national sovereignty, and German and Austrian refugees in China during and after the treaty port era" in a volume discussing European Refugees in China and the Pacific in the period of the Second World War
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Holocaust Memory and the Universal Sovereignty of the Liberal Democratic State Despite the large body of scholarship on global Holocaust memorialization and recent writing on the West’s preoccupation with antisemitism, the interconnection between the two issues has been large...

🎓 new article by James Renton on "Holocaust Memory and the Universal Sovereignty of the Liberal Democratic State"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎓 interesting theoretical intervention by Behnam Amini on "National Colonialism: Nation-State, Colonialism and Colonisation of Kurdistan"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“Every New Synagogue Is Both a Religious and a Security Fortress”: Synagogues in Israeli Urban Internal Frontiers as Symbols of Sovereignty Abstract. This article focuses on synagogues in the urban internal frontier in Israel following the Nakba/1948 war. After the war, several initiations were held to demonstrate sovereignty in these urb...

🎓 new article by David Borabeck titled '“Every New Synagogue Is Both a Religious and a Security Fortress”: Synagogues in Israeli Urban Internal Frontiers as Symbols of Sovereignty'
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🎓 Congrats to Crystal MIller for finishing her PhD dissertation on "The Sovereignty Is Ours: Restructuring Tribal Constitutions and a Roadmap to Reclaiming Traditional Governance"
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🌐 new policy paper by Gergely Gosztonyi and Dorina Gyetván titled "The applicability of neomedievalism, technofeudalism and sovereignty in contemporary internet governance"
ethicalspace.pubpub.org/pub/wuj8exjl...

Broadening the debate: The Attlee Government, untrammelled sovereignty, and socialistic reasons for resisting the European Convention on Human Rights; 1949-1950

🎓 New article by Sanjit Nagi titled "Broadening the debate: The Attlee Government, untrammelled sovereignty, and socialistic reasons for resisting the European Convention on Human Rights; 1949-1950"
search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3...

Christian Perspectives on the Role of the State, Justice, and Taxation This book demonstrates the depth and influence of Christian ethical thinking on fair taxation and distributive justice.

📕 new edited volume by Robert F. van Brederode on "Christian Perspectives on the Role of the State, Justice, and Taxation"
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
(including two chapters which deal explicitly with sovereignty)

From Yam to Sponge | 35 | Recent Controversies around Nepal's Sovereig Nepal is often referred to as a “yam between two boulders” to describe its position between China and India. As recent developments along the borders show, both

🎓 new chapter by Matthäus Rest on :From Yam to Sponge: Recent Controversies around Nepal's Sovereignty, Territory and Hydropower"
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

A real kerfuffle | 9 | Sovereignty and intervention beyond the Pale in The 2019 RPG Disco Elysium is often hailed as one of the most intricate political video games of all time, with due reason. There is much fertile material for

🎓 New chapter on sovereignty in the computer game Disco Elysium by James Gilley
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

🎓 new article by Muhamet Brajshorion "Performing Sovereignty: Kosovo and the Strategies of International Integration for States with Limited Recognition"
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Strategic Resource Utilisation in De Facto States: Rojava’s Journey Towards Sovereignty This study examines the role of oil governance in shaping the legitimacy and external relations of de facto states, focusing on Rojava as a case study. Using an inductive case study approach, the r...

🎓 new article by Shwan Jamal Azeez on "Strategic Resource Utilisation in De Facto States: Rojava’s Journey Towards Sovereignty"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....