Shifting Sovereignties
@shiftingsovs.bsky.social
This account is dedicated to the recently published book "Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice" by @mihatsch.bsky.social & Michael J. Mulligan. We post about new research on sovereignty & debates from news and social media.
🔊 👂 Listen to this podcast with Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel on her book :Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Resistance Within the Five Tribes, 1790–1861" newbooksnetwork.com/seeking-free...
Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, "Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Resistance Within the Five Tribes, 1790–1861" (LSU Press, 2026) - New Books Network
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📢 Call for papers by Riccardo Nanni, Marie Garin & Valérian Guillier on ecology and sovereignty in the digital realm. journals.openedition.org/terminal/12430
Ecology and sovereignty in the digital realm: Conflicts and alignment
Call for papers As sovereignty in the digital realm is the subject of renewed interest (Pohle et al., 2025), the articulation of this concept with ecological paradigms remains under-explored, despi...
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New article by Nina Sylvanus on "The Port at the Edge: Corporate Logistics and the Recalibration of Sovereignty in West Africa" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Port at the Edge: Corporate Logistics and the Recalibration of Sovereignty in West Africa | African Studies Review | Cambridge Core
The Port at the Edge: Corporate Logistics and the Recalibration of Sovereignty in West Africa
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New article by Hairuo Jiang & Wenpeng Liu on 'Beyond “symbolic authority”: Qing governance in Xizang and the construction of “ritualized sovereignty”' link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Beyond “symbolic authority”: Qing governance in Xizang and the construction of “ritualized sovereignty” - International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology
In the chapters on Tibet (Xizang) in The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 10, Late Ch’ing, 1800–1911, Joseph Fletcher, following Luciano Petech’s theory of the protectorate, argued that the Qing dynas...
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New article by Javier Muñoz-Basols & Daniel Cabeza-Campillo: "Metaphor as ideological gatekeeping: translating sovereignty in English–Spanish news coverage of the Gibraltar dispute" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Metaphor as ideological gatekeeping: translating sovereignty in English–Spanish news coverage of the Gibraltar dispute
In both translation studies and media research, there is growing recognition that news translation is not a neutral transfer of content but involves ideological mediation shaped by institutional no...
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Shifting Sovereignties@shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 2y agoToday is Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea (Sovereignty Restoration Day), a national holiday celebrated previously in the Hawaiian Kingdom and today still commemorated by the Hawaiʻi independence movement. A good day for us to join Blue Sky as is nicely marks the fuzzy nature of sovereignty.
*New publication* in the Journal of Early American History: From Being Dutch to Becoming British: The Transfer of Sovereign Power in Demerara and Essequibo and Its Impact on the Slavery System Read here: doi.org/10.1163/1877... (not OA)
From Being Dutch to Becoming British: The Transfer of Sovereign Power in Demerara and Essequibo and Its Impact on the Slavery System
Abstract This article examines how shifting sovereignties shaped the slavery system of Demerara and Essequibo between 1745 and 1817. Building on the concept of “borderless societies,” it argues that, ...
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It's always exciting to see when students use your work in their own research. So please join us in congratulating J.C. Rohaan for completing his Master’s Thesis on "Sovereignty and the Age of Rights" @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social studenttheses.uu.nl/server/api/c...
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The last two pieces I posted are both from a new special issue edited by David Pan on China and sovereignty in political theory. You can check out the intro here: philpapers.org/rec/PANIIO-2
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New article by David Pan on "China, Sovereignty, and World Order" philpapers.org/rec/PANCSA-4
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New article by Joseph W. Bendersky on "China’s Schmitt Fever" philpapers.org/rec/BENCSF-4
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New article by Dejana Kostić on "Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority" anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Economic Anthropology | SEA Journal | Wiley Online Library
Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure the...
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New chapter by Dawa Lokyitsang titled 'Decolonizing “Tibetan” and “Himalayan” Studies: Empire, Ethnicity, and Rethinking Sovereignty' academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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New article by Peyman Asadzade titled "Framing the atom: science, sovereignty, and restraint in Ali Khamenei’s nuclear discourse" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Framing the atom: science, sovereignty, and restraint in Ali Khamenei’s nuclear discourse
Since 2002, Iran's nuclear program has sparked international controversy, largely shaped by Western narratives that view Tehran's ambitions through the lens of deception and latent weaponization. T...
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New article by Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel on "The Bodily Foundations of Sovereignty: Hunger and Material Necessity in Hobbes’s Political Philosophy" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The Bodily Foundations of Sovereignty: Hunger and Material Necessity in Hobbes’s Political Philosophy - Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel, 2026
This essay argues that hunger functions as one of the primary passions driving political association in Thomas Hobbes’s materialist political philosophy. Despit...
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New article by Garrett Graddy-Lovelace & Malini Ranganathan on "Food as necropolitics: The starvation of Palestinian sovereignty and stakes of geopolitical ecology" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Food as necropolitics: The starvation of Palestinian sovereignty and stakes of geopolitical ecology
This article theorizes the deliberate starvation of Gaza as “food-as-necropolitics” and argues that this forced famine clarifies the analytical stakes…
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A number of these such as autonomous history, epistemological sovereignty, futurity, and the importance of place come up throughout this special issue.
Moritz Mihatsch@mihatsch.bsky.social · 3w agoCasper Andersen and I are really excited that our special issue on history writing after independence has now been published. In the issue, we are looking at how institutional and epistemological factors impacted the process of history writing in the aftermath of independence. 🧵
New-ish article by Federica Caso on "Settler imperial ordering: Settler colonialism and the production of hierarchical sovereignties" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Settler imperial ordering: Settler colonialism and the production of hierarchical sovereignties | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Settler imperial ordering: Settler colonialism and the production of hierarchical sovereignties - Volume 52 Issue 3
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The @journalmaritime.bsky.social has a new special issue on "The Rescuing Sovereign at Sea: Historical Perspectives on Maritime Law, Morals, and Politics". Check out the introduction by @lukasschemper.bsky.social and Henning Trüper: journals.sagepub.com/toc/ijha/38/1
International Journal of Maritime History - Volume 38, Number 1
Table of contents for International Journal of Maritime History, 38, 1
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⚽️ football meets sovereignty — a little too on the nose... and yes, don't get me started on FIFA... May the better team win tonight... wait... did I say better? I meant Belgian... May the Belgian team win tonight 🇧🇪
New article by Mina Khanlarzadeh on "Epistemic Translation of Modernity: Negotiating Science and Technology under Semi-Colonial Conditions" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Epistemic Translation of Modernity: Negotiating Science and Technology under Semi-Colonial Conditions | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
Epistemic Translation of Modernity: Negotiating Science and Technology under Semi-Colonial Conditions - Volume 68 Issue 3
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New article by Emrah Yıldız on "Kaçak Territorialization: The Syria-Turkey Border as a Palimpsest of Sovereignty" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Kaçak Territorialization: The Syria-Turkey Border as a Palimpsest of Sovereignty | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
Kaçak Territorialization: The Syria-Turkey Border as a Palimpsest of Sovereignty - Volume 68 Issue 3
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New article by Markus Virgil Hoehne & Jethro Norman on "The Paradox of Progress: Foreign Investments, Kinship, State-Building, and Conflict in Somaliland" academic.oup.com/afraf/articl...
The Paradox of Progress: Foreign Investments, Kinship, State-Building, and Conflict in Somaliland
Abstract. This article explores the complex interplay between foreign investments, state-building, and kin-based political structures and conflict in Somal
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New article by Bulelani Jili on "Pedagogies of Digital Sovereignty: The Un/Making of Dependency Through Technical Education in Kenya" academic.oup.com/afraf/articl...
Pedagogies of Digital Sovereignty: The Un/Making of Dependency Through Technical Education in Kenya
Abstract. This article examines digital sovereignty initiatives in Kenya, particularly efforts to cultivate technical skills, as an aperture through which
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New article by Helyeh Doutaghi & Bikrum Gill on "The Ramadan War and the Changing World Order: Imperial Versus Sovereign Futures" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Ramadan War and the Changing World Order: Imperial Versus Sovereign Futures
Published in Middle East Critique (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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New article by Inayat Ullah titled "Mnemonic Sovereignty and Memory Proper: (Re)Negotiating Saudi Cultural Memory through Literary Communication" brill.com/view/journal...
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New article by Hlanganani Mnguni on "Reimagining Sovereignty: The Policy Implications and Developmental Opportunities of a Borderless Africa" journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.3...
Reimagining Sovereignty: The Policy Implications and Developmental Opportunities of a Borderless Africa | African Renaissance
This paper provides a critical appraisal of the concept of a borderless Africa, evaluating its historical trajectory, legal frameworks, theoretical foundations, and practical implementation dynamics. ...
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New article by Nicole Ineese-Nash and Kaitlyn Wilcox on "Sovereign Desires: Disability, Land, and Indigenous Bodies as Sites for Justice" muse.jhu.edu/article/992704
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