Many thanks to @alexspalinska.bsky.social for her generous review in @iajournal.bsky.social! She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...

Many thanks to @benjaminfogel.bsky.social for quoting Shifting Sovereignties in his interesting article on the Trump administration's recent actions in the Caribbean. jacobin.com/2025/10/vene...

You can get our book with a 50% halloween discount if you buy it over the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social website ( www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... ) until midnight on November 1st (presumably Central European Time). Use the discount code DGBSPOOKY50.

I have started a new job in Wenzhou. I am looking forward to learning a lot about China at a moment in time which is pivotal for China and in which China is pivotal for the world. The image shows the campus as seen from my flat. If you pass through China, come by and say hi.

Check out this review of Shifting Sovereignties in Italian: www.albengacorsara.it/2025/09/06/i...

📢 As you are all busy preparing your syllabi for next academic year, here's our offer to you: If you are assinging a chapter of Shifting Sovereignties as a class reading, we are happy to join you via Zoom to be part of a lecture or a class discussion.

📕 This looks really interesting: Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality. @universitypress.cambridge.org coming out August 2025. www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

🎓 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." link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

📕🎬 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: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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🎓 new article by Mauricio Rogat on "‘Rescuing Europe’ and ‘balancing powers’: A postcolonial critique of European digital sovereignty" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📕 New book by Weronika Suchacka & Bartosz Wójcik: "Un/Framing Topographies: Multidisciplinary Surveys" books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&...

🎓 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" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🎓 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....

🎓 New article by Vikash Singh on "Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy: Minorities and the state of exception in a democratic polity" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🎓 New article by Ana Lucia Araujo on "Africans Championed Free Trade: Violence, Sovereignty, and Competition in the Era of Atlantic Slave Trade" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🎓 new article by Patrick Fournier and André Blais on "Expectations and Support for Quebec Sovereignty: What Drives What?" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📕 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 www.proquest.com/openview/1c9...

📕 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 www.manchesterhive.com/configurable...

🎓 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/...

🎓 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' scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/pir/art...

🎓 Congrats to Crystal MIller for finishing her PhD dissertation on "The Sovereignty Is Ours: Restructuring Tribal Constitutions and a Roadmap to Reclaiming Traditional Governance" www.proquest.com/docview/3212...

🌐 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...

🎓 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...

📕 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)

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

🎓 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" brill.com/view/journal...

🎓 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....

🎓 new article by Mauro Santaniello on "Attributes of Digital Sovereignty: A Conceptual Framework" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎓 New article by Carola Freiin von Villiez titled "Why Does Sovereignty Matter, Professor Kant?" www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

🎓 new article by Nita Luci & Linda Gusia on "A miners’ hunger strike and a dried riverbed: activism at the intersection of extraction and resource sovereignty in Kosovo" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎓 new article by Alexsandro Menez on "The Construction of Discovery: Crónica de Guiné, the Treaty of Tordesillas, and the Foundations of Iberian Colonial Sovereignty (1453–1494)" publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/co...

🎓 New chapter by Yvonne P. Sherwood and Melodi Wynne on "Visiting the mountain: how property gets in the way of Indigenous sovereignty" www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

🎓 new chapter by Luca Cacciolatti and Soo Hee Lee on "Food sovereignty, stakeholder engagement, and co-creation in alternative food networks: a post-Schumpeterian economics perspective" www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

🎓 new article by Septinus Saa on "Implementation of Indigenous Food Strategies and the Role of Local Wisdom in Papua's Food Sovereignty" ojs.arbain.co.id/index.php/si...

🎓 new article by Anna Vangelatou on ‘British Corporate Imperialism and Sovereignty in Interwar Greece: The Power and Traction Question’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎓 new article by Artur Ishkhanyan on "Governing AI across borders: corporate power, state sovereignty and global regulation" www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

🎓 new article by Diane E. Davis & Frank I. Müller on "Deconstructing sovereignty: (non-)life, territorial power and the everyday ecologies of hybrid governance" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We rarely post MA dissertations but considering how few people substantiate Cold War sovereignty, here's Maximilian Stefan Engartner on ambiguous Cold War Sovereignty in Germany and Finland www.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

🎓 new article by Barbara Warnock on "The operation of the “first bailout” the social and Economic impact of the League of Nations’ programme for Austrian reconstruction, 1922–26" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🎓 Congratulations to Alessandro Volpi for finishing his dissertation on "Climate Sovereignty. Political Authority Amidst the Environmental Crisis" iris.unisr.it/handle/20.50...

🎓 new article by Claudio Alberto Dávila-Cervantes, Nelson Arteaga-Botello & Ana Melisa Pardo-Montaño on "Geographies of Violence: Necro-Spaces, Homicidal Patterns, and Sovereignty in Mexico" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🎓 new article by Eva Magdalena Stambøl, Almamy Sylla & Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde on "Anticolonial Imaginaries in Mali: The Longue Durée of Sovereignty, Security, and Geopolitics" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎓 New article by Klejda Mulaj on "Cascades of violence to genocide: sovereignty, nationalism and the predicament of the Rohingya of Myanmar" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📕 Check out this new book by Michael Allen on "Gandhi’s Popular Sovereignty of Truth: Devotional Democracy" link.springer.com/book/10.1007...