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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.

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Mar 13

“This book helps chart a pathway to a global history of the moment that we are in.”
Jeremy Adelman commenting on Shifting Sovereignties at the Cambridge book launch on March 12.
@camhistory.bsky.social @intellforum.bsky.social @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social @dgb-history.bsky.social

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

Idee e letture. Sovranità in evoluzione: una storia globale del potere

Sovranità: concetto fluido, globale e storico, tra legittimità, potere e sfide tra stato, impero e governance globale. (Moritz Mihatsch e Michael Mulligan, 2025)

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 27

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 27

📢 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.

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 25

📕 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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 24

🎓 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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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...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 24

📕🎬 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...

a woman in a red dress with the words " the madness already has him " behind her

ALT: a woman in a red dress with the words " the madness already has him " behind her

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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 22

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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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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 16

🎓 new article by Mauricio Rogat on "‘Rescuing Europe’ and ‘balancing powers’: A postcolonial critique of European digital sovereignty"
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 16

📕 New book by Weronika Suchacka & Bartosz Wójcik: "Un/Framing Topographies: Multidisciplinary Surveys"
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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...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 16

🎓 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....

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 16

🎓 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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The Pacific Route: Brazil, Japan, the Paris Peace Conference, and the Meanings of Racial Equality | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core

The Pacific Route: Brazil, Japan, the Paris Peace Conference, and the Meanings of Racial Equality - Volume 67 Issue 3

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 16

🎓 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....

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...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 16

🎓 New article by Vikash Singh on "Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy: Minorities and the state of exception in a democratic polity"
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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...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 16

🎓 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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Africans Championed Free Trade: Violence, Sovereignty, and Competition in the Era of Atlantic Slave Trade | The Journal of African History | Cambridge Core

Africans Championed Free Trade: Violence, Sovereignty, and Competition in the Era of Atlantic Slave Trade - Volume 66

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 16

🎓 new article by Patrick Fournier and André Blais on "Expectations and Support for Quebec Sovereignty: What Drives What?"
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Expectations and Support for Quebec Sovereignty: What Drives What? | Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique | Cambridge Core

Expectations and Support for Quebec Sovereignty: What Drives What?

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

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.

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 16

🎓 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...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 16

📕 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...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

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...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 16

🎓 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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“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...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 16

🎓 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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The Sovereignty Is Ours: Restructuring Tribal Constitutions and a Roadmap to Reclaiming Traditional Governance - ProQuest

Explore millions of resources from scholarly journals, books, newspapers, videos and more, on the ProQuest Platform.

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Jul 16

🌐 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...

The applicability of neomedievalism, technofeudalism and sovereignty in contemporary internet governance

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