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.
🇳🇱 Living in the Netherlands and interested in sovereignty? Come to the Utrecht Lectures in Political History with @mihatsch.bsky.social on 19 Feb, 5:15 PM at the University of Utrecht, organised by @ffsterkenburgh.bsky.social. 🗣️💬
January 26, 2026 at 12:29 PM
🇳🇱 Living in the Netherlands and interested in sovereignty? Come to the Utrecht Lectures in Political History with @mihatsch.bsky.social on 19 Feb, 5:15 PM at the University of Utrecht, organised by @ffsterkenburgh.bsky.social. 🗣️💬
Next book presentation, @mihatsch.bsky.social will speak at @aiasdk.bsky.social on February 13, 9:45–11am. For details, check the post below.
January 19, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Next book presentation, @mihatsch.bsky.social will speak at @aiasdk.bsky.social on February 13, 9:45–11am. For details, check the post below.
When we started working on Shifting Sovereignties, friends suggested that sovereignty would be an irrelevant issue and out-dated concept by the time the book is being published... we truly wish they had been right. 🤷♂️
January 18, 2026 at 8:56 PM
When we started working on Shifting Sovereignties, friends suggested that sovereignty would be an irrelevant issue and out-dated concept by the time the book is being published... we truly wish they had been right. 🤷♂️
🇻🇪🧵 What a start into the new year. It unfortunately looks like discussions around sovereignty will be with us a little longer. There is some excellent analysis on the specific case, so we leave that to our colleagues who work specifically on US and Latin American history. 1/n
January 8, 2026 at 11:11 AM
🇻🇪🧵 What a start into the new year. It unfortunately looks like discussions around sovereignty will be with us a little longer. There is some excellent analysis on the specific case, so we leave that to our colleagues who work specifically on US and Latin American history. 1/n
Join @mihatsch.bsky.social in Florence on Jan 14, 5pm at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for the first Max Weber lecture of the year.
January 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Join @mihatsch.bsky.social in Florence on Jan 14, 5pm at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for the first Max Weber lecture of the year.
Receiving another book review is a great way to end the year: many thanks to Bela Hubenstorf and Natalie Tongue for their excellent review in @globalhistories.bsky.social.
For the full review, see here: www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GH...
For the full review, see here: www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GH...
December 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Receiving another book review is a great way to end the year: many thanks to Bela Hubenstorf and Natalie Tongue for their excellent review in @globalhistories.bsky.social.
For the full review, see here: www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GH...
For the full review, see here: www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GH...
We wish you all a Very Happy New Year with many inspiring new books and lots of exciting research on sovereignty and its discontents. 🍾🥂🎉
December 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We wish you all a Very Happy New Year with many inspiring new books and lots of exciting research on sovereignty and its discontents. 🍾🥂🎉
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas. May Levia-claus bring you a lot of good books as presents. 🎅🎄🎁
December 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas. May Levia-claus bring you a lot of good books as presents. 🎅🎄🎁
We're excited to be on this list with all these excellent titles.
There's still time to get Shifting Sovereignties as a Christmas gift for yourself or for one of your loved ones. 😇
There's still time to get Shifting Sovereignties as a Christmas gift for yourself or for one of your loved ones. 😇
December 13, 2025 at 6:44 AM
We're excited to be on this list with all these excellent titles.
There's still time to get Shifting Sovereignties as a Christmas gift for yourself or for one of your loved ones. 😇
There's still time to get Shifting Sovereignties as a Christmas gift for yourself or for one of your loved ones. 😇
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...
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...
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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...
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...
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.
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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.
📢 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.
July 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📢 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...
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
July 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
📕 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...
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
📚 Still looking for some light summer beach reading? 🏖️ Get Shifting Sovereignties at an unbeatable price (for only €35.97 / £32.70 / $39.59) 🏄 with the discount code DGBSUMMER25, when ordering on the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social website. ☀️
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July 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
📚 Still looking for some light summer beach reading? 🏖️ Get Shifting Sovereignties at an unbeatable price (for only €35.97 / £32.70 / $39.59) 🏄 with the discount code DGBSUMMER25, when ordering on the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social website. ☀️
@dgb-history.bsky.social
@dgb-history.bsky.social
📽️ 🎞️ Adam Curtis is doing a series on Shifty Sovereignty it seems...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQc8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQc8...
May 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
📽️ 🎞️ Adam Curtis is doing a series on Shifty Sovereignty it seems...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQc8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQc8...
🇪🇺 Happy Europe Day!
(Europe Day marks the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, which proposed the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community.)
(Europe Day marks the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, which proposed the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community.)
May 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
🇪🇺 Happy Europe Day!
(Europe Day marks the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, which proposed the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community.)
(Europe Day marks the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, which proposed the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community.)
📅 💬 Join us in Bristol: @mihatsch.bsky.social will speak at the History Department Research Seminar on May 13, 3:30 pm, LR8, Arts Complex, 21 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB, Clifton Campus. / @uobrishistory.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
📅 💬 Join us in Bristol: @mihatsch.bsky.social will speak at the History Department Research Seminar on May 13, 3:30 pm, LR8, Arts Complex, 21 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB, Clifton Campus. / @uobrishistory.bsky.social
📅 💬 Join Michael Mulligan for a "Shifting Sovereignties" book talk in Bahrain at Euro University of Bahrain on Wednesday May 14, 3:30pm. The event is hybrid.
May 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
📅 💬 Join Michael Mulligan for a "Shifting Sovereignties" book talk in Bahrain at Euro University of Bahrain on Wednesday May 14, 3:30pm. The event is hybrid.
🇳🇱 📅 💬 Join @mihatsch.bsky.social for the first book talk in the Netherlands, at @unileiden.bsky.social on May 8, 16:15, Johan Huizinga building, Doelensteeg 16, room 2.60.
(details in the link below 👇)
(details in the link below 👇)
April 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🇳🇱 📅 💬 Join @mihatsch.bsky.social for the first book talk in the Netherlands, at @unileiden.bsky.social on May 8, 16:15, Johan Huizinga building, Doelensteeg 16, room 2.60.
(details in the link below 👇)
(details in the link below 👇)
🇪🇬 What have the Americans done for the Suez Canal which would legitimise this claim on Egyptian sovereignty?
April 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🇪🇬 What have the Americans done for the Suez Canal which would legitimise this claim on Egyptian sovereignty?
📅 💬 Join @mihatsch.bsky.social for the next book talk in Newcastle on Wednesday April 30, 4pm, room 1.04 in the Armstrong Building.
April 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
📅 💬 Join @mihatsch.bsky.social for the next book talk in Newcastle on Wednesday April 30, 4pm, room 1.04 in the Armstrong Building.
🇻🇦 As Pope Francis passes, the world looses not only a leader of one of the world's largest religious communities, but also the near-absolute ruler of one of Europe's micro-states — and the two powers of the pope are intertwined. The pope's sovereignty has changed over time and... 🧵
April 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
🇻🇦 As Pope Francis passes, the world looses not only a leader of one of the world's largest religious communities, but also the near-absolute ruler of one of Europe's micro-states — and the two powers of the pope are intertwined. The pope's sovereignty has changed over time and... 🧵
📅 🗣️ 💬 Next opportunity to hear about our book: Michael Mulligan will speak in Cairo on April 23, 6pm at the Anglican Cathedral in Zamalek.
April 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
📅 🗣️ 💬 Next opportunity to hear about our book: Michael Mulligan will speak in Cairo on April 23, 6pm at the Anglican Cathedral in Zamalek.
🎁 📘 Quote-post this post until end of April,
telling us why you want or *need* a copy of "Shifting Sovereignties".
We will pick the funniest, most convincing, or most interesting post and gift them a copy.
telling us why you want or *need* a copy of "Shifting Sovereignties".
We will pick the funniest, most convincing, or most interesting post and gift them a copy.
April 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🎁 📘 Quote-post this post until end of April,
telling us why you want or *need* a copy of "Shifting Sovereignties".
We will pick the funniest, most convincing, or most interesting post and gift them a copy.
telling us why you want or *need* a copy of "Shifting Sovereignties".
We will pick the funniest, most convincing, or most interesting post and gift them a copy.
🚨 We're now at 7000 followers here on bluesky. Who would have thought that an account centring on the academic discussion of sovereignty could become so big! Thank you all for following and please check out the book!
April 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
🚨 We're now at 7000 followers here on bluesky. Who would have thought that an account centring on the academic discussion of sovereignty could become so big! Thank you all for following and please check out the book!