Theorizing sovereignty and statehood

Abstract

This panel brings together a set of papers that challenge our understandings of statehood and sovereignty. Traditional notions of sovereignty as related to a centralised state with a strong physical component in terms of violence, authority, and territory are challenged by studies of "non-state" political actors and 'virtual statehood', the importance of time in state construction and contestation, the role of cities rather than states in peace-making, and articulations of sovereignty in liminal places phenomenally lacking in statehood. Empirically, the contributions to this panel cover a wider range of geographical areas, including Europe, Middle East and Asia.

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Intersectional Temporalities of States in the Making: A Genealogical Approach.	View Paper Details
Sovereign misrecognition and international violence	View Paper Details
Contesting Sovereignties in Northern Kosovo and the Åland Islands	View Paper Details
Benedict Anderson and De Facto States: Imagined Communities on the Road to Statehood?	View Paper Details