ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Existing analytical approaches are poorly equipped to make sense of political entities that aspire sovereign statehood and present themselves accordingly, but which lack a recognised status. The prevalent scholarship struggles to categorize sovereignty-aspiring entities. This project departs from the extant literature in that it places the unsettled nature of sovereignty-aspiring entities – their defiance of categories – at the heart of the equation. Rather than resolving the interpretative “to be of not to be” dilemmas around their status and activities, the inherent contingency of separatist politics becomes our central vantage point. Turning to political performativity and aesthetics,…
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