ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Contested frontiers: Understanding the metapolitics of settler-state peripheries
Between Indigenous self-determination and settler colonization lie contested frontiers, subject to metapolitics – i.e., to competition over the framing of polities. In the past, settlers, using force, domesticated frontiers. Recent decades have seen an Indigenous resurgence, rekindling metapolitics, particularly on settler-state peripheries. These contests are increasingly waged by weaponizing “constitutive principles”: Is the demos universal or divisible? Should individual or collective rights prevail? Should democracy or self-determination decide? Resolving such contests is difficult. Yet the metapolitics of today’s frontiers have escaped political-science attention. CONFRONT aims to…
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