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Decolonial Conceptions of Territory, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination<\/h1>\n

Torsten Menge (Northwestern University Qatar); Jonathan Kwan (New York University Abu Dhabi)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Humanities Bridgeford Street Building: Room G.7<\/em><\/p>\n

Debates in political philosophy about territorial sovereignty, political community, and self- determination are often implicitly indexed to liberal democratic Western nation-states. These debates usually treat the nation-state as their normative starting point and often do not extensively address the ongoing legacies of colonialism and imperialism, even though most contemporary state boundaries were established through conquest, settler colonialism, imperialist fiat, and forced migration.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The goal of this workshop is to explore how theories that center the experiences of postcolonial societies and Indigenous peoples can contribute to and reshape these debates. For example, Adom Getachew has argued that anticolonial nationalists from the Global South did not pursue an expansion of the Westphalian regime of sovereignty but instead \u201creinvented\u201d an internationalist understanding of self-determination that inspired visions of regional and postcolonial federations and the internationalization of welfarism. Nandita Sharma and others have argued that the nationalization of state sovereignty has played a key role in perpetuating the exploitative and extractive practices of racial capitalism. Similarly, theorists of Indigenous self-determination routinely problematize and challenge dominant paradigms of sovereignty and territoriality. Glen Coulthard and others have criticized contemporary politics of recognition for reinscribing rather than rectifying settler colonial relationships between host states and Indigenous nations. Kyle Whyte\u2019s notion of \u201ccollective continuance\u201d and Jeff Corntassel\u2019s concept of \u201csustainable self- determination\u201d both represent alternative conceptualizations of Indigenous sovereignty that interweave\u2014in different ways\u2014political, cultural, ecological, and intergenerational relationships and responsibilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In this workshop, we want to explore the implications of these various strands of political thought for discussions of territory, peoplehood, political community, and self-determination. How does fore-fronting the ecological and environmental dimensions of territory, and as well as the global struggles against colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism alter our theories of peoplehood, sovereignty, and self-determination? We are also hoping to bring these challenges into conversation with recent defenses of territorial rights (by Anna Stilz, Margaret Moore, Cara Nine, etc.).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Additional possible questions include:\u00a0<\/p>\n