Zones of Sovereignty? Territoriality and Spatial Governance

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Recent scholarship on sovereignty has critiqued the assumption that territorial unity, statehood, and collective self-determination smoothly go together by pointing to postcolonial, international, and global dynamics. This panel focuses on the less examined notion of territory, which has long been assumed to be a unified and discrete entity. By exploring historical and contemporary expressions of territoriality through arguments about corporate governance, governmentality, federalism, sovereignty, and land rights, this panel asks what (if anything) is distinctive about the ideas and imaginaries attached to territoriality.

Sub Unit

• Division 2: Foundations of Political Theory

Individual Presentations

• Federalism, Sovereignty, Territory and the Problem of Creating the Collective - Stephanie Wanga, London School of Economics

• Are Corporations Spatial Entities? Putting Territoriality in Its Place - Alina Utrata, Cambridge University

• Against the "Degrees of Sovereignty" Thesis - David Temin, University of Michigan

• Governmentality and the Science of Territorial Management - Benjamin Mueser, Harvard College

• The Object-Possession Trap: A Critique of Territorial Right - Anna Jurkevics, University of British Columbia

Chair

• Turkuler Isiksel Columbia University

Discussants

• Isaac Stethem Columbia University

• Loubna El Amine King's College London