1 Stories of Autonomy on Non-Sovereign Saba: Flipping the Script of Postcolonial Resistance

Mulder, N.

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“…Alternatively, 'non-sovereignty' has been used to emphasise the inherent interdependency of human experience, 24 to encapsulate a relational normative horizon in which domination would be absent, 25 or to refer to forms of rule that do not -or cannot -adopt the sovereign-state form. 26 Finally, scholars have presented sovereign projects that explicitly pursue an alternative to the structures of authority and coordinates of paradigmatic sovereignty as 'counter-sovereignty' . 27 Unfortunately, this formulation tends to reduce resistance to a mechanical answer to domination and perpetuates binary thinking.…”

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‘Sovereignty is still the name of the game’: Indigenous theorising and strategic entanglement in Māori political discourses

Clavé-Mercier

2024

Rev. Int. Stud.

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In recent decades, sovereignty has come under increased academic scrutiny for being a Eurocentric notion antithetical to emancipatory politics, leading critical theory scholars to call for an overcoming or even abandonment of the concept. Paradoxical as it may seem, it nonetheless remains an appealing ideal for many colonised peoples. Indigenous activists and scholars have actively re-appropriated the language of sovereignty to encapsulate and advance Indigenous political aspirations. This paper discusses how Māori, Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Indigenous people, navigate their relations to the concept in their contemporary political discourses pursuing self-governance. Building on interviews with Māori leaders, scholars, and activists, it offers empirical insights into Indigenous political thought’s engagement with the idea of sovereignty. It highlights an ambivalence oscillating between rejection and rearticulation present both in Indigenous theorising and Māori politics. From an analysis of Māori contemporary conceptual strategies, this paper suggests that Yarimar Bonilla’s notion of ‘strategic entanglement’ offers a productive account to comprehend the approached Māori actors’ deployment of the sovereignty concept, and possibly that of Indigenous peoples beyond Aotearoa. This paper thus highlights the continued relevance of the sovereignty framework, both analytically and politically, to meaningfully engage with contemporary Indigenous politics.

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confidence: 99%

‘Sovereignty is still the name of the game’: Indigenous theorising and strategic entanglement in Māori political discourses

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2024

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1 Stories of Autonomy on Non-Sovereign Saba: Flipping the Script of Postcolonial Resistance

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‘Sovereignty is still the name of the game’: Indigenous theorising and strategic entanglement in Māori political discourses

‘Sovereignty is still the name of the game’: Indigenous theorising and strategic entanglement in Māori political discourses

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