Before and after borders: The nomadic challenge to sovereign territoriality

MacKay, Joseph; Levin, Jamie; Carvalho, Gustavo de Azevedo; Cavoukian, Kristin; Cuthbert, Ross N.

doi:10.1057/ip.2013.24

Cited by 13 publications

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“…While it is increasingly difficult to live outside of state strictures, many SAGER -5 11 people such as the houseless are partially invisible to the state, sometimes by choice. Nomads also have an uneasy relationship with states, in part because they offer a non-territorial mode of life and model of governance (MacKay, Levin, de Carvalho, Cavoukian, & Cuthbert, 2014;Ringmar, 2020).…”

Section: Why Methodological Nationalism Leads Us Astraymentioning

confidence: 99%

Political philosophy beyond methodological nationalism

Sager

2021

Philosophy Compass

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Interdisciplinary work on the nature of borders and society has enriched and complicated our understanding of democracy, community, distributive justice, and migration. It reveals the cognitive bias of methodological nationalism, which has distorted normative political thought on these topics, uncritically and often unconsciously adapting and reifying state‐centered conceptions of territory, space, and community. Under methodological nationalism, state territories demarcate the boundaries of the political; society is conceived as composed of immobile, culturally homogenous citizens, each belonging to one and only one state; and the distribution of goods is analyzed according to a stark opposition between the domestic and the international. This article describes how methodological nationalism has shaped central debates in political philosophy and introduces recent work that helps dispel this bias.

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Political philosophy beyond methodological nationalism

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2021

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“…Nevertheless, the case of the Kaw esqar does show how Indigenous groups are able to contest their exclusion from and movement across traditional marine spaces by exerting their agency through instruments of state territorialisation. These observations are also not unique (see also MacKay et al, 2014). For example, Satiza´bal and Batterbury (2018) show how Afro-descendant communities of the Pacific Coast of Colombia were also able to regain control over their maritory through, rather than in opposition to, the creation of a state-led Marine Protected Area.…”

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“…Historically, external territorialisation has arguably had the most dramatic impact on the mobility of Indigenous communities (Barfield, 2020). However, contemporary limitations relate more often than not to the internal territorialisation of private and (protected) public lands and waters (Levin, 2020;MacKay J, Levin J, de Carvalho G, et al, 2014).…”

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Contested mobilities in the maritory: Implications of boundary formation in a nomadic space

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Lamers

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Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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The mobility of nomadic Indigenous people has been systematically constrained over time by states seeking control over peripheral spaces and people. This is evident in the case of the Kawésqar nomadic ‘people of the sea’ who have been subject to a century of attempts by the Chilean state to spatially fix their movements over both their terrestrial territories and marine ‘maritories’. In this paper, we show how Indigenous groups like the Kawésqar can challenge and even regain partial control over their maritory by using spatial instruments of the state. We argue that by using these instruments to remobilise, the Kawésqar have been empowered to demobilise other groups and marine related sectors, such as aquaculture. These findings can reorient public policy to be more sensitive to Indigenous space and mobility. Instead of focusing exclusively on the establishment of spatial boundaries to exclude Indigenous communities, they can be used as a means of empowering these communities to exert control over actors and sectors seeking to limit their mobility.

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“…A parallel argument is presented by Wendt and Duvall (2008 , pp. 620–622), who suggest that the potential existence of extraterrestrial life, in the form of UFOs, threatens the state both materially and ontologically, resulting in a ‘UFO taboo’ in which UFOs are effectively ignored by authorities” ( McKay et al, 2014 , 117n11).…”

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The “UFO Taboo” Is What IR Theorists Make of It: “Sovereignty and the UFO” in Citational Perspective

Murphy

2023

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political

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In 2008, Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall published an article titled “Sovereignty and the UFO,” which demonstrated how a UFO taboo in international relations theory upheld an anthropocentric model of sovereignty. At a distance of a decade and a half, this review evaluates the validity of the claim that a UFO taboo exists in international relations, and explores the citational practices that influence the prestige economy of the field. The article employs a methodology of interpretive scientometrics informed by methodological debates in political science and international, as well as theoretical debates in actor-network theory. After testing the claim of the UFO taboo in a comparative perspective, the article investigates the strategies of association (weak and strong) present in the citations of “Sovereignty and the UFO.” In addition to a revaluation of core claims in an often-read but less-often-cited article in international relations theory, this article provides important insights into how citation works in the discipline of international relations.

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Before and after borders: The nomadic challenge to sovereign territoriality

Cited by 13 publications

References 47 publications

Political philosophy beyond methodological nationalism

Political philosophy beyond methodological nationalism

Contested mobilities in the maritory: Implications of boundary formation in a nomadic space

The “UFO Taboo” Is What IR Theorists Make of It: “Sovereignty and the UFO” in Citational Perspective

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