1st Edition

Sovereignty through Practice Multiscalarity, Reflexivity, and Interdisciplinarity

Edited By Elia Bescotti, Jon-Wyatt Matlack Copyright 2025
286 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores how actors practise sovereignty as a force in a multiscalar context. Among the various power structures that perform sovereignty, such as the head of state, a legislative body, or the military, one aspect is clear: the practice of sovereignty relies upon people at multiple levels - better portrayed as scales - of authority. This book focuses on actors – the people who bring... Read more

Introduction: Sovereignty through Practice, Elia Bescotti and Jon-Wyatt Matlack  1. Sovereignty, Governance, and Violence in Urban Latin America, Viviana García Pinzón  2. Want-to-Be-States: Practices of Sovereignty in Kurdistan-Iraq and Abkhazia since 1991, Silvia Nicola and Tim Kucharzewski  3. Infrastructures for Sovereignty: Digital Platforms in Everyday Life, Yuhan Wang  4. The Decision is His Alone: The Latent Sovereignty of NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Jon-Wyatt Matlack  5. Localised Sovereignty: The Borderland of Teschen Silesia in Times of Upheaval (1918–20), Matthäus Wehowski  6. Central Banking in Russia: The Politics of Monetary Sovereignty and the Resilience to Financial Sanctions, Cornelia Sahling  7. The Russian World, the Great Past, and the External Threat: Deconstructing Vladimir Putin’s Discourse on Sovereignty (1999–2022), Anna Ivanova  8. The People, the Parliament, and the Ultimate Power: Competing Political Party Discourses on Sovereignty in Post-Brexit Scotland, Nelly Gérard  9. Playing for Sovereignty: Games Issued by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance and Their Role in Memory Politics, Matthias Melcher  Section of Common Chapters: Reflexivity and the Practice of Sovereignty in Research  10. Sovereignty in the Field: Experiences and Reflections on Doing Field Research in Contested Settings, Viviana García Pinzón, Tim Kucharzewski and Silvia Nicola  11. Information of the State: Reflections on Research Challenges in Archives and Government Statistics, Jon-Wyatt Matlack, Matthäus Wehowski and Cornelia Sahling  12. Studying Discursive Practices of Sovereignty, Anna Ivanova, Matthias Melcher and Nelly Gérard

Biography

Elia Bescotti is a doctoral student at Université Libre de Bruxelles, and a doctoral associate at the Graduate School of East and Southeast Studies, University of Regensburg.

Jon-Wyatt Matlack is a doctoral candidate at the University of Regensburg and a research fellow at the Leibniz ScienceCampus in Regensburg.