Sovereignty Lab
The core constituency of this group is UB faculty and students working on themes such as political legitimacy, empire, indigenous sovereignties, natural law, social contracts and their rupture, mixed-sovereignty models, tyranny, resistance, transfers of power, disenfranchisement, confidence in institutions, and so forth.
About the Sovereignty Research Workshop
This research workshop reaches out to students and illustrates how the Humanities and Social Sciences can tell a cohesive story about the crisis at our southern border, what Standing Rock means for the control of territory and resources, what the social contract means in a period of increasing surveillance, what sovereignty and executive force exert onto the bodies of people of color, and much more.
We hope to do what the Humanities have always done, which is to ask the questions that no one is asking – like asking what precisely are we resisting against when we hash tag #resist? What does it mean to confront power that must justify itself to itself alone? And do western ideas of shared sovereignty in the democratic project have the universal reach they pretend to?
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