 |
Indigenous
Peoples Specialty Group
Sponsored Session
2008 Annual Meeting
Association of American Geographers
Boston, Massachusettes, April 15-19 2008
|
| Title: | Geography of Sovereignty |
| Description: | Sovereignty is increasingly being conceptualised as both historically contingent, and socially and culturally constructed. These approaches have enabled the conceptual disentangling of sovereignty, territory and statehood, and have opened up theoretical possibilities for extra-territorial sovereign polities, spaces of sovereign exception and multiple, overlapping sovereignties. Rather than focusing on abstract, theoretical discussions regarding the (changing) nature of sovereignty, this session aims to explore examples of how sovereignty is played out on the ground through performance, practice and materiality, the moments and places where sovereignty can be located, and how we can go about researching this ambiguous institution/discourse/set of practices. This session will focus on both elite constructions of sovereignty and everyday narratives, and will not deal exclusively with state sovereignty, but will also explore cases of de facto as well de jure sovereignty. |
| Anticipated Attendance: | 100 |
| Organizers: | |
| Chairs: | |
| Participants: | | Presenter: | Bertie Mandelblatt, New England to Martinique: Mercier de la Rivière, free trade and food provision during the Seven Years War. |
| Presenter: | Emily Gilbert, The Politics of Sovereignty and the Canadian Nation-State. |
| Presenter: | Suzanne Elizabeth Mills, Media representations of an Aboriginal claim to sovereignty in Canada. |
| Presenter: | Bronwen Edwards, dressing up for the queen: designing the parade for the 1953 coronation. |
| Presenter: | Fiona McConnell, Constructing de facto sovereignty: Tibetan settlements in India. |
|
| Sponsorships: | Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
|
|