Political Worlds Cluster: Work in Progress Discussion "Rethinking the geographies of self-determination"
Shona Loong (University of Zurich), Alex Manby (University of Oxford), and Fiona McConnell (University of Oxford)
This paper makes the case for a geographical analysis of self-determination. In setting out how and why self-determination is an inherently spatial right and principle, we bring literature on self-determination into dialogue with scholarship on postcolonial geographies and relational space, so as to propose a geographical approach to self-determination. By examining how three communities – the Nagas, the Tibetans, and the Karen – have recently re-articulated self-determination, we illustrate how self-determination is a relationally constituted claim, informed by interactions across various sites and scales, even as it is claimed with reference to a homeland. Please email the coordinator if you would like a copy of the paper to be discussed ahead of attending this session.
Date: 22 November 2022, 11:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Forest room
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organiser: Political Worlds cluster
Organiser contact email address: sneha.krishnan@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Not required
Cost: Free
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Chris White, Donna Palfreman