Shifting Sovereignties
@shiftingsovs.bsky.social
This account is dedicated to the recently published book "Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice" by @mihatsch.bsky.social & Michael J. Mulligan.
We post about new research on sovereignty & debates from news and social media.
We post about new research on sovereignty & debates from news and social media.
Many thanks to @alexspalinska.bsky.social for her generous review in @iajournal.bsky.social!
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Many thanks to @alexspalinska.bsky.social for her generous review in @iajournal.bsky.social!
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
You can get our book with a 50% halloween discount if you buy it over the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social website ( www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... ) until midnight on November 1st (presumably Central European Time). Use the discount code DGBSPOOKY50.
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
You can get our book with a 50% halloween discount if you buy it over the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social website ( www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... ) until midnight on November 1st (presumably Central European Time). Use the discount code DGBSPOOKY50.
📢 As you are all busy preparing your syllabi for next academic year, here's our offer to you: If you are assinging a chapter of Shifting Sovereignties as a class reading, we are happy to join you via Zoom to be part of a lecture or a class discussion.
July 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📢 As you are all busy preparing your syllabi for next academic year, here's our offer to you: If you are assinging a chapter of Shifting Sovereignties as a class reading, we are happy to join you via Zoom to be part of a lecture or a class discussion.
📕 This looks really interesting: Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality. @universitypress.cambridge.org coming out August 2025.
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
July 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
📕 This looks really interesting: Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality. @universitypress.cambridge.org coming out August 2025.
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
📚 Still looking for some light summer beach reading? 🏖️ Get Shifting Sovereignties at an unbeatable price (for only €35.97 / £32.70 / $39.59) 🏄 with the discount code DGBSUMMER25, when ordering on the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social website. ☀️
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July 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
📚 Still looking for some light summer beach reading? 🏖️ Get Shifting Sovereignties at an unbeatable price (for only €35.97 / £32.70 / $39.59) 🏄 with the discount code DGBSUMMER25, when ordering on the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social website. ☀️
@dgb-history.bsky.social
@dgb-history.bsky.social
📽️ 🎞️ Adam Curtis is doing a series on Shifty Sovereignty it seems...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQc8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQc8...
May 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
📽️ 🎞️ Adam Curtis is doing a series on Shifty Sovereignty it seems...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQc8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQc8...
🇪🇺 Happy Europe Day!
(Europe Day marks the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, which proposed the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community.)
(Europe Day marks the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, which proposed the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community.)
May 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
🇪🇺 Happy Europe Day!
(Europe Day marks the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, which proposed the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community.)
(Europe Day marks the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, which proposed the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community.)
📅 💬 Join us in Bristol: @mihatsch.bsky.social will speak at the History Department Research Seminar on May 13, 3:30 pm, LR8, Arts Complex, 21 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB, Clifton Campus. / @uobrishistory.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
📅 💬 Join us in Bristol: @mihatsch.bsky.social will speak at the History Department Research Seminar on May 13, 3:30 pm, LR8, Arts Complex, 21 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB, Clifton Campus. / @uobrishistory.bsky.social
📅 💬 Join Michael Mulligan for a "Shifting Sovereignties" book talk in Bahrain at Euro University of Bahrain on Wednesday May 14, 3:30pm. The event is hybrid.
May 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
📅 💬 Join Michael Mulligan for a "Shifting Sovereignties" book talk in Bahrain at Euro University of Bahrain on Wednesday May 14, 3:30pm. The event is hybrid.
🇳🇱 📅 💬 Join @mihatsch.bsky.social for the first book talk in the Netherlands, at @unileiden.bsky.social on May 8, 16:15, Johan Huizinga building, Doelensteeg 16, room 2.60.
(details in the link below 👇)
(details in the link below 👇)
April 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🇳🇱 📅 💬 Join @mihatsch.bsky.social for the first book talk in the Netherlands, at @unileiden.bsky.social on May 8, 16:15, Johan Huizinga building, Doelensteeg 16, room 2.60.
(details in the link below 👇)
(details in the link below 👇)
🇪🇬 What have the Americans done for the Suez Canal which would legitimise this claim on Egyptian sovereignty?
April 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🇪🇬 What have the Americans done for the Suez Canal which would legitimise this claim on Egyptian sovereignty?
📅 💬 Join @mihatsch.bsky.social for the next book talk in Newcastle on Wednesday April 30, 4pm, room 1.04 in the Armstrong Building.
April 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
📅 💬 Join @mihatsch.bsky.social for the next book talk in Newcastle on Wednesday April 30, 4pm, room 1.04 in the Armstrong Building.
🇻🇦 As Pope Francis passes, the world looses not only a leader of one of the world's largest religious communities, but also the near-absolute ruler of one of Europe's micro-states — and the two powers of the pope are intertwined. The pope's sovereignty has changed over time and... 🧵
April 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
🇻🇦 As Pope Francis passes, the world looses not only a leader of one of the world's largest religious communities, but also the near-absolute ruler of one of Europe's micro-states — and the two powers of the pope are intertwined. The pope's sovereignty has changed over time and... 🧵
📅 🗣️ 💬 Next opportunity to hear about our book: Michael Mulligan will speak in Cairo on April 23, 6pm at the Anglican Cathedral in Zamalek.
April 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
📅 🗣️ 💬 Next opportunity to hear about our book: Michael Mulligan will speak in Cairo on April 23, 6pm at the Anglican Cathedral in Zamalek.
🎁 📘 Quote-post this post until end of April,
telling us why you want or *need* a copy of "Shifting Sovereignties".
We will pick the funniest, most convincing, or most interesting post and gift them a copy.
telling us why you want or *need* a copy of "Shifting Sovereignties".
We will pick the funniest, most convincing, or most interesting post and gift them a copy.
April 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🎁 📘 Quote-post this post until end of April,
telling us why you want or *need* a copy of "Shifting Sovereignties".
We will pick the funniest, most convincing, or most interesting post and gift them a copy.
telling us why you want or *need* a copy of "Shifting Sovereignties".
We will pick the funniest, most convincing, or most interesting post and gift them a copy.
🚨 We're now at 7000 followers here on bluesky. Who would have thought that an account centring on the academic discussion of sovereignty could become so big! Thank you all for following and please check out the book!
April 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
🚨 We're now at 7000 followers here on bluesky. Who would have thought that an account centring on the academic discussion of sovereignty could become so big! Thank you all for following and please check out the book!
🛜 🗣️ 💬 We're spekaing later today to the history students of the University of Lodz online. Join us if you can!
www.facebook.com/events/60512...
www.facebook.com/events/60512...
April 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🛜 🗣️ 💬 We're spekaing later today to the history students of the University of Lodz online. Join us if you can!
www.facebook.com/events/60512...
www.facebook.com/events/60512...
Check out these impressions from the book talk today at the British University in Egypt. Thank you to the team in political science for hosting the event, thank you to everyone who came, and a special thank you to Professor Hadia and Professor Amany.
www.instagram.com/reel/DIMHmQr...
www.instagram.com/reel/DIMHmQr...
April 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Check out these impressions from the book talk today at the British University in Egypt. Thank you to the team in political science for hosting the event, thank you to everyone who came, and a special thank you to Professor Hadia and Professor Amany.
www.instagram.com/reel/DIMHmQr...
www.instagram.com/reel/DIMHmQr...
🚨 🗣️ 💬 The next book talk will be in Cairo 🇪🇬 at the British University in Egypt on April 8 at 11am.
April 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
🚨 🗣️ 💬 The next book talk will be in Cairo 🇪🇬 at the British University in Egypt on April 8 at 11am.
🌎 There's so much happening in that sentence... but just because Trump uses sovereignty mostly as an empty signifier doesn't mean sovereignty isn't an important analytical category when thinking about Trump.
March 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🌎 There's so much happening in that sentence... but just because Trump uses sovereignty mostly as an empty signifier doesn't mean sovereignty isn't an important analytical category when thinking about Trump.
🎓 New book by Blaire Morseau @blairemorseau.bsky.social on "Mapping Neshnabé Futurity: Celestial Currents of Sovereignty in Potawatomi Skies, Lands, and Waters" (with a fantastic cover).
uapress.arizona.edu/book/mapping...
uapress.arizona.edu/book/mapping...
March 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🎓 New book by Blaire Morseau @blairemorseau.bsky.social on "Mapping Neshnabé Futurity: Celestial Currents of Sovereignty in Potawatomi Skies, Lands, and Waters" (with a fantastic cover).
uapress.arizona.edu/book/mapping...
uapress.arizona.edu/book/mapping...
🚨 @mihatsch.bsky.social had a one-hour conversation about Shifting Sovereignties with Chris Padgett and Josh Weiner of the @hist-against-grain.bsky.social podcast.
Many thanks to Chris and Josh for the invitation and all their efforts!
Check it out! (link below ⬇️)
Many thanks to Chris and Josh for the invitation and all their efforts!
Check it out! (link below ⬇️)
March 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🚨 @mihatsch.bsky.social had a one-hour conversation about Shifting Sovereignties with Chris Padgett and Josh Weiner of the @hist-against-grain.bsky.social podcast.
Many thanks to Chris and Josh for the invitation and all their efforts!
Check it out! (link below ⬇️)
Many thanks to Chris and Josh for the invitation and all their efforts!
Check it out! (link below ⬇️)
Many thanks to Prof Jeremy Adelman for his generous comments.
March 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Many thanks to Prof Jeremy Adelman for his generous comments.
“This book helps chart a pathway to a global history of the moment that we are in.”
Jeremy Adelman commenting on Shifting Sovereignties at the Cambridge book launch on March 12.
@camhistory.bsky.social @intellforum.bsky.social @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social @dgb-history.bsky.social
Jeremy Adelman commenting on Shifting Sovereignties at the Cambridge book launch on March 12.
@camhistory.bsky.social @intellforum.bsky.social @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social @dgb-history.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
“This book helps chart a pathway to a global history of the moment that we are in.”
Jeremy Adelman commenting on Shifting Sovereignties at the Cambridge book launch on March 12.
@camhistory.bsky.social @intellforum.bsky.social @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social @dgb-history.bsky.social
Jeremy Adelman commenting on Shifting Sovereignties at the Cambridge book launch on March 12.
@camhistory.bsky.social @intellforum.bsky.social @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social @dgb-history.bsky.social
Thank you so much to everyone who joined yesterday's book launch in Cambridge @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social @intellforum.bsky.social with an introduction by @mihatsch.bsky.social, comments by Jeremy Adelman, and a Q&A inculding Michael Mulligan who came especially from Bahrain for the event.
March 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Thank you so much to everyone who joined yesterday's book launch in Cambridge @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social @intellforum.bsky.social with an introduction by @mihatsch.bsky.social, comments by Jeremy Adelman, and a Q&A inculding Michael Mulligan who came especially from Bahrain for the event.