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Towards Understanding Sovereignty Shifts: A Poststructural Conceptualization and China’s United Front Work

Eriksson, Emma LU and Svenningsson, Henric LU (2021) STVA22 20202
Department of Political Science
Abstract
Functioning as a core constitution for the global system, sovereignty is an important manifestation of discourse. This paper adopts a holistic post-structural framework and asks: how can global sovereignty shifts be understood? The answer is framed as a method for conceptualizing shifts, where we have been able to identify four concepts that each manifest those in different ways. They are: 1) Authority - how legitimacy for the sovereign’s authority is derived 2) Extent - what the scope of action for the sovereign is 3) Demarcation - how sovereignty frames the binary opposition between internal and external 4) Knowledge - which discursively constituted truths prevails. We assess our conceptualization by applying it to a contemporary... (More)
Functioning as a core constitution for the global system, sovereignty is an important manifestation of discourse. This paper adopts a holistic post-structural framework and asks: how can global sovereignty shifts be understood? The answer is framed as a method for conceptualizing shifts, where we have been able to identify four concepts that each manifest those in different ways. They are: 1) Authority - how legitimacy for the sovereign’s authority is derived 2) Extent - what the scope of action for the sovereign is 3) Demarcation - how sovereignty frames the binary opposition between internal and external 4) Knowledge - which discursively constituted truths prevails. We assess our conceptualization by applying it to a contemporary example: China's United Front Work towards the Chinese diaspora. Upon conducting the assessment of our method, we found that it contributes to the understanding of global sovereignty shifts through being able to identify them. (Less)
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author
Eriksson, Emma LU and Svenningsson, Henric LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVA22 20202
year
type
L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
subject
keywords
Sovereignty, discursive shifts, post-structuralism, United Front Work, Chinese diaspora.
language
English
id
9033527
date added to LUP
2021-05-11 14:43:35
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2021-05-11 14:43:35
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  abstract     = {{Functioning as a core constitution for the global system, sovereignty is an important manifestation of discourse. This paper adopts a holistic post-structural framework and asks: how can global sovereignty shifts be understood? The answer is framed as a method for conceptualizing shifts, where we have been able to identify four concepts that each manifest those in different ways. They are: 1) Authority - how legitimacy for the sovereign’s authority is derived 2) Extent - what the scope of action for the sovereign is 3) Demarcation - how sovereignty frames the binary opposition between internal and external 4) Knowledge - which discursively constituted truths prevails. We assess our conceptualization by applying it to a contemporary example: China's United Front Work towards the Chinese diaspora. Upon conducting the assessment of our method, we found that it contributes to the understanding of global sovereignty shifts through being able to identify them.}},
  author       = {{Eriksson, Emma and Svenningsson, Henric}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Towards Understanding Sovereignty Shifts: A Poststructural Conceptualization and China’s United Front Work}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}