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Articles by Valentin Clavé-Mercier

October 20, 2023

New Zealand election 2023: a missed opportunity for indigenous co-governance

Valentin Clavé-Mercier
Co-governance featured extensively in the Aotearoa/New Zealand 2023 electoral campaign. These arrangements between central or local governments and Māori Indigenous representatives have divided the political spectrum. Now that electoral results are in, Valentin Clavé-Mercier examines the debate surrounding co-governance and its prospects going forward
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Valentin Clavé-Mercier
Postdoctoral Researcher, Complutense Institute for International Studies (ICEI), Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Valentin holds a PhD in Politics & International Relations from the University of Aberdeen.

His overall research interest lies in how non-Western and decolonial political ontologies and praxis contribute to the rearticulation of contemporary political thought and political imaginaries.

His most recent research focuses on discourses and practices of Indigenous sovereignty, more specifically on their deployment by Māori in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Politics of Sovereignty: Settler Resonance and Māori Resistance in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Ethnopolitics, 2022

Decolonising Political Concepts

Decolonising Political Concepts
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Routledge, 2023

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