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Valentin Clavé-Mercier Editor

Valentin Clavé-Mercier is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Complutense Institute for International Studies (ICEI) at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). 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. His areas of interest include decolonial/postcolonial studies, Indigenous politics, contentious politics, sovereignty studies, political geography, and identity politics. He is the author of “Politics of Sovereignty: Settler Resonance and Māori Resistance in Aotearoa/New Zealand" (2022).

Marie Wuth is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Hamburg. She is a political and moral philosopher specialising in social and political ontology, environmental ethics, democratic theory, Early Modern philosophy, French theory, decolonial and feminist theory. Her research focuses on the question of the political, agency, identity and the power of affects and images in politics. Additionally, she is interested in the impact of relations of power and societal structures for conceptualisations and the relation of nature and politics. Her most recent publications include "Hate. Imaginary Roots and Fatal Dynamics of a Complex Relations" (2022) and "Circular Politics. Potentials, Limits and Boundaries of an Arendtian Nature-Politics" (2021).