Dr. Katherine Bowers and Dr. Heidi Tworek have been awarded funding through the Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters competition for the project “Sovereignty in a Fractious Age” (2026-28).
The project aims to bring together researchers working on questions of digital, cultural, and territorial sovereignty at UBC.
Sovereignty is an increasingly urgent topic in our current moment. It is striking that concepts and practices of sovereignty are being broadly reconfigured as groups of scholars, journalists, and members of the public have started to place it at the centre of how they understand the contemporary world. At UBC, many scholars research aspects of sovereignty, but have not engaged with each other. This cluster brings together UBC scholars from multiple disciplines to discuss digital, cultural, and territorial sovereignty. Revisiting and re-imagining sovereignty is crucial as this scholarship can have significant and near-term impact for the present.
If you are interested in collaborating on this topic and would like to learn about the cluster’s activities in the future, please contact either Katherine or Heidi directly.
