Valentin Clavé-Mercier

Assistant Professor Doctor in the Department of Political Science and Administration of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Aberdeen (2022). In 2025, he has been Postdoctoral Researcher Juan de la Cierva. Previously, she was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the H2020 project “POLITICO – Political Concepts in the World” and postdoctoral researcher in the H2020 project “JUSTNORTH – Toward a Just, Ethical and Sustainable Arctic”. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Auckland (Aotearoa/New Zealand) twice and at La Trobe University Melbourne (Australia). He is a researcher at the Complutense Institute for International Studies (ICEI) and is currently a member of the executive committee of IPSA Research Committee 53 “Indigenous Politics”.

Her research interests include indigenous politics, critical political theory, contentious politics, postcolonial and decolonial studies, decolonization policies, and critical approaches to issues of authority, sovereignty, and governance. Among his latest publications are: Indigenous Political Theory, Metaphysical Revolt, and the Decolonial Rearticulation of Political Ordering (2025); ‘Sovereignty is still the name of the game’: Indigenous theorising and strategic entanglement in Māori political discourses» (2024); Decolonising Political Concepts (2023); ‘Politics of Sovereignty: Settler Resonance and Māori Resistance in Aotearoa/New Zealand» (2022).

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