‘Empires We Choose: Migration and Sovereignty in a Double Periphery’ forthcoming monograph

Empires We Choose takes a historical and ethnographic approach to questions at the centre of contemporary political debates: what kind of sovereignty is possible for a small nation in an inter-imperial terrain? Is choosing alliances a form of sovereignty? Must one be independent to be free? To tackle these questions, this new book by Dace Dzenovska tells the story of how Latvians switched empires in pursuit of sovereignty by redirecting migration imaginaries and pathways from East to West. The main question this book asks is whether, from the perspective of a periphery, freedom is just another word for the empire you choose.

Keep watch at https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/people/dace-dzenovska for more information.