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Valentin Clavé-Mercier is currently a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Researcher at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) with the "MOVICON - Movilización, Contienda Política y Cambio Social" research group. He previously completed a Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD in Politics & IR at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. 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, critical political theory, sovereignty studies, political geography, and identity politics. He is the editor of Decolonising Political Concepts (2023, Routledge) and has published in several academic journals such as Relaciones Internacionales, Ethnopolitics, Review of International Studies or International Theory.