Deconstructing political spaces, decolonizing political narratives: self-government praxis, Legal Pluralism and insurrectionary practices in British Colonial North-America"

Supervisor/s: Sara Araújo

Doctoral Programme: Sociology of the State, Law and Justice

This work aims to investigate British Colonialism in North-America through an interdisciplinary approach.

Its goal is to contest a monolithic perspective on sociopolitical

relations across the British Colonies in North-America between the XVII and the XVIII Centuries.

Based on the main epistemological innovations produced since the second half of the XX Century in fields like Global History, Political Philosophy, Postcolonial Studies and Sociology

of Law, this research proposes a deconstruction of sociopolitical relations within the context of pluralism of Early North-America. It interrogates this dimension as a space for resistance and agency, by underlining the antagonistic interactions between Euro-American colonial elites, Indigenous Communities and interracial urban mobs of people deported and forced to

work in the Colonies.

Emphasis will be given to governmental tools used by each social group, focusing on judicial advocacy and urban rioting as forms of resistance against labour policies, penal regimes and

racial discrimination.