Dr Valentin Clavé-Mercier is a Lecturer in Political Studies at Complutense University of Madrid, where he was previously a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Researcher. He completed a PhD in Politics & IR at the University of Aberdeen as an Early Stage Researcher for the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL). He was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow for the H2020 research project “POLITICO – Political Concepts in the World” (2018-2022) and a Postdoctoral Researcher for the H2020 research project “JUSTNORTH – Toward a Just, Ethical and Sustainable Arctic” (2022-2023). He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Auckland (Aotearoa/New Zealand) and La Trobe University Melbourne (Australia). He is currently an Associate Researcher at the Complutense Institute for International Studies (ICEI) and a member of the executive committee of IPSA Research Committee 53 ‘Indigenous Politics’.
His research interests include indigenous politics, critical political theory, contentious politics, postcolonial and decolonial studies, the politics of decolonisation, and critical approaches to questions of authority, sovereignty and governance. He has authored research articles published in Ethnopolitics, Review of International Studies or International Theory among others, and is the co-editor of Decolonising Political Concepts (Routledge, 2023).
Contact: valclave@ucm.es
