Nandita Sharma

Nandita Sharma, Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, is an activist scholar whose research is shaped by No Borders movements and those struggling for the planetary commons. She is the author of Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (Duke University Press, 2020).


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National Sovereignty’s Foundational Violence

“The line belongs to the government,” explains a Guatemalan “smuggler” of the border with Mexico, but “the path belongs to the communities.”