Finally, there is some work – scattered across disciplines and diverse case contexts – that adopts an approach of studying separatist politics (and cognate phenomena) with a performative lens. This is the scholarship that we draw on most closely in this project.

Some of the most helpful interventions are those Michael Bobick, Rebecca Bryant, Bart Klem (and his co-authored work with Sidharthan Maunaguru), Fiona McConnell and Gëzim Visoka.