Igor Cherstich is an Anthropologist and Senior Lecturer at University College London. He has written extensively about cosmology, revolution, sufism and Libyan politics. He is the co-author of the book "Anthropologies of Revolution: Forging Time, People and Worlds" with Martin Holbraad and Nico Tassi, and is in the process of finalizing his new book: "Seventy-Thousand Secrets: Sufism, Revolution and Concealment in Libya". 

The "Stateless Sovereignties" speaker series seeks to explore the concept and practice of sovereignty outside of its traditional euro- and state centric heritage and definitions, by inviting internationally renown scholars to unpack, pluralize and disassemble the concept with perspectives coming from the margins of the global order. By moving sovereignty beyond its conventional connection to statehood, the series aims to adapt the concept to a new set of circumstances, so that it may better account for the many radical experiments with governance across the world, and the rapid changes impacting peoples' ways of relating to each other.