Arturo Chang

Join us in Vancouver for a conversation on Anna’s exciting new book. Congrats again @annajurkevics.bsky.social!

Abstract of an International Theory article discussing the need for reevaluating agency and resistance in the context of empire and colonisation, mentioning specific historical examples such as the Black Loyalists and Indigenous colonists of New Granada.

#OpenAccess from our latest issue -

Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders - cup.org/3F8FkmN

- @obrown.bsky.social & @arturochang.bsky.social

Thanks for sharing, Joel!

Excited to see that A New World of Revolutions has a page up now @princetonupress.bsky.social! Thanks to the editors and reviewers for what proved to be a very constructive editorial process.

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Thanks Ani! Hope to see you sometime soon!

Thanks for sharing, David! Excited to see this project out in the world soon.

Abstract of an International Theory article discussing the need for reevaluating agency and resistance in the context of empire and colonisation, mentioning specific historical examples such as the Black Loyalists and Indigenous colonists of New Granada.

#OpenAccess from our new issue -

Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders - cup.org/3F8FkmN

- @obrown.bsky.social & @arturochang.bsky.social

For decades marginalized communities warned about the militarization of law enforcement too. Is the literal military being deployed on protestors bad? Yes. But the police have tanks, y’all.

cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

I’d be happy to send you a pdf if you send me your email. Thanks for the interest!

1) Very pleased with this new piece co-authored with @arturochang.bsky.social in @polityalsberuf.bsky.social. In one respect, it's an exercise in the academic esoteric: an essay on a single footnote in Rousseau's Social Contract. But in another respect . . .
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Many thanks to the editors @polityalsberuf.bsky.social for their very constructive review and publication process.

In this project we analyze why, how, and through which interlocutors Rousseau might have turned to Tlaxcala as his only relatively contemporary example for a virtuous republic. We also analyze Tlaxcala's anti-imperial politics on its own terms, via primary texts in Tlaxcalan political thought.

Very happy to see this article with @laywilliams.bsky.social out online at @polityalsberuf.bsky.social. Link. below.

Rousseau and Tlaxcala: Indigenous Transfigurations, Republican Liberty, and the Transimperial Politics of the New World | Polity www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Congrats Ely!! Looking forward to reading the final version.

Very excited to share the program of the upcoming WHPT conference! It promises to be a wonderful couple of days, and we cannot wait!

@maryjomacdonald.bsky.social @sophiecardin.bsky.social @abbsleblanc.bsky.social @rosscarroll.bsky.social @tmbejan.bsky.social

Welp.

Excited for this conversation at @royalholloway.bsky.social later today. Thanks @rhulpir.bsky.social for the invitation!

Empire and Emancipation Panel + Spring Social The London Political Theory Network will host scholars to explore themes of colonialism, imperial legacy, and anticolonial resistance.

I will be in London next week to participate in a panel on imperial legacies and emancipatory politics. Thanks to the London Political Theory Network for the invitation. I'm excited for the conversation. Event/RSVP info below:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empire-and...

Trump Demands Major Changes in Columbia Discipline and Admissions Rules A letter outlining “immediate next steps” arrived less than a week after the administration said it was canceling $400 million in grants and contracts.

The subjugation of universities to official power is a hallmark of autocracy. No one should be under any illusions about what’s going on here. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

Factionalized Mobilization: Development Paradigm Shifts and Marginalization in Colombia - Studies in Comparative International Development Under which conditions do social movement coalitions factionalize under parallel, and possibly contending, frames? We argue that social movements split along opposing collective action frames when dev...

Excited to see this article with @isabelguiza.bsky.social and Laura García Montoya now out with @scidjournal.bsky.social. Many thanks to the editors and reviewers for their constructive feedback during the revision process. Access the paper here: rdcu.be/ecZL3

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Very happy to see this article out at @internatltheory.bsky.social. @obrown.bsky.social and I draw on archival research to examine how Black and Indigenous royalists negotiated their standing from within colonial orders. Many thanks to the editorial team for a very constructive process!

I’ve been thinking of this poem by Wisława Szymborska often these days.

Thanks for the invite, Elizabeth! Looking forward to the conversation.

I will presenting my chapter on Indigenous Peru at the BU’s political theory workshop next Monday. If you are in the area please feel free to join. Thanks to Paul Gutierrez and BU Polisci for the invitation!

I've created a starter pack for those researching and writing histories of the Atlantic world. If you are working in any field that falls within, or is related to, Atlantic history you are welcome. Just reply below and I'll add you.

go.bsky.app/E8itZWt

Good to be on BlueSky now. Happy to share this review I wrote of @davidtemin.bsky.social's Remapping Sovereignty as well as Sheryl Lightfoot and Elsa Stamatopoulou's Indigenous Peoples and Borders. Thanks to Perspectives on Politics for the invitation to review.

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