Arturo Chang
@arturochang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Toronto. Studying popular movements, nation-building, Indigenous politics, and race in the Americas
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A New World of Revolutions
The hemispheric politics that shaped popular revolutions against European colonial rule
press.princeton.edu
Very happy to share that my book, A New World of Revolutoins, now has a cover and page with @princetonupress.bsky.social. Many thanks to the editorial team for coming up with a great design!
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Very happy to share that my book, A New World of Revolutoins, now has a cover and page with @princetonupress.bsky.social. Many thanks to the editorial team for coming up with a great design!
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
A New World of Revolutions
The hemispheric politics that shaped popular revolutions against European colonial rule
press.princeton.edu
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Very happy to share that my book, A New World of Revolutoins, now has a cover and page with @princetonupress.bsky.social. Many thanks to the editorial team for coming up with a great design!
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Join us in Vancouver for a conversation on Anna’s exciting new book. Congrats again @annajurkevics.bsky.social!
Hello APSA folks, please come and join me Catherine Lu, Arturo Change, Matt Longo, and Niklas Plaetzer for an author-meets-critics roundtable on my new book, Contested Territory (OUP 2025) on Thursday morning at 10am!
Thu Sept 11 10am Vancouver Convention Centre, East Ballroom C
Thu Sept 11 10am Vancouver Convention Centre, East Ballroom C
September 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Join us in Vancouver for a conversation on Anna’s exciting new book. Congrats again @annajurkevics.bsky.social!
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#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
Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders - cup.org/3F8FkmN
- @obrown.bsky.social & @arturochang.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
#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
Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders - cup.org/3F8FkmN
- @obrown.bsky.social & @arturochang.bsky.social
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.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
A New World of Revolutions
The hemispheric politics that shaped popular revolutions against European colonial rule
press.princeton.edu
August 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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#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
Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders - cup.org/3F8FkmN
- @obrown.bsky.social & @arturochang.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
#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
Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders - cup.org/3F8FkmN
- @obrown.bsky.social & @arturochang.bsky.social
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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.
June 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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.
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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.
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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.
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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/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Rousseau and Tlaxcala: Indigenous Transfigurations, Republican Liberty, and the Transimperial Politics of the New World | Polity
Rousseau’s reference to Tlaxcala, an Indigenous nation located in current-day central Mexico, appears in a footnote to Book 2, chapter 10 of The Social Contract as proof that virtuous republics could ...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
May 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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...
Rousseau and Tlaxcala: Indigenous Transfigurations, Republican Liberty, and the Transimperial Politics of the New World | Polity www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Rousseau and Tlaxcala: Indigenous Transfigurations, Republican Liberty, and the Transimperial Politics of the New World | Polity
Rousseau’s reference to Tlaxcala, an Indigenous nation located in current-day central Mexico, appears in a footnote to Book 2, chapter 10 of The Social Contract as proof that virtuous republics could ...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
May 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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...
Rousseau and Tlaxcala: Indigenous Transfigurations, Republican Liberty, and the Transimperial Politics of the New World | Polity www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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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
@maryjomacdonald.bsky.social @sophiecardin.bsky.social @abbsleblanc.bsky.social @rosscarroll.bsky.social @tmbejan.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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
@maryjomacdonald.bsky.social @sophiecardin.bsky.social @abbsleblanc.bsky.social @rosscarroll.bsky.social @tmbejan.bsky.social
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Welp.
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
April 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Welp.
Excited for this conversation at @royalholloway.bsky.social later today. Thanks @rhulpir.bsky.social for the invitation!
Come along to the final research seminar of the academic year this afternoon at 1pm in McCrea 201! @arturochang.bsky.social will be presenting "Indigenous Sovereignty and the Construction of Postcolonial Citizenship in the Andes" 🧑🏫
Our spring term research seminar schedule just dropped!
Join us on Wednesday at 1pm in McCrea 201 for the first talk from Joe Hoover on "The Dangers of Utopia: World Building and the Careful Practice of Hope"
Join us on Wednesday at 1pm in McCrea 201 for the first talk from Joe Hoover on "The Dangers of Utopia: World Building and the Careful Practice of Hope"
April 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Excited for this conversation at @royalholloway.bsky.social later today. Thanks @rhulpir.bsky.social for the invitation!
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...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empire-and...
Empire and Emancipation Panel + Spring Social
The London Political Theory Network will host scholars to explore themes of colonialism, imperial legacy, and anticolonial resistance.
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March 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empire-and...
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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...
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.
www.nytimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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...
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
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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...
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March 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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!
A great new article by @obrown.bsky.social and @arturochang.bsky.social examining political agency and resistance against racial hierarchy within imperial and colonial orders, questioning conventional binaries of revolution and reform, emancipation and subjection, neo- and anti-colonial politics.
#OpenAccess -
Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders - cup.org/3F8FkmN
- @obrown.bsky.social & @arturochang.bsky.social
#FirstView
Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders - cup.org/3F8FkmN
- @obrown.bsky.social & @arturochang.bsky.social
#FirstView
March 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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.
March 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I’ve been thinking of this poem by Wisława Szymborska often these days.
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!
November 21, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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!
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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.
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go.bsky.app/E8itZWt
November 21, 2024 at 9:53 AM
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
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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Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought. By David Myer Temin. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. 288p. $99.00 cloth, $3...
Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought. By David Myer Temin. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. 288p. 30.95 paper.
www.cambridge.org
November 20, 2024 at 1:49 AM
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.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...