Jinxue Chen
@jinxuechen.bsky.social
Political Theory PhD candidate at Northwestern | Visiting fellow at Sciences Po | Editorial Assistant for Perspectives on Politics
Writing on exile, migration, classical education, and modern China.
Writing on exile, migration, classical education, and modern China.
The one paper whose existence in title alone gave me confidence in my prospectus! Great to see it out. It offers a compelling discussion of diasporas’s meta-commitments and obligation of answerability, drawing on examples from Kurdish, Tibetan, Hongkong, and Jewish diasporas. A fascinating piece!
My article with @closasanna.bsky.social , “Grounding the Diasporic Turn in Political Theory: Meta-Commitment, Transnationalism, and Political Obligation”, is out on
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November 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The one paper whose existence in title alone gave me confidence in my prospectus! Great to see it out. It offers a compelling discussion of diasporas’s meta-commitments and obligation of answerability, drawing on examples from Kurdish, Tibetan, Hongkong, and Jewish diasporas. A fascinating piece!
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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!
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A New World of Revolutions
The hemispheric politics that shaped popular revolutions against European colonial rule
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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...
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📣 Delighted to share that my paper "Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem" is forthcoming in Philosophy! 🎉 (1/8)
A preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/BEAMNI
A preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/BEAMNI
Eilidh Beaton, Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem - PhilPapers
Political philosophy has long been criticised for its state-centricity. A recent version of this objection asserts that the discipline perpetuates a problematic methodological nationalism. Critics arg...
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April 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
📣 Delighted to share that my paper "Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem" is forthcoming in Philosophy! 🎉 (1/8)
A preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/BEAMNI
A preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/BEAMNI
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"The multiplex order in the eastern Indian Ocean was a highly robust and resilient order that lasted for centuries even in the absence of a grand design. It did not depend exclusively on any single polity, not even imperial China."
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April 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"The multiplex order in the eastern Indian Ocean was a highly robust and resilient order that lasted for centuries even in the absence of a grand design. It did not depend exclusively on any single polity, not even imperial China."
asianreviewofbooks.com/excerpt-from...
asianreviewofbooks.com/excerpt-from...
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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
Reading about Edward Said’s life decades later..
(From J. Morefield “Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory”)
(From J. Morefield “Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory”)
April 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Reading about Edward Said’s life decades later..
(From J. Morefield “Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory”)
(From J. Morefield “Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory”)
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Job alert!
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.
Please help spread the word among interested candidates!
Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.
Please help spread the word among interested candidates!
Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
March 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Job alert!
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.
Please help spread the word among interested candidates!
Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.
Please help spread the word among interested candidates!
Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
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Details below on our "Perspectives on Politics" team's first call for papers! We seek research applying political science tools & theories to investigate "The University," broadly understood. Led by three great guest editors, this special issue will probe the politics of higher education & much more
Reminder: Perspectives on Politics Call for Papers
POLITICAL SCIENCE & THE UNIVERSITY
Guest Editors: @anjaneundorf.bsky.social , Robert Pape, & Nicholas Tampio
Deadline: August 1, 2025
More info here: https://buff.ly/3Wfo0Cq
POLITICAL SCIENCE & THE UNIVERSITY
Guest Editors: @anjaneundorf.bsky.social , Robert Pape, & Nicholas Tampio
Deadline: August 1, 2025
More info here: https://buff.ly/3Wfo0Cq
January 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Details below on our "Perspectives on Politics" team's first call for papers! We seek research applying political science tools & theories to investigate "The University," broadly understood. Led by three great guest editors, this special issue will probe the politics of higher education & much more
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Citational politics in academia comprises a pervasive sore point. I no longer engage academic work that cites a particular demographic in excess, editing out knowledges constituted by racialised & global south thinkers.
The knowledge formation by this 'ethnoclass' (Wynter) remains wilfully partial.
The knowledge formation by this 'ethnoclass' (Wynter) remains wilfully partial.
March 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Citational politics in academia comprises a pervasive sore point. I no longer engage academic work that cites a particular demographic in excess, editing out knowledges constituted by racialised & global south thinkers.
The knowledge formation by this 'ethnoclass' (Wynter) remains wilfully partial.
The knowledge formation by this 'ethnoclass' (Wynter) remains wilfully partial.