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Owen Brown
@obrown.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of International Organizations & Norms at the University of Arkansas | Northwestern Political Science PhD | Researching race, colonialism, and international ordering | he/him | owenbrown.ca
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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
August 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Very excited to see our article out in @internatltheory.bsky.social. In this article, @arturochang.bsky.social and I argue for the importance of tackling questions of agency and resistance from within colonial-racial orders through an examination of Black Loyalist and Indigenous royalist movements.
#OpenAccess -

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 6:24 PM
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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!
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
March 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I am excited to share that I’ll be joining @uarkansas.bsky.social in the fall as Assistant Professor of International Organizations and Norms. Looking forward to working alongside a great group of scholars in the Political Science Department!
January 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley
January 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂
December 17, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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How can we remember and confront the legacies of scientific racism and eugenics? I wrote a review about the new exhibition “Science and Injustice” of the Memorial Site Ihnestraße at the FU Berlin and its community-based participatory process: anthropologyofglobalinequalities.com/2024/11/28/a...
A Collective Effort to Remember Scientific Racism: The Opening of the Memorial Ihnestraße in Berlin
Flowers were placed next to a stele in the opening of the Ihnestraße Memorial Site’s exhibition “History of Science and Injustice”, October 2024 (Photo by the author)by Thiago P. Barbosa The beauti…
anthropologyofglobalinequalities.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Happy to share that my essay “The International Order of White Sovereignty and the Prospect of Abolition” is now out in Ethics & International Affairs. In it I argue that racialisation in the international order means we need to take seriously global calls for abolition. doi.org/10.1017/S089...
The International Order of White Sovereignty and the Prospect of Abolition | Ethics & International Affairs | Cambridge Core
The International Order of White Sovereignty and the Prospect of Abolition - Volume 38 Issue 2
doi.org
November 22, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Also, can people please stop claiming that marginalised people and communities demanding (or “grabbing”) power from those who hold it unjustly is a bad thing? Maybe power is necessary to do “social justice”.
Is making a guy with a white nationalist tattoo who says diversity corrodes military fitness the Secretary of Defense one big power grab
November 16, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!

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November 15, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Happy to share that my article "The Underside of Order: Race in the Constitution of International Order" is now out in @iojournal.bsky.social. In it I argue that processes of racialization are central to the constitution of international order in modernity.
The Underside of Order: Race in the Constitution of International Order | International Organization...
The Underside of Order: Race in the Constitution of International Order
doi.org
February 3, 2024 at 12:02 AM