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. https://www.arturochang.com/
Sharing this new Foreign Policy essay from @arturochang.bsky.social, featuring arguments from his new @princetonupress.bsky.social book, A New World of Revolutions.
Arturo Chang@arturochang.bsky.social · 2w agoThanks for the book feature, Foreign Policy! In this essay I analyze the Trump administration's recent appeals to the Monroe Doctrine and how they've moved away from its intended political vision. foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/31/t...
Thanks for the book feature, Foreign Policy! In this essay I analyze the Trump administration's recent appeals to the Monroe Doctrine and how they've moved away from its intended political vision. foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/31/t...
Resurrecting the Real Monroe Doctrine
Hidden behind two centuries of aggressive presidential corollaries is an enduring appeal to hemispheric solidarity.
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In A New World of Revolutions, @arturochang.bsky.social reconstructs the histories, politics, & legacies of the Age of Revolutions (c. 1770–1850) from the vantage point of popular movements in the Americas. Out now (28 July UK/EU pub). Check out a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
"Nationalist histories are useful for retroactively concretizing the state as a perennial institution, but they do so at a cost. They evade the reality that cultural, social, and political practices and identities necessarily operated more freely." www.zocalopublicsquare.org/to-understan...
To Understand ‘America,’ Understand the Americas | Essay
U.S. Independence Is a Story of the Entire Western Hemisphere
zocalopublicsquare.org
Arturo Chang@arturochang.bsky.social · last mo.I enjoyed writing this piece reflecting on American identities as we near the 250th anniversary of US independence. Many thanks to the team at @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social for their support and encouragement!
Read this @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social piece by @arturochang.bsky.social, author of A New World of Revolutions:
To Understand ‘America,’ Understand the Americas | Essay
U.S. Independence Is a Story of the Entire Western Hemisphere
zocalopublicsquare.org
I enjoyed writing this piece reflecting on American identities as we near the 250th anniversary of US independence. Many thanks to the team at @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social for their support and encouragement!
Zócalo Public Square@zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social · last mo.What identities, communities, and cultures comprise the category of “America”? @arturochang.bsky.social explains why the U.S. semiquincentennial offers people throughout the Americas a chance to reflect and rethink. zps.la/3SU8kp6
Of all the numbers David Lay Williams has seen about Elon Musk’s new status as a trillionaire, “the one that struck me most forcefully was a calculation in The Times that Mr. Musk’s net worth is five million times as large as that of the average American family,” he writes.
Opinion | Elon Musk Is Too Rich. We’ve Known That Since Plato.
The philosopher made a radical proposal about wealth.
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Delighted to share my guest essay from this morning's @nytimes.com opinion section. And kudos to the Times for their excellent artwork!
New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · 2mo agoOf all the numbers David Lay Williams has seen about Elon Musk’s new status as a trillionaire, “the one that struck me most forcefully was a calculation in The Times that Mr. Musk’s net worth is five million times as large as that of the average American family,” he writes.
“Generations of Black Americans are coming to terms with the exhaustion, rage and grief from knowing that they and their children will most likely continue to face exceptional headwinds in the United States, a country their ancestors helped build.” Excellent piece by Mara Gay.
Opinion | A Shocking Betrayal of Black Americans
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The hemispheric politics that shaped popular revolutions against European colonial rule. A New World of Revolutions by @arturochang.bsky.social is now available (28 July UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
It's book day! A New World of Revolutions is now out and doing its thing in the world. Link below if you are interested in ordering a copy.
If you are in London this week, consider joining us for an interdisciplinary workshop on "Self-Determination in Latin America" at the London School of Economics. Thanks to @cristinaconesa.bsky.social for organizing such an exciting event. RSVP link below.
Excited to receive an advance copy of my book, A New World of Revolutions! The team @princetonupress.bsky.social did a wonderful job with the design. The book is available now for pre-order and will be published in the US on June 2nd (July 28th for UK readers). Link below.
Very pleased to share this essay in @constellationsjrnl.bsky.social by my former student, @arturochang.bsky.social, who is going to outpublish my entire corpus before he goes up for tenure!
International Progress and Colonial Critique in E.H. Carr's Reflexive Realism
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Glad to see that my article, "International Progress and Colonial Critique in E.H. Carr's Reflexive Realism," is now available with open access at Constellations. I analyze the role of colonial critique in E.H. Carr's argument for "realistic" interpretation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
International Progress and Colonial Critique in E.H. Carr's Reflexive Realism
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
How did Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show tap into a 200-year old tradition of elevating hemisphere over nation in the struggle against imperial rule? Read this fascinating @myhnn.bsky.social piece by @arturochang.bsky.social, author of the forthcoming A New World of Revolutions:
Arturo Chang@arturochang.bsky.social · 6mo agoI wrote a short article for @myhnn.bsky.social analyzing the hemispheric histories behind Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime shown. I show that hemispheric discourses have long been used to combat the politics of empire. Link below! www.hnn.us/article/the-...
Read @arturochang.bsky.social on the history behind Bad Bunny’s statement that America, as an identity and a community, need not be confined to the zero-sum politics of nationalism and the nation-state system. www.hnn.us/article/the-...
The Bad Bunny Doctrine
The Superbowl LX halftime show tapped into a 200-year old tradition of elevating hemisphere over nation in the struggle against imperial rule.
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I wrote a short article for @myhnn.bsky.social analyzing the hemispheric histories behind Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime shown. I show that hemispheric discourses have long been used to combat the politics of empire. Link below! www.hnn.us/article/the-...
The Bad Bunny Doctrine
The Superbowl LX halftime show tapped into a 200-year old tradition of elevating hemisphere over nation in the struggle against imperial rule.
hnn.us
Excited to discuss my forthcoming book with the Latin American Studies Association on Feb. 27th. Also looking forward to learning more about @hypervic.bsky.social's exciting new book. Follow the link on the poster for registration.
uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social@uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social · 6mo agoOn Feb 27, join @uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social @arturochang.bsky.social and @hypervic.bsky.social for a virtual discussion on their latest books, including Chang's forthcoming @princetonupress.bsky.social 'A New World of Revolutions.' #AgeofRevolutions #theAmericas press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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...
A New World of Revolutions
The hemispheric politics that shaped popular revolutions against European colonial rule
press.princeton.edu
Join us in Vancouver for a conversation on Anna’s exciting new book. Congrats again @annajurkevics.bsky.social!
Anna Jurkevics@annajurkevics.bsky.social · 11mo agoHello 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
#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
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...
A New World of Revolutions
The hemispheric politics that shaped popular revolutions against European colonial rule
press.princeton.edu
#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.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · last yr.LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
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/...
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 ...
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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
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 ...
journals.uchicago.edu
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
