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Join LACS for a talk featuring Arturo Chang (University of Toronto) in discussion with Ana Vedovato (Northwestern, PhD Candidate Political Science).
The Age of Revolutions (c.1775-1850) is conventionally understood as a period characterized by emergent national imaginaries and state-building projects. This presentation contends that the teleologies of the nation-state have flattened our understanding of the politics, proposals, and possibilities at play during the nineteenth-century revolutionary era. Instead, this talk will focus on the importance of hemispheric politics, discourses, and cultural production for instantiating anticolonial movements throughout the Americas. The analysis will demonstrate that hemispheric politics were particularly important for Indigenous, Mestizo, and Pardo groups, whom each leveraged narratives of American emancipation to argue for their positions in the emerging post-colonial order. The conversation will also address vernacular and popular approaches to political theory.
Arturo Chang is Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His research centers on popular movements, nation-building, Indigenous politics, as well as racial and ethnic politics in the Americas. He is the author of A New World of Revolutions: Popular Imaginations and Movements Across the Americas (Princeton University Press 2026). His work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, International Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, Polity, and Constellations, among other venues.
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