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 . . .
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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 ...
