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David Temin

@davidtemin.bsky.social
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associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan || book: REMAPPING SOVEREIGNTY (2023) || Currently writing: WAGES FOR EARTHWORK

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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“Which Decolonization?” (Open access) Part of Development and Change’s 2026 forum issue on, you guessed it, decolonization onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Which Decolonization? Theorizing Decolonization beyond Decoloniality and its Critics
The debate on decolonial thought has reached an unhelpful stalemate. A core problem in assessing decolonial thought is that the term ‘decolonization’ has been stretched so widely that it now allows f....
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Settler colonialism and political theory Critical Exchange -- Open access with contributions from David Myer Temin, Morgan Mowatt, Max Ajl & Phil Henderson link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Settler colonialism and political theory - Contemporary Political Theory
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I am proud to announce the publication of our Critical Exchange on "Settler Colonialism and Political Theory" now out online first in Contemporary Political Theory. (1/6) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Settler colonialism and political theory - Contemporary Political Theory
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Debate me bros on the quad. Official first day of spring.
Conservative bros set up to debate students and film it film it for “owning the libs” videos, with propositions such as “Americans can’t afford housing but socialism won’t work”
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
No, they shouldn’t. B/c 1. You can’t just make Cold War civil rights happen again. 2. Cold War Anti-communism was a reputational pressure cooker for civil rights *and* for their severe repression. 2. Increased geopolitical competition (you want more escalation?!?!?) is a recipe against reform.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Is this a joke? Some of those campus leaders are still in jail, face deportation, or had their normal lives stripped from them by the security state.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Symposium in Review of Politics on my 2023 book Remapping Sovereignty on @uchicagopress.bsky.social, with introduction by Adam Dahl, generous and sharp essays/engagements from Angelica Bernal, Jane Gordon, Burke Hendrix, Tim Vasko, and author response from me. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A Symposium on David Myer Temin’s Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought | The Review of Politics | Cambridge Core
A Symposium on David Myer Temin’s Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🧐🧐🧐
Email from Elissa Slotkin that reads “as a former cia officer, I’ve seen democracies flicker out.”
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The fact that he’s not running again suggests that this is Walz’s real preference for less spectacular ways of snatching our neighbors from their communities.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am reminded, yet again, of how often the people the fascist state executes are already in jobs that involve caring for others and holding worlds together—and that they still spend their time off caring for our neighbors.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Right by my old apartment in Minneapolis. I love you, I love you, I love you. To all the people standing up against fascism
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
When u r a true MaVErick, u vote for the gestapo at the door.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/01/2026
Ok I need to spell this out more slowly, clearly: Greenland is Inuit land and nobody but Inuit should be getting to decide what happens to it
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We don’t have to tell stories that are false to opposed bad things, and we are more likely to get more bad things if we tell stories that cover over continuities with all the other same bad things.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
A century that includes the US navy using gunboats to literally pilfer the Haitian treasury. Wtaf are they talking about?
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The willful historical illiteracy among pundits about American imperialism is still shocking, no matter how predictable.
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Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I saw the “using children as human shields” line used by someone in the admin the other day with reference to Minneapolis and wondered if people might finally get it.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The federal government has occupied Minneapolis. And everyone can see the abuses that come from this situation day in and day out. Even people not protesting cant keep their kids safe. Now imagine 77 years of this.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Absolutely no one: “I wonder what Emily Oster thinks about all this?”
Fraudster Emily Oster op-Ed claiming that Kennedy’s advice is “not crazy”
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Abolition is the reform
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Reminder that for US foreign policy elites contemplating intervention since 1945: “democracy” means right-wing dictatorship “dictatorship” means left-wing dictatorship, social democracy, or democratic socialism
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I can’t be the only one who thinks that the timing is partly motivated by Trump being envious at the media attention lavished on Mamdani.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Guatemala - 1954 Chile -1973 Venezuela - 2025
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Bombing Venezuela and kidnapping Maduro is completely consistent with US Imperialism’s long and bloody history in Latin America.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Tasks of the US left are to stand in solidarity with the Venezuelan people and make sure this war becomes deeply unpopular at home.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The US is a rogue state. The US has always been a rogue state.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
In the immortal words of Hugo Chavez, “Eres un donkey, Mr. Danger.”
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Imperial war, again
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
The resonances with personal elder care experience are sooooo familiar.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Gotta enjoy one more ridiculous Adams administration folly on the way out the door.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
You will be visited by three spirits
Triptych of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Chairman Mao
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Every white academic grievance article is like “I didn’t get hired because I’m white and also unrelatedly I refused to apply and also unrelatedly I was later found to have made up the central claim of my research from thin air”
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Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
5: @davidtemin.bsky.social's piece draws on W.E.B Du Bois show illustrate how imperialism and ecomodernism reproduce themselves through a gendered and racialised 'imperial bargain' with some sectors of the imperial core's working class. brill.com/view/journal...
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Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Our special issue of Labor and Society on the ecomodernist features of imperialism is now online in full. The issue makes a stronger contribution to theorising contemporary imperialist dynamics than I could have ever hoped for. Here's a thread introducing each contribution. 🧵
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
If this isn’t a winning frame I’m not sure what is.
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Alejandro Pedregal @alejopedregal.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I'm counting the hours to tell you all about this Special Issue that I had the privilege of co-editing with comrades @kaiheron.bsky.social and Nemanja Lukić for JLSO. Meanwhile, you can already find many of its articles on the journal's site, some open access, including our intro.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I was thrilled to contribute an essay to this special issue of JLSO on anti-imperialism and ecological modernity. It’s one of the more robustly cohesive special issues you’ll see anywhere, with awesome editing and introduction by @alejopedregal.bsky.social, @kaiheron.bsky.social, and Nemanja Lukic.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
If you are (or know) a graduate student @umich.edu interested in empire, colonialism, and decolonization, I'm teaching a seminar on these topics this coming winter entitled Postcolonial Political Theory. I'm excited to teach a whole new slate of new work by some amazing scholars.
Flyer with information about a winter 2026 graduate seminar course on postcolonial political theory at the University of Michigan taught by David Myer Temin
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
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Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
What is fascinating and delulu here is the effort to re-animate the corpse of a unified pro-Israel American Jewish constituency that is already gone. It’s too late for that; the condescension of course won’t win anyone back into what was the imperial consensus on Israel.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A lot like Reagan, just not in the way you might think
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/12/2025
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 05/11/2025
"Thousands are escaping El Fasher with nothing but the clothes on their backs — help us raise $50,000 to keep them alive." #KeepEyesOnSudan www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...
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Emergency Appeal: Save Families Fleeing Alfashir | LaunchGood | LaunchGood
Thousands are escaping El Fasher with nothing but the clothes on their backs — help us raise $50,000 to keep them alive.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Congratulations to @brunoleipold.com and co! Important project on popular government, with Mamdani’s win only two days in the rear-view.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
At U of Michigan’s Department of Political Science, we will make 3 admissions offers for the PhD in political theory. That’s 3 open slots! Apply early and often. Deadline December 15. Feel free to reach out to me directly with questions. Here’s a picture of a dinner I was proud of cooking.
butternut squash with whipped feta, pistachios, and herb
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Such an inspiring book.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Donated and boosting. Please donate if you can. Aside from all the other horrors, all I could think in watching this is how I never could’ve kept my own sweet baby from picking up rubble and eating it.
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
My colleague Annie with a 🔥🔥🔥 new article out in APSR soon. Go read it!
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David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Turns out you can’t build bananas at all.
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