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Owen Brown

@obrown.bsky.social
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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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Arturo Chang @arturochang.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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.
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Arturo Chang @arturochang.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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/...
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International Progress and Colonial Critique in E.H. Carr's Reflexive Realism
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Owen Brown @obrown.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
My article, “Crisis and disorder in the liberal international order of White sovereignty,” has now been published in International Relations. In it I explore how discourses of ’crisis’ in the liberal order expose a subterranean investment in colonial-racial hierarchies. doi.org/10.1177/0047...
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Crisis and disorder in the liberal international order of White sovereignty - Owen R Brown, 2026
Accounts of the ‘crisis’ of the liberal international order abound. However, many of the anxieties surrounding the future of this order expose a subtle investme...
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Arturo Chang @arturochang.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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...
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A New World of Revolutions
The hemispheric politics that shaped popular revolutions against European colonial rule
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International Theory @internatltheory.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
#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
Abstract of an International Theory article discussing the need for reevaluating agency and resistance in the context of empire and colonisation, mentioning specific historical examples such as the Black Loyalists and Indigenous colonists of New Granada.
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Owen Brown @obrown.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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.
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Arturo Chang @arturochang.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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!
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Owen Brown @obrown.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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!
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 20/01/2025
“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
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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂
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Thiago P Barbosa @thiago-barbosa.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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...
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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…
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Owen Brown @obrown.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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...
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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
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Owen Brown @obrown.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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”.
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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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! go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
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Owen Brown @obrown.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
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.
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The Underside of Order: Race in the Constitution of International Order | International Organization...
The Underside of Order: Race in the Constitution of International Order
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