Postcolonial Global Justice A new account of global justice that recovers anticolonial thought for resisting a neocolonial age

You can pick up the book here: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I argue in the review that the book develops a unique account of anticolonial egalitarianism that, among other contributions, (a) advances our understanding of colonialism; (b) radicalizes egalitarian theories; and (c) expands our decolonial visions beyond a statist global order.

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Just wrote a book review for Shuk Ying Chan's new book, Postcolonial Global Justice.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Happy to be interviewed for and included by @npr.org on its Word of the Week segment on Ideology! Fun to get the chance to historicize the word within the Enlightenment and Marxist traditions and open the opportunity to reflect on how ideology relates to other adjacent concepts~

Tai Po in flames - Lausan How Hongkongers are reviving mass action and mutual aid in the wake of the deadly fires in Tai Po.

Tai Po in flames @lausanhk.bsky.social: "While many commentators outside #HongKong have been repeating the mantra of “Hong Kong is dead” since 2020, the powerful mutual aid and calls for #justice are solid evidence of the continuing #agency of people": lausancollective.com/2025/tai-po-...

Grounding the diasporic turn in political theory: Meta-commitment, transnationalism, and political obligation by Kai Yui Samuel Chan and Anna Closas is now available in Early View. @samuelchan.bsky.social @closasanna.bsky.social ajps.org/2025/11/18/g...

We are most grateful for the support and feedback from @alixabeth.bsky.social, Gio, Antonia, Eero, and our reviewers throughout the process.

It is, we believe, the first attempt to systematically introduce and ground the topic of diaspora in political theory, and while one could reasonably disagree with our argumentation, our intention to create an opening here for potential conversations in the years to come.

My article with @closasanna.bsky.social , “Grounding the Diasporic Turn in Political Theory: Meta-Commitment, Transnationalism, and Political Obligation”, is out on
@ajpseditor.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library Diasporas remain understudied in political theory. To ground a robust engagement with diasporas and their normative challenges, we expand on current transnationalism literature to offer a non-statist...

. @samuelchan.bsky.social & Anna Closas, Grounding the #diasporic turn in political theory: Meta-commitment, #transnationalism, and political obligation:

EP9 「來都來了」談情說性講紅姐 [2025.08.04] YouTube video by 新手上路 On the Road

This week we grappled with the controversy of 紅姐 and the debate on same-sex marriage in Hong Kong to think through gender, sex, and desire in a repressive regime.

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EP8 情感異鄉人 [2025.07.28] For Example 一個政治不正確的香港DEI Podcast · Episode

I joined @kennedywong.bsky.social and @samuelchan.bsky.social on a podcast by and for HKers. In this episode, we talked about the unique loneliness of diasporic/displaced people in feeling like "affect aliens."

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Journal of Political Philosophy Update (guest post) The following is an update on the Journal of Political Philosophy, whose advisory board resigned following a decision by the journal’s publisher, Wiley, to fire its editor, Robert Goodin. The updat...

Is this the end of the Journal of Political Philosophy?