Join us for a book talk by David Myer Temin from the University of Michigan on his book titled: "Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought" (University of Chicago Press, 2023)

Professor Temin is a political theorist whose research and teaching spans American political thought, Native American studies and politics, comparative and global political thought, and postcolonial and critical race studies. Temin’s research explores how the diverse strands of anticolonial thought help to reconsider central dilemmas of social and environmental justice in empire’s wake, as well as refashioning political concepts such as sovereignty and land.

The book bridges political-intellectual history and conceptual analysis to show how key 20th-century Indigenous intellectuals and activists in lands today claimed by Canada and the United States reshaped the philosophical substance and normative goals of “decolonization.” The book traces how key 20th-century Indigenous intellectuals and activists reshaped the philosophical substance and normative goals of “decolonization.”  It reveals how these conceptual moves and practical efforts to enact decolonization hinged on heavily debated projects of disentangling self-determination from the sovereign-state, the restitution of dispossessed land, autonomy and safety for Indigenous women, and care-based duties of ecological stewardship. 

Sponsored by the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences and the Political Theory Workshop of the Department of Political Science.

Zoom option: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/99008372773