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About Yi Ning Chang
Yi Ning Chang is a PhD Candidate in political theory at Harvard’s Department of Government. She is writing a dissertation on the end of anticolonial politics. Through a study of 1950s–60s Southeast Asia, the project theorizes the relationship between critique and action in order to retell the global history of anticolonial thought. Based on archival and library work in four languages and six countries, the dissertation intervenes in the political theory of anticolonialism and empire, as well as related debates in the history of twentieth-century political thought. Yi Ning Chang is a PhD candidate in political theory at the Department of Government at Harvard University. She is a political theorist and intellectual historian with research interests in twentieth-century and postcolonial political thought. She specializes in Southeast Asia and the global history of anticolonialism. Yi Ning can be reached at yiningchang@g.harvard.edu.
NBN Episodes hosted by Yi:
August 24, 2024
Waiting for the People
Indians, their former British rulers asserted, were unfit to rule themselves. Behind this assertion lay a foundational claim about the absence of peop…
February 17, 2023
The Counterinsurgent Imagination
Counterinsurgency, the violent suppression of armed insurrection, is among the dominant kinds of war in contemporary world politics. Often linked to p…
June 25, 2021
Lawmaking under Pressure
Giovanni Mantilla’s new book, Lawmaking under Pressure: International Humanitarian Law and Internal Armed Conflict (Cornell University Press, 2020), t…
June 15, 2021
An Infinite History
Emma Rothschild’s new book, An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2021) (see the book…
March 24, 2021
Decolonizing Politics
Robbie Shilliam’s new book for the Polity Press’s “Decolonizing the Curriculum” series explores how the discipline of political science was born of co…
February 12, 2021
Dreamworlds of Race
Published in December 2020, Duncan Bell’s Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America (Princeton University Press, 2020) conc…
February 9, 2021
Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt
In this conversation, Sara Salem, author of Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony (Cambridge University Press, 2020), talks to ho…