Vicki Hsueh

Professor

About

Vicki Hsueh is a professor in the Department of Political Science, an affiliated member of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, and on the Advisory Board for the Department of Ethnic Studies. She joined the faculty at WWU in 2003. Her research interests include protest movements and the politics of refusal, decolonial theory and indigenous politics, health activism, and gender studies. 

She is the author of Hybrid Constitutions: Making and Unmaking Power and Privilege in Colonial America and articles on colonialism, politics, and empire in Contemporary Political Theory, the Review of Politics, the History of Political Thought, and the Journal of the History of Ideas. Her current book project, Making Care: From Affective Refusal to Democratic Worldmaking, examines the role of affect and history in direct action protest.

Prof. Hsueh teaches courses in political theory, including: Introduction to Political Theory, Classical Political Thought, Renaissance and Modern Political Thought, American Political Thought, Contemporary Political Theory, Race and Political Theory, Issues in Political Theory, and Feminist Political Theory.  

 

Selected Publications

Book

  • Hybrid Constitutions: Making and Unmaking Power and Privilege in Colonial America, Duke University  Press (2010).

Book Chapters

  • “Haunani-Kay Trask, Ka Lāhui Hawai’i, and Indigenous Sovereignty.” Global Political Theory, edited by Kate Gordy, Shirin Deylami, and Smita Rahman (Routledge, December 2022).
  • "Reparations, Refusals, and Grief: Idle No More and Democratic Mourning” in Democratic Politics of Mourning, edited volume by David McIvor and Alexander Hirsch (Lexington Press, February 2019).
  • “Under Negotiation: Empowering Treaty Constitutionalism" in Colonialism and Its Legacies, edited by Iris Marion Young and Jacob Levy (Lexington Press, Fall 2011).

Articles

  • "Reclaiming Care: Refusal, Nullification, and Decolonial Politics,” Contemporary Political Theory, May 2023, 23(1):1-21.
  • "Intoxicated Reasons, Rational Feelings: Rethinking the Early Modern English Public Sphere,” Review of Politics, Winter 2016.
  • "Unsettling Colonies: Locke, 'Atlantis,' and New World Knowledges," History of Political Thought. 2008 (29).
  • "Cultivating and Challenging the Common: Lockean Property, Indigenous Traditionalisms, and the Problem of Exclusion," Contemporary Political Theory. 2006 (5): 193-214.
  • "Giving Orders: Theory and Practice in the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina," Journal of the History of Ideas, 2002: 425-446.