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Contemporary Political Theory

Journal ISSN: 1470-8914 ,1476-9336

JCR: Q1

Impact Factor: 4.9

Articles

On Sympathies and the work of Public Things: Laura Cornelius Kellogg’s Challenge to Lorado Taft’s Eternal Indian Statue and Settler Fantasy

Leila Ben Abdallah
Published: 21 May 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-025-00763-y

The late Marx’s revolutionary roads: colonialism, gender, and indigenous communism

Wayne Wapeemukwa
Published: 06 June 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-025-00764-x

Race, time, and utopia: critical theory and the process of emancipation

Charles Battaglini
Published: 12 June 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-025-00765-w

Subaltern silence: A postcolonial genealogy

Zeus Hans Mendez & Andreas Oberprantacher
Published: 18 June 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-025-00767-8

The two faces of democracy: decentering agonism and deliberation

Max P. Rozenburg
Published: 18 June 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-025-00766-9

The anarchist before the law: law without authority

Christos Marneros
Published: 25 June 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-025-00772-x

What remains: the collected poems of Hannah Arendt

Ariel Yingqi Tang
Published: 26 June 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-025-00771-y

Imagining democratic insurgency: enthusiasm, sublimity, and finitude

Stephen K. White
Published: 26 June 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-025-00768-7
Keywords:Myth,Democracy,Insurgency,Sublimity,Finitude,William E. Connolly

Democracy despite itself: liberal constitutionalism and militant democracy

András Sajó
Published: 29 June 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-025-00770-z

Legalizing the revolution: India and the constitution of the postcolony

Inder S. Marwah
Published: 15 July 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-025-00774-9

Introduction

This journal presents the best work from the wide array of interests that constitute ‘contemporary political theory,’ from post-structuralist thought to analytical philosophy, from feminist theory to international relations theory, from philosophies of the social sciences to the cultural construction of political theory itself.Founded in the UK in 2002, Contemporary Political Theory (CPT) quickly established itself in the top rank of peer-reviewed journals in political theory and philosophy. The journal is now based in both the USA and UK, and reaches out to authors and readers in Europe, Asia and Oceania.Coverage reaches beyond philosophy and political science to include relevant research in geography and anthropology; women’s studies and gender studies; cultural studies and economics; literary theory and film studies; and more.Contemporary Political Theory offers a challenging and eclectic mix of articles that inspire new consideration of what political theory is and does, and promotes lively engagement with contemporary global politics.

 

Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief
Terrell Carver, University of Bristol, UK
Samuel A. Chambers, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Editors
Sarah Bufkin, University of Birmingham, UK
Avigail Eisenberg, University of Victoria, Canada
Ben Golder, University of New South Wales, Australia
John Grant, King’s University College, Canada
Andrew March, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA
Chas. Phillips, Johns Hopkins University, USA
German Primera Villamizar, University of Brighton, UK
Karen Zivi, Grand Valley State University, USA

Managing Editor
David Suell

Book Review Editor
Peter J. Verovšek, University of Sheffield, UK

Critical Exchanges Editor
Çiğdem Çidam, Union College, USA

Consulting Editors
Lisa Disch, University of Michigan, USA
Michaele Ferguson, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA
Andrew Schaap, University of Exeter, UK

Editorial Board Members
Elizabeth Anker, George Washington University, USA
David Archard, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Mark Bevir, University of California, Berkeley, USA
David Boucher, Cardiff University, UK
Bhupinder Brar, Punjab University, India
Gary Browning (Founder Editor), Oxford Brookes University, UK
Daniel Butt, University of Oxford, UK
Molly Cochran, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Conal Condren, University of New South Wales, Australia
William Connolly, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Diana Coole, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Maria Dimova-Cookson, Durham University, UK
Lisa Disch, University of Michigan, USA
Avgail Eisenberg, University of Victoria, Canada
Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, USA
Bradley Evans, University of Bath, UK
Michaele Ferguson, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA
Alan Finlayson, University of East Anglia, UK
Rainer Forst, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Germany
Michael Freeden, University of Oxford, UK
Ben Golder, UNSW, Australia
Xavier Guillaume, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Tim Hayward, University of Edinburgh, UK
David Held, University of Durham, UK
Kimberly Hutchings, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Leigh Jenco, London School of Economics, UK
Yoshiichi Kanaya, Tottori University of Environmental Studies, Japan
Russell Keat, University of Edinburgh, UK
Michael Kenny, University of Cambridge, UK
Nikolas Kompridis, Australian Catholic University, Australia
Will Kymlicka, Queen’s University, Canada
Alexandre Lefebvre, University of Sydney, Australia
Alexander Livingston, Cornell University, USA
Moya Lloyd, Loughborough University, UK
Lori Marso, Union College, USA
John Maynor, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
Mihaela Mihai, University of Edinburgh, UK
Margaret Moore, Queen’s University, Canada
Jeanne Morefield, Whitman College, USA
Chantal Mouffe, University of Westminster, UK
Saul Newman, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
Bhikhu, Baron Parekh, House of Lords, UK
Maurizio Passerin d’Entrèves, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Alan Patten, Princeton University, USA
Raymond Plant, King’s College, London, UK
Raia Prokhovnik (Founder Editor), Open University, UK
Pierre Rosanvallon, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris, France
Michael Saward, University of Warwick, UK
Hideaki Shinoda, Hiroshima University, Japan
Quentin Skinner, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Tony Spanakos, Montclair State University, USA
Geoffrey Stokes, RMIT University, Australia
Simon Tormey, Deakin University, Australia
Joan Tronto, University of Minnesota, USA
James Tully, University of Victoria, Canada
Andrew Valls, Oregon State University, USA
Bert van den Brink, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Rob Walker, University of Victoria, Canada
Robert E. Watkins, Columbia College Chicago, USA
Xiaoping Wei, Philosophy Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, People’s Republic of China
Howard Williams, Cardiff University, UK

Aims & Scope

  • Analytical Philosophy

  • Post-Structuralist Thought

  • Feminist Theory

  • International Relations Theory

  • Philosophies of the Social Sciences

  • Cultural Construction of Political Theory

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