Contemporary Political Theory

Papers
(The median citation count of Contemporary Political Theory is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Listening to Black lives matter: racial capitalism and the critique of neoliberalism42
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory36
The politics of care21
Epistemic oppression, resistance, and resurgence13
James Baldwin and the politics of white identity13
After (post) hegemony12
Politics in the Time of COVID11
Backward-looking reparations and structural injustice9
Theorizing the Politics of Protest: Contemporary Debates on Civil Disobedience8
Political Theory with an Ethnographic Sensibility7
Mourning work: Death and democracy during a pandemic7
Political Agency in Humans and Other Animals7
Carl Schmitt as a theorist of the 1933 Nazi revolution: “The difficult task of rethinking and recultivating traditional concepts”7
The political technology of the ‘Camp’ in historical capitalism7
Being Present: Embodying Political Relations in Indigenous Encounters with the Crown6
Beyond populism and technocracy: The challenges and limits of democratic epistemology6
The boundary problem of democracy: A function-sensitive view5
Ella Baker and the challenge of black rule5
How and Why to Do Just War Theory5
The politics of repair5
People die in six ways and each is politics: Infrastructure and the possible5
Listening obliquely: Listening as norm and strategy for structural justice4
Cannibal capitalism: how our system is devouring democracy, care, and the planet—and what we can do about it4
Democratic philanthropy4
The Political Force of the Comedic4
The model of the legislator: Political theory, policy, and realist utopianism3
On canons and question marks: The work of women’s international thought3
‘After Auschwitz’: Writing history after injustice in Adorno and Lyotard3
Valuation practices and the cooptation charge: Quantification and monetization as political logics3
Breaking billboards: protest and a politics of play3
Beyond technofix: Thinking with Epimetheus in the anthropocene3
Bataille’s anti-fascism3
The animal condition in the human condition: Rethinking Arendt’s political action beyond the human species3
Foucault on psychagogy and the politics of education3
Spinoza: thoughts on hope in our political present3
A hard case for the ethics of supported voting: Cognitive and communicative disabilities, and incommunicability2
The politics of precarity2
Abjection and mourning in the struggle over fetal remains2
Truth versus ignorance in democratic politics: An existentialist perspective on the democratic promise of political freedom2
Against instinctual reason: Alain Badiou on the disinterested interest of truth procedures in the post-truth era2
The Epistemic Value of Testimony2
Constituent power and its institutions2
The political implication of the ‘untraceability’ of structural injustice2
The architectures of waiting: Helmut Puff and Bernardo Zacka in conversation2
Necropolitics2
Comparative political theory, indigenous resurgence, and epistemic justice: From deparochialization to treaty2
‘A fruit of every clime’? Rousseau’s environmental politics1
The persistence of myth: Brazil’s undead ‘racial democracy’1
Companion Ecologies: A New Theory of the Subject1
Politics as ‘Sinister Wisdom’: Reparation and responsibility in lesbian feminism1
Ecologizing democratic theory: Agency, representation, animacy1
Sartre antihumaniste: Antisujectivisme, marxisme critique, postcolonialisme1
Cloud ethics: Algorithms and the attributes of ourselves and others1
The limits of subtractive politics: Agamben and Rousseau’s inheritance1
Violence and Revolutionary Change1
Security and democratic equality1
The sumud within: Walid Daka’s abolitionist decolonization1
The green case for a randomly selected chamber1
Justice beyond repair: Negative Dialectics and the politics of guilt and atonement1
Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory1
Legitimacy crises in embedded democracies1
The enduring significance of cruelty1
From the theater to the hippodrome: A critique of Jeffrey Green’s theory of plebiscitary democracy and an alternative1
Oppression and racial slavery: Abolitionist challenges to neo-republicanism1
A green theory of technological change: Ecologism and the case for technological scepticism1
The inter-est between us: Ontology, epistemology, and the failure of political representation1
Authoritarian Populism, Democracy and the Long Counter-Revolution of the Radical Right1
The open society and the challenge of populism: Solution and problem1
Slavery with extra steps: conceptualising impersonal market domination1
Laughter as dissensus: Kant and the limits of normative theorizing around laughter1
Police abolition1
The consequences of liberal modernity: Explaining and resisting neoliberalism through Alasdair MacIntyre1
Violent borders, citizenship and the politics of migration0
Shall we forget human nature? Political anthropology and technics from Marx and Engels to Simondon0
Return to Ecotopia?0
Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism0
Critique on the couch: Why Critical Theory needs psychoanalysis0
The dangerous class: The concept of the lumpenproletariat0
The humanity of universal crime: inclusion, inequality, and intervention in international political thought0
Teaching political theory: A pluralistic approach0
Public space democracy: performative, visual and normative dimensions of politics in a global age0
Contemporary political theory annual prize 2022 (volume 20)0
Global justice and social conflict: The foundations of liberal order and international law0
Truth and its political forms: an explorative cartography0
Militant acts: The role of investigations in radical political struggles0
Correction to: The enduring significance of cruelty0
Visions of council democracy: Castoriadis, Lefort, Arendt0
The problem of value pluralism. Isaiah Berlin and beyond0
Feminist sexual futures0
Democracy Rules0
Climate machines, fascist drives and truth0
This is Us: Imagination, identity, and American racial hierarchy0
Nietzsche, irrationalism, and the cruel irony of Adorno and Horkheimer’s political quietude0
Correction to: Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding0
No other planet: Utopian visions for a climate-changed world0
A realistic blacktopia: Why we must unite to fight0
Political theology of international order0
Mute compulsion: A Marxist theory of the economic power of capital0
The Oxford handbook of global justice0
Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance0
Thin sympathy: A strategy to thicken transitional justice0
The art of parasitical resistance0
Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding0
The Poetics of Failure in Simone de Beauvoir’s Les bouches inutiles0
Liberalism in dark times: The liberal ethos in the twentieth century0
Walter Benjamin’s antifascist education: from riddles to radio0
Multiculturalism and the nation in Germany: a study in moral conflict0
Towards an improper politics0
The credit they deserve: contesting predictive practices and the afterlives of red-lining0
Toni Morrison and political theory0
Realism: A distinctively 20th-century European tradition0
Democracy and exclusion0
Freedom, democracy and constitutionalism in Europe0
Practical necessity, freedom, and history: From Hobbes to Marx0
Conservatism0
Deweyan experimentalism and the problem of method in political philosophy0
Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand & 1969 Vincennes lectures0
Constituent power in the European Union0
Contemporary political theory annual prize for 2023 (volume 21)0
Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology0
In the street: Democratic action, theatricality, and political friendship0
Modern philosopher kings: wisdom and power in politics0
Deliberative Democracy0
From sound to music: Listening to the political with Gilles Deleuze0
Genesis and validity: The theory and practice of intellectual history0
The enabling value of group vulnerability0
Victory: The triumph and tragedy of just war0
A tirania dos poderes coniventes: O Brasil na conjuntura0
Annual Prize of £500 for an article published in volume 18, 20190
Carl Schmitt’s early legal-theoretical writings: Statute and judgment and the value of the state and the significance of the individual0
Resisting neoliberal capitalism in Chile: The possibility of social critique0
Failing to see what matters most: Towards a better understanding of dehumanisation0
Duncan Bell, Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America. Princeton University Press, 20200
Correction to: Constituent assemblies0
How we became our data: A genealogy of the informational person0
Material conditions and human freedom0
The prehistory of private property: Implications for modern political theory0
Feminist afterlives: The defenses and dead ends of revisionist history0
The Politics of German Idealism: Law and Social Change at the Turn of the 19th Century0
In the shadow of totalitarianism: Action, judgement and evil in politics0
Building power to change the world: The political thought of the German council movement0
Annual Prize of £500 for an article published in volume 19, 20200
Perpetuation as perpetration: Wrongful benefit and responsibility for historical injustice0
Seeing like an activist: Civil disobedience and the civil rights movement0
Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction0
Life after privacy: Reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society0
Radical enfranchisement in the jury room and public life0
Cruelty as citizenship: How migrant suffering sustains white democracy0
Disenchanting Global Justice: Liberalism, Capitalism and Finance0
Also a history of philosophy, volume I: The project of a genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking0
A feminist theory of refusal0
Critique of rights0
Soldiers of God in a secular world: Catholic theology and twentieth-century French politics0
Between Gaia and ground: Four axioms of existence and the ancestral catastrophe of late liberalism0
Theft is property! Dispossession and critical theory0
‘I Felt Like a Bird Without Wings’: incorporating the study of emotions into grounded normative theory0
Affluence and freedom: An environmental history of political ideas0
Rediscovering Political Friendship. Aristotle’s Theory and Modern Identity, Community, and Equality0
Genealogies of terrorism: Revolution, state violence, empire0
Correction to: Revolts, migrations and their boundaries0
Visionary political theory0
Worldly shame: Ethos in action0
From missed opportunities to future possibilities: Towards an improper politics0
Kant’s nonideal theory of politics0
Securing white democracy: Guns and the politics of whiteness0
The work of politics: Making a democratic welfare state0
Marx, revolution, and social democracy0
Wayward lives, beautiful experiments: Intimate histories of social upheaval0
Militant conversion in a prison of the mind: Malcolm X and Spinoza on domination and freedom0
Beyond reason: Postcolonial theory and the social sciences0
The principle of political hope: progress, action, and democracy in modern thought0
Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt0
The power of political representation0
Liberalism against itself: cold war intellectuals and the making of our times0
Praxis and revolution: A theory of social transformation0
Hope in a secular age: Deconstruction, negative theology, and the future of faith0
The Habermas/Rawls debate0
Ecology, labor, politics: Violence in Arendt’s Vita Activa0
Regaining control over precarity0
Defensive relativism: The use of cultural relativism in international legal practice0
Radical proceduralism: Democracy from philosophical principles to political institutions0
Platform socialism: How to reclaim our digital future from big tech0
Development as rebellion: A biography of Julius Nyerere0
The liberalism of care: community, philosophy, and ethics0
Political science pedagogy: A critical, radical, and utopian perspective0
Agents of change: political philosophy in practice0
The democratic sublime: On aesthetics and popular assembly0
William Pietz: The problem of the fetish0
The Left Case for Brexit. Reflections on the Current Crisis0
Lauren Berlant’s legacy in contemporary political theory0
The humble cosmopolitan: Rights, diversity, and trans-state democracy0
Colonial capitalism and the dilemmas of liberalism0
Political action and the philosophy of mind0
Democracy without shortcuts: A participatory conception of deliberative democracy0
‘The Kids don’t want reconciliation, they want Land Back’: thinking about decolonization and settler solidarity after the death of reconciliation0
Critique & praxis: A critical philosophy of illusions, values, and action0
Revolts, migrations and their boundaries0
Worldmaking after empire: The rise and fall of self-determination0
Rawls’s egalitarianism0
John Rawls: The path to a theory of justice0
The visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the power of philosophy in dark times0
Restitution and the politics of repair: Tropes, imaginaries, theories0
Method to the madness: Reading Foucault between geometry and brackets0
Ethnocentric political theory, secularism and multiculturalism0
The future lost and how to reclaim it0
Capitalism and democracy in the twenty-first century: A global future beyond nationalism0
Care ethics in theory and practice: Joan C. Tronto in conversation with Iris Parra Jounou0
The politics of twenty-first century socialism0
The limits of scientific reason: Habermas, Foucault, and science as a social institution0
Systemic corruption: Constitutional ideas for an anti-oligarchic republic0
Plato and the mythic tradition in political thought0
Solar politics0
A mirror for the crowds: the mediated terrain of political leadership in post-revolutionary Iran0
Environmental political theory0
Democracy against liberalism: its rise and fall0
Care ethics, democratic citizenship and the state0
Illegal: How America's lawless immigration regime threatens us all0
Constituent assemblies0
Contesting conformity: Democracy and the paradox of political belonging0
Political fatalism and the (im)possibility of social transformation0
Anticolonial eruptions: racial hubris and the cunning of resistance0
Reclaiming care: refusal, nullification, and decolonial politics0
A philosopher’s economist: Hume and the rise of capitalism0
Modernity’s exclusions0
Languages of transnational revolution: The ‘Republicans of Nacogdoches’ and ideological code-switching in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands0
Kant’s grounded cosmopolitanism: original common possession and the right to visit0
Correction to: The Epistemic Value of Testimony0
The moment of rupture: Historical consciousness in interwar German thought0
Publisher Correction to: The principle of political hope: progress, action, and democracy in modern thought0
Who needs a world view?0
Conservative liberalism, ordoliberalism and the state0
Transnational cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and justice as a political craft0
(Un)realistic utopia: Rethinking political legitimacy, democracy, and resistance in China0
The claims of experience: autobiography and American democracy0
Left populism, commons and radical democracy: counter-hegemonic alliances in our times0
Left populism in Europe: Lessons from Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos0
Immigration and freedom0
Beyond ‘contemporary relevance’: Reading critical theory today0
The gender of critical theory: On the experiential grounds of critique0
José Medina, The epistemology of protest: silencing, epistemic activism, and the communicative life of resistance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)0
Reconsidering reparations0
Sexualized violence and feminist counter-violence0
Constituent power and the law0
Shari‘a, inshallah: Finding God in Somali legal politics0
Tragedy, education, democracy: J. Peter Euben’s Political Theory0
In defense of tempered progressive patriotism0
Disability and political theory0
Strikes, civil rights, and radical disobedience: From King to Debs and back0
Hope after ‘the end of the world’: rethinking critique in the Anthropocene0
European disunion: democracy, sovereignty and the politics of emergency0
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