Contemporary Political Theory

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory54
The politics of care26
Epistemic oppression, resistance, and resurgence23
Backward-looking reparations and structural injustice15
Politics in the Time of COVID11
The Political Force of the Comedic6
Beyond technofix: Thinking with Epimetheus in the anthropocene6
The boundary problem of democracy: A function-sensitive view5
How and Why to Do Just War Theory5
People die in six ways and each is politics: Infrastructure and the possible4
Cannibal capitalism: how our system is devouring democracy, care, and the planet—and what we can do about it4
The politics of repair4
Valuation practices and the cooptation charge: Quantification and monetization as political logics3
Comparative political theory, indigenous resurgence, and epistemic justice: From deparochialization to treaty3
Bataille’s anti-fascism3
The animal condition in the human condition: Rethinking Arendt’s political action beyond the human species3
‘After Auschwitz’: Writing history after injustice in Adorno and Lyotard3
The model of the legislator: Political theory, policy, and realist utopianism3
On canons and question marks: The work of women’s international thought3
The inter-est between us: Ontology, epistemology, and the failure of political representation2
The political implication of the ‘untraceability’ of structural injustice2
The architectures of waiting: Helmut Puff and Bernardo Zacka in conversation2
Lauren Berlant’s legacy in contemporary political theory2
The persistence of myth: Brazil’s undead ‘racial democracy’2
Failing to see what matters most: Towards a better understanding of dehumanisation2
The green case for a randomly selected chamber2
Cloud ethics: Algorithms and the attributes of ourselves and others2
The Epistemic Value of Testimony2
Constituent power and its institutions2
A hard case for the ethics of supported voting: Cognitive and communicative disabilities, and incommunicability2
Against instinctual reason: Alain Badiou on the disinterested interest of truth procedures in the post-truth era2
Police abolition2
Justice beyond repair: Negative Dialectics and the politics of guilt and atonement1
A feminist theory of refusal1
Legitimacy crises in embedded democracies1
The dangerous class: The concept of the lumpenproletariat1
From the theater to the hippodrome: A critique of Jeffrey Green’s theory of plebiscitary democracy and an alternative1
Democratic self-government and the algocratic shortcut: the democratic harms in algorithmic governance of society1
The sumud within: Walid Daka’s abolitionist decolonization1
Democratic renewal and the spirit of democracy1
Authoritarian Populism, Democracy and the Long Counter-Revolution of the Radical Right1
Securing white democracy: Guns and the politics of whiteness1
The open society and the challenge of populism: Solution and problem1
Ecologizing democratic theory: Agency, representation, animacy1
Slavery with extra steps: conceptualising impersonal market domination1
Duncan Bell, Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America. Princeton University Press, 20201
Violence and Revolutionary Change1
Companion Ecologies: A New Theory of the Subject1
Rawls’s egalitarianism1
Truth and its political forms: an explorative cartography1
Politics as ‘Sinister Wisdom’: Reparation and responsibility in lesbian feminism1
Left populism, commons and radical democracy: counter-hegemonic alliances in our times1
Sartre antihumaniste: Antisujectivisme, marxisme critique, postcolonialisme1
Hope after ‘the end of the world’: rethinking critique in the Anthropocene1
Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding1
The future of political theory: Lippincott lecture1
The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses1
‘A fruit of every clime’? Rousseau’s environmental politics1
Critique of rights1
Platform socialism: How to reclaim our digital future from big tech1
Shari‘a, inshallah: Finding God in Somali legal politics0
In defense of tempered progressive patriotism0
The Politics of German Idealism: Law and Social Change at the Turn of the 19th Century0
Constituent power in the European Union0
The future lost and how to reclaim it0
Transnational cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and justice as a political craft0
Critique & praxis: A critical philosophy of illusions, values, and action0
Feminist sexual futures0
Political fatalism and the (im)possibility of social transformation0
Democracy Rules0
Feminist afterlives: The defenses and dead ends of revisionist history0
Victory: The triumph and tragedy of just war0
Migrants in the profane0
The gender of critical theory: On the experiential grounds of critique0
Democracy against liberalism: its rise and fall0
Regaining control over precarity0
Correction to: The Epistemic Value of Testimony0
The (anti)-democratic spirit of populism0
The problem of value pluralism. Isaiah Berlin and beyond0
Stanley Cavell’s democratic perfectionism: community, individuality, and post-truth politics0
A philosopher’s economist: Hume and the rise of capitalism0
Militant conversion in a prison of the mind: Malcolm X and Spinoza on domination and freedom0
Correction to: Constituent assemblies0
The two faces of democracy: Decentering agonism and deliberation0
Citizen knowledge: markets, experts, and the infrastructure of democracy0
Soldiers of God in a secular world: Catholic theology and twentieth-century French politics0
Neoliberal fascism? Fascist trends in early neoliberal thought and echoes in the present0
The Poetics of Failure in Simone de Beauvoir’s Les bouches inutiles0
‘I Felt Like a Bird Without Wings’: incorporating the study of emotions into grounded normative theory0
The universal enemy: Jihad, empire, and the challenge of solidarity0
On critical genealogy0
Also a history of philosophy, volume I: The project of a genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking0
Development as rebellion: A biography of Julius Nyerere0
The humanity of universal crime: inclusion, inequality, and intervention in international political thought0
The cultivation of the ear: practices of political listening and The Belief in Intuition0
Modernity’s exclusions0
Contesting conformity: Democracy and the paradox of political belonging0
Democracy’s resilience to populism’s threat0
Solar politics0
Revolts, migrations and their boundaries0
Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism0
Languages of transnational revolution: The ‘Republicans of Nacogdoches’ and ideological code-switching in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands0
Visions of council democracy: Castoriadis, Lefort, Arendt0
Affluence and freedom: An environmental history of political ideas0
A green theory of technological change: Ecologism and the case for technological scepticism0
Correction: Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating0
Marx, revolution, and social democracy0
The Atlantic realists: empire and international political thought between Germany and the USA0
Plato and the mythic tradition in political thought0
Deweyan experimentalism and the problem of method in political philosophy0
Anarchafeminism0
Streaming and blocking: how to take back the streets (for democratic theory)0
Contemporary political theory annual prize 2022 (volume 20)0
The right-wing mirror of critical theory: studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand0
Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance0
Reckoning: Black lives matter and the democratic necessity of social movements0
Conservative liberalism, ordoliberalism and the state0
Perpetuation as perpetration: Wrongful benefit and responsibility for historical injustice0
European disunion: democracy, sovereignty and the politics of emergency0
Kant’s nonideal theory of politics0
Liberalism in dark times: The liberal ethos in the twentieth century0
Method to the madness: Reading Foucault between geometry and brackets0
Immigration and freedom0
Care ethics in theory and practice: Joan C. Tronto in conversation with Iris Parra Jounou0
Genesis and validity: The theory and practice of intellectual history0
Anticolonial eruptions: racial hubris and the cunning of resistance0
Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction0
Carl Schmitt’s early legal-theoretical writings: Statute and judgment and the value of the state and the significance of the individual0
The enabling value of group vulnerability0
The prehistory of private property: Implications for modern political theory0
The influence of German emigration on American intellectual life: philosophy and sociology0
Conservatism0
Building power to change the world: The political thought of the German council movement0
Who needs a world view?0
Realism: A distinctively 20th-century European tradition0
Systemic corruption: Constitutional ideas for an anti-oligarchic republic0
Global justice and social conflict: The foundations of liberal order and international law0
Constituent assemblies0
Instituting thought: Three paradigms of political ontology0
The claims of experience: autobiography and American democracy0
Mute compulsion: A Marxist theory of the economic power of capital0
Judith Butler and Politics0
The principle of political hope: progress, action, and democracy in modern thought0
Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics0
The limits of scientific reason: Habermas, Foucault, and science as a social institution0
Designing for democracy: How to build community in digital environments0
Walter Benjamin’s antifascist education: from riddles to radio0
The democratic sublime: On aesthetics and popular assembly0
Correction to: Revolts, migrations and their boundaries0
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution0
Digital working lives: worker autonomy and the gig-economy0
Ecology, labor, politics: Violence in Arendt’s Vita Activa0
Non-living politics0
Feminist approaches to environmental politics0
Walter Benjamin and the idea of natural history0
Publisher Correction to: The principle of political hope: progress, action, and democracy in modern thought0
Environmental political theory0
The work of politics: Making a democratic welfare state0
‘The Kids don’t want reconciliation, they want Land Back’: thinking about decolonization and settler solidarity after the death of reconciliation0
Public space democracy: performative, visual and normative dimensions of politics in a global age0
Democracy and exclusion0
The art of parasitical resistance0
Shall we forget human nature? Political anthropology and technics from Marx and Engels to Simondon0
Contemporary political theory annual prize for 2023 (volume 21)0
A realistic blacktopia: Why we must unite to fight0
Material conditions and human freedom0
Thin sympathy: A strategy to thicken transitional justice0
Towards an improper politics0
Cruelty as citizenship: How migrant suffering sustains white democracy0
A mirror for the crowds: the mediated terrain of political leadership in post-revolutionary Iran0
Facing authority: a theory of political legitimacy0
Illusion and fetishism in critical theory: a study of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis, and the situationists0
Multiculturalism and the nation in Germany: a study in moral conflict0
Left is not woke0
Hope in a secular age: Deconstruction, negative theology, and the future of faith0
Anarchism mainstreamed? On recent trends, challenges and opportunities in anarchist scholarship0
Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology0
Grand narratives in critical international theory0
The poverty of our freedom0
The Oxford handbook of global justice0
Visionary political theory0
Deliberative Democracy0
Practical necessity, freedom, and history: From Hobbes to Marx0
From sound to music: Listening to the political with Gilles Deleuze0
Reconsidering reparations0
William Pietz: The problem of the fetish0
Perfectionism as a requirement of justice: natural law, political authority, and the common good0
The liberalism of care: community, philosophy, and ethics0
Democracy without shortcuts: A participatory conception of deliberative democracy0
José Medina, The epistemology of protest: silencing, epistemic activism, and the communicative life of resistance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)0
Agents of change: political philosophy in practice0
Beyond reason: Postcolonial theory and the social sciences0
Violent borders, citizenship and the politics of migration0
The humble cosmopolitan: Rights, diversity, and trans-state democracy0
A precarious happiness: Adorno and the sources of normativity0
The power of political representation0
Critique on the couch: Why Critical Theory needs psychoanalysis0
Radical proceduralism: Democracy from philosophical principles to political institutions0
Restitution and the politics of repair: Tropes, imaginaries, theories0
Freedom, democracy and constitutionalism in Europe0
Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt0
Between Gaia and ground: Four axioms of existence and the ancestral catastrophe of late liberalism0
Seeing like an activist: Civil disobedience and the civil rights movement0
No other planet: Utopian visions for a climate-changed world0
Global justice, natural resources, and climate change0
Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand & 1969 Vincennes lectures0
Paths to a world without families: reasons, means, and ends in family abolitionism0
Kant’s grounded cosmopolitanism: original common possession and the right to visit0
Teaching political theory: A pluralistic approach0
Insurgent truth. Chelsea Manning and the politics of outsider truth-telling0
This is Us: Imagination, identity, and American racial hierarchy0
Confucian democratic constitutionalism0
Modern philosopher kings: wisdom and power in politics0
Correction to: Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding0
A phenomenology of abuse: discursive cornering, gaslighting, and institutionalized vulnerability0
Breaking intersubjectivity: a critical theory of counter-revolutionary trauma in Egypt0
Intervention before interventionism: a global genealogy0
Life after privacy: Reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society0
Hegel’s world revolutions0
Unsettling the world: Edward Said and political theory0
Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating0
Political theology of international order0
Sexualized violence and feminist counter-violence0
The visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the power of philosophy in dark times0
Return to Ecotopia?0
Disability and political theory0
From missed opportunities to future possibilities: Towards an improper politics0
Strikes, civil rights, and radical disobedience: From King to Debs and back0
In the street: Democratic action, theatricality, and political friendship0
Politics and expertise: How to use science in a democratic society0
Worldly shame: Ethos in action0
Colonial pasts, racial capitalism, and coloniality0
The politics of twenty-first century socialism0
In the shadow of totalitarianism: Action, judgement and evil in politics0
The picnic: an escape to freedom and the collapse of the iron curtain0
A new structural transformation of the public sphere and deliberative politics0
Worldmaking after empire: The rise and fall of self-determination0
Marxism and the capitalist state: Towards a new debate0
Beyond ‘contemporary relevance’: Reading critical theory today0
The right to sex0
Defensive relativism: The use of cultural relativism in international legal practice0
The agonistic path towards populism: Mouffe, the left and its democratic crossroads0
Left populism in Europe: Lessons from Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos0
Care ethics, democratic citizenship and the state0
Reclaiming care: refusal, nullification, and decolonial politics0
Annual Prize of £500 for an article published in volume 19, 20200
Praxis and revolution: A theory of social transformation0
The past and present of catholic anti-liberalism0
Liberalism against itself: cold war intellectuals and the making of our times0
The credit they deserve: contesting predictive practices and the afterlives of red-lining0
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