Abstract. The South-South Development Cooperation (SSDC) model empowers development organizations in the Global South through grassroots approaches that challenge top-down donor-recipient frameworks a...

Abstract. Political theory may sometimes be justifiably regarded as fact-defective, not because of the arguments it makes but because of the topics it focuses on. In short, a topic is fact-defective w...

Abstract. Recent legislative changes in the South African migratory system demonstrate that the country has gone from establishing a welcoming refugee system during the postapartheid era to a system t...

In “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific,” Friedrich Engels’s ([1880] 2003: 126) critique of the utopian socialists Henri de Saint-Simon, Charles Fourier, and Robert Owen is scathing. They have created “...

Abstract. The current era of environmental crises and their seeming intractability, particularly in the context of an entrenched capitalist order, has given rise to a deep-felt pessimism about the pos...

Abstract. Stupidity is viewed as the antithesis of enlightened thinking. This article opposes this view. Stupidity is a complicated subject position that resists the hegemonic status of expert knowled...

Abstract. Increasingly, dystopian visions of the future seem to be dominating political discourses, having a particular purchase in a world defined by the catastrophic effects of global climate change...

Abstract. Vegetarianism functions as utopian figuration in neoliberal capitalist society, but not in a productive or radical sense. It is instead reduced to a lifestyle politics, expressed in personal...

The origins of this symposium were an American Political Science Association Annual Meeting panel in Los Angeles in September 2023. The Critical Political Science section panels were rightly canceled ...

Published in New Political Science (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2024)

Published in New Political Science (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2024)

Published in New Political Science (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2024)

This article analyzes three examples of politico-spatial antagonism in Turkey under rising authoritarianism: (1) the reclaiming of Taksim Square during Workers’ Day, Women’s Day, and pride marches,...

This article analyzes three examples of politico-spatial antagonism in Turkey under rising authoritarianism: (1) the reclaiming of Taksim Square during Workers’ Day, Women’s Day, and pride marches,...

This article explores how the meaning of citizenship is articulated and debated in the aftermath of the legal prohibition of the slaughter of cow progeny and making the sale or possession of beef a...

Over the past decade, Brazil has faced overlapping political, economic, and social crises – all of which were exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. This article examines how marginalized residents ...

Published in New Political Science (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2024)

This book examines the capitalist state, Marxist state theory, and state theory's place in broader Marxist political theory.

In this paper we explore how a Citizens’ Assembly project in Auroville – the largest intentional community in the world – sought to prefigure new practices in collective decision-making. A Citizens...

This article contextualizes Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement that emerged in the fall of 2014. We argue that first, the Umbrella Movement was not merely about democracy but must be understood in the c...

While there has been an increase in rhetoric and efforts to block expanding voting rights to noncitizens around the United States, there is a relative lack of academic research examining the ideolo...

Published in New Political Science (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2024)

Published in New Political Science (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2024)

Published in New Political Science (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2024)

Published in New Political Science (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2024)

Despite Adam Smith’s seemingly firm entrenchment within the liberal tradition, in Theory of Moral Sentiments, he forwards several positions that fundamentally challenge this understanding. Chief am...