From the Editors

We are excited to reprint our announcement already circulated on social media for a special issue to mark the 50th anniversary of Political Theory:

FUTURES OF POLITICAL THEORY: A FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY CONFABULATION

Call for Proposals

Submission Deadline: October 8, 2021

This coming year will be the fiftieth of Political Theory’s publication. We are celebrating a half-century of political theorizing with an anniversary issue comprised of futures: What will political theory look and sound like in the next century and beyond? What claims might political theorists or their descendants be making in ten, twenty-five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How might they vindicate those claims in their future contexts? How will the consistent concerns of political theorists evolve into the questions critical for people decades or centuries from now? What new problems will engage the political theorists (or their rough equivalents) of the future? What forms might those take? We invite your proposed answers to these questions, written from an imagined future perspective.

We call on the global community of political theorists and people who love political theory to join us in a fiftieth anniversary confabulation. Insofar as we are able in these times, let us gather over hot or cold drinks, in seminar rooms, in each other’s favourite places, and think about what we have been able to do and what we and our scholarly descendants might yet achieve. Let us also hunker down in libraries with our favourite texts and our sober senses, imagining what might be read, written, and thought many years hence.

Please send brief (200–500 word) proposals to pt@polisci.ucla.edu by October 8, 2021. Specify the date, form, length, and topic of the proposed imaginative work, along with anything else the selection panel would need to know. For example, one might propose to write a 3,000- word lecture on the history of affluent (twenty-first century) political philosophy given by a teacher in a far future “broken world” characterised by famine and extremes of weather and scarcity. ¹ More cheerful confabulations are also welcome, of course, as are proposals whose form itself reflects the imaginative futurist work of the author. We welcome proposals written from positions of marginality, proposals from groups whose members are not alike in their outlook, proposals written by one person from their university office. . . . In short, we welcome a wide variety of engagements with the political theory of the future.

Proposals will be reviewed by a panel chaired by the co-editors, and contributions commissioned by late October. Full submissions are due the first of April 2022. These will be peer reviewed in time for final manuscripts to be submitted on the first of June 2022.

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Throughout our first year of editing this journal, it has been a great pleasure to interact with the scholars who make up our intellectual community. We want to thank all of you who have submitted your research to the journal. It has been especially inspiring to see the ways in which articles have been improved by the careful, thorough, and thoughtful reports of peer referees. Refereeing is a time-consuming task that is not well-compensated. But it is one of the things that is important to making our profession into an intellectual community. And it is essential to making Political Theory the excellent journal that it is. We are pleased to thank the following individuals who wrote referee reports for us from September 1, 2020, to July 31, 2021:

Farid Abdel-Nour, Paul Apostolidis, Andreas Avgousti, Samuel Bagg, Hussein Banai, Banu Bargu, Alyssa Battistoni, Lisa Beard, Teresa Bejan, Seyla Benhabib, Davina Bhandar, Udit Bhatia, Anuja Bose, Richard Boyd, Peter Breiner, Corey Brettschneider, Michaelle Browers, Rachel Brown, Peter Cannavò, Mauro Caraccioli, Simone Chambers, Joan Cocks, Maeve Cooke, Florian Cord, Aurelian Craiutu, Cara Daggett, Adam Dahl, Lisa Disch, Stefan Dolgert, Thomas Dumm, Kevin Duong, Stefan Eich, Blake Emerson, Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Sandra Field, Stefanie Fishel, Jennifer Forestal, Jill Frank, Elizabeth Frazer, Eli Friedlander, Valentina Gentile, Larry George, Simon Gilhooley, Katherine Goktepe, Ben Golder, Loren Goldman, Katherine Gordy, Ashley Gorham, Sean Gray, John G. Gunnell, Elisabeth Haller, Lawrence Hamilton, Ryan Hanley, Samantha Hill, Christopher Holman, Daniel HoSang, Malte Ibsen, Murad Idris, Onur Ince, Leigh Jenco, Steven Johnston, Vince Jungkunz, Alan Kahan, Edward Kazarian, Pinar Kemerli, Tae-Yeoun Keum, Steven Klein, George Klosko, Rita Koganzon, Neveser Koker, Sharon Krause, Michelle Kundmueller, Sandra Laugier, Maxime Lepoutre, Ainsley LeSure, Jacob Levy, Susan Liebell, Adrian Little, Jill Locke, Ferris Lupino, Minkah Makalani, Jane Mansbridge, Karuna Mantena, Robyn Marasco, Shannon Mariotti, Patchen Markell, Elizabeth Markovits, James Martel, Samuele Mazzolini, Keally McBride, Benjamin McKean, Utz McKnight, Michael McLendon, Alison McQueen, Susan McWilliams, Pratap Mehta, Tamara Metz, Anoop Mirpuri, Ross Mittiga, Margaret Moore, Matthew Moore, Emily Nacol, Alexandra Neame, Benno Netelenbos, Robert Nichols, Andrew Norris, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Milad Odabaei, Stephen Ogden, Kevin Olson, Nanda Oudejans, David Owen, Anthony Pagden, Terry Pinkard, Rebecca Ploof, Michael Quinn, Anupama Rao, Jason Read, Matthew Reeck, David Reidy, Neil Roberts, Shalini Satkunanandan, Emma Saunders-Hastings, Arlene Saxonhouse, William Scheuerman, Joel Schlosser, Ronald Schmidt Jr., Morton Schoolman, Heike Schotten, Caleb Scoville, Kris Sealey, Assaf Sharon, George Shulman, Giulia Sissa, Matt Sleat, Quinn Slobodian, Christian Sorace, Paulina Sosnowska, Ramesh Srinivasan, Peter Stone, Simon Stow, Lucas Swaine, Jacinda Swanson, Jasmine Syedullah, Nicholas Tampio, Christina Tarnopolsky, David Temin, Brandon Terry, Jonny Thakkar, Mathias Thaler, Janna Thompson, Jeffrey Tulis, Jack Turner, Javier Uriarte, Inés Valdez, Jens van ‘t Klooster, Bart van Leeuwen, Dimitris Vardoulakis, Timothy Vasko, Timothy Walligore, Paul Weithman, Brendon Westler, Yves Winter, Fabio Wolkenstein, Clare Woodford, Bernard Yack, and Catherine Zuckert.