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“What Should We Do about ISIS?”: Religion, Terrorism, and Facts That Matter

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New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Aug 4

In his most recent piece in NPS 47.2, Ben Cross analyzes several articles published in the Critique in 2015 and 2016 in an interrogation of political theoretical perspectives on religion and terrorism. read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article-...

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...

Securitizing Migration in South Africa: From Welcoming Refugees to Dealing with Security Threats

New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

In NPS 47.2, Laura Planas Gifra unpacks the dynamics of migration and security in the current scheme of South African legislative politics. Read her research article here: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article-...

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...

Caucus for a Critical Political Science’s 2024 Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award | New Political Science | Duke University Press

New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

Read Victor Wallis’ reflection on the contributions of our 2024 Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award winners, Nancy Love and Bradley Macdonald, in our most recent edition of NPS: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article-...

Utopias: Impossible, Practical, Radical: Closing

New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

To close out our 47.1 symposium, Nancy Love offers words of closing and connection. read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...

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 “...

Violence, Nonviolence, and the Utopian Structure of Environmental Democracy: Benjamin’s Utopian Moment

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New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jul 14

Michael Lipscomb offers an engagement with environmental pessimism and the potential of utopia in NPS 47.1: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...

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...

New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jul 14

William Sokoloff stands “In Defense of Stupidity”. Intrigued? Us too: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...

In Defense of Stupidity

Utopias, Radical Imaginaries, and Political Action

New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jul 14

Bradley J. Macdonald considers the radical potential of utopian thinking on the furthering of democracy in an installment of our 47.1 symposium. Read his work here: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...

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...

Vegetarianism as Utopian Figuration

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New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jul 3

Read Katherine Young’s work on vegetarianism as a radical challenge to capitalist politics in our 47.1 Utopia symposium: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...

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...

Utopias: Impossible, Practical, Radical: Introduction

New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jul 3

William Niemi introduces our recent symposium on Utopias, originating at the 2023 APSA meeting, in the final section of NPS 47.1: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...

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 ...

The “Emerging Democratic Majority” | New Political Science | Duke University Press

New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jun 30

Read Zachariah Wheeler’s recent research article, “The “Emerging Democratic Majority”: New Class Divisions and the Meritocratic Left”, in NPS 47.1: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...

The Structure of Social Change | New Political Science | Duke University Press

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New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jun 26

How have the Koch brothers and other conservative megadonors impacted higher education? Isaac Kamola and Ralph Wilson explore this dynamic in NPS 47.1: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...

God, Capitalism, and the State | New Political Science | Duke University Press

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New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jun 26

In “God, Capitalism, and the State: The Cultural Counterrevolution in US Universities, 1980–1990”, Dr. Clyde Barrow examines the effects of the neo-conservative counterrevolution on the American university: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...

The Ongoing Critique of “Official” Political Science | New Political Science | Duke University Press

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New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jun 18

Co-editor Andy Scerri offers a final word on critical political science and Barrow’s ECPS in our recent issue. Check it out here: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...

Two Ways of Being a Critical Political Scientist | New Political Science | Duke University Press

New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jun 18

A Grapes of Wrath or Norma Rae approach to political science? Read Cyrus Zirakzadeh’s reflection on Barrow’s ECPS in NPS 47.1: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...

Can the Past Guide Our Critical Moment? | New Political Science | Duke University Press

New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jun 16

Robert Glover follows as the next voice in our ECPS symposium; read his piece on the role of the past with regard to our current moment here: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...

An Antidote to Official Political Science | New Political Science | Duke University Press

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New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jun 16

In the first piece of our symposium on Clyde Barrow’s Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science, Emily Hauptmann reflects on the importance of such a work in the context of critical political science in practice: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...

Critical Political Science from the Age of Nixon to the Epoch of Trump | New Political Science | Duke University Press

New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jun 13

Dr. Timothy Luke reflects on the history of the Caucus for Critical Political Science, once CNPS, and its role in political organizing today in our recent issue: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...

Encouraging Vernacular Democracy | New Political Science | Duke University Press

New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jun 13

In NPS 47.1, Cyrus Zirakzadeh recalls early NPS endeavors into participatory democracy in the early 1980s. Read his reflection here: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...

Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism

New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jan 3

In Descent of the Dialectic, Thompson critiques the "cybernetic society", calling for a revival of dialectical reasoning to reclaim social agency. Thomas hails it as a masterful call to action, urging critical theorists to reconnect theory and praxis. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

The Suffragist Peace: How Women Shape the Politics of War

New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Jan 1

In The Suffragist Peace, Barnhart and Trager find that women voters’ pacifist tendencies have shaped foreign policy decisions. Shamira Gelbman calls this a thought-provoking contribution to international relations, gender politics, and democratic theory: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

It Stops Here: Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People

New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Dec 30

In It Stops Here, George and Simpson narrate Indigenous resistance to the Trans Mountain pipeline. James Rowe calls the book "vital reading," praising its message that spiritual healing is essential for liberation from colonialism and climate wreckage. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

Re-Imagining Caring Spaces of Democratic Resistance and Resilience: The Spatial Politics of Opposition in Turkey

New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Dec 30

In Ideas of Power, Verlan Lewis explores how American party ideologies evolve in response to institutional control. Sara Chatfield praises Lewis' insight into the interplay between party goals and institutional power - find her review in NPS 46.4: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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,...

Re-Imagining Caring Spaces of Democratic Resistance and Resilience: The Spatial Politics of Opposition in Turkey

New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Dec 29

In their recent piece, Özlem Aslan and Pınar Dokumacı explore the mechanics of resistance to authoritarianism in Turkey, holding that utilization of public spaces has transformative potential for activist efforts. Check it out in NPS 46.4: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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,...

Debating Citizenship and Seeking Political Solidarity in Mumbai’s Urban Margins

New Political Science Journal @npsjournal.bsky.social · Dec 28

Utilizing a case study of the “beef ban” in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, Qudsiya Contractor explores how citizenship is debated through popular discourse, focusing on the potential of a framework of solidarity as opposed to resistance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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...