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Thinking the Political: Theory, Literature, Practice

This special collection explores the role of political theory, literature and practice in transforming our understanding of ‘politics’ and ‘the political’ in the contemporary world. In recent years, dominant definitions of ‘politics’ have increasingly been questioned. New social movements, including those for climate, black, queer and trans life, and feminism, have centred practices—including friendship, care and fugitivity—that disrupt received understandings of political contestation. Concurrently, the field of literary studies has witnessed renewed scholarly interest in literary works as interventions into the historical and political conjunctures of the present. Inspired by these recent tendencies in both political practice and literary analysis, the collection explores what political contestation look like at this moment. Featuring work from a range of disciplines, including philosophy, literary studies and political theory, the collection explores the following questions: What is ‘the political’? Which aspects of life, and kinds of activity, count as ‘political’ today? How do new and diverse modes of political contestation challenge established ways of defining and doing politics? In short, what does it mean to ‘think the political’ today?

Editors: Craig Jordan-Baker (Guest Editor), Joanna Kellond (Guest Editor)


Thinking the Political: Theory, Literature, Practice

Against Political Literature: What's Next?
Against Political Literature: What's Next?

Aurore Peyroles

2025-02-14 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025

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