Read Hina Cheema’s recent research article on the South-South development cooperation model in Brazil, India, and South Africa in NPS 47.2: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article-...

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-...

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-...

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-...

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

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

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

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

In the NPS 46.4 special issue, Cohelo, Fontes, and Sanchez examine resistance to autocratization during Bolsonaro’s regime, exploring four movements from across São Paulo to showcase the resulting reimagining of democracy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sagnik Dutta and Indrajit Roy introduce the NPS 46.4 Special Issue. The research articles in this issue explore a re-imagination of democratic citizenship that is sweeping the globe, aiming to recategorize “resistance” to authoritarianism as re-invention. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Check out this recent edited volume, "Marxism and the Capitalist State: Towards a New Debate", on the revival of critical state theory. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

In their newest piece published in NPS 46.3, Drs. Suryamayi Clarence-Smith and Leslie Branagan explore the implications of a Citizen's Assembly project in the Auroville community. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In their recent piece published in NPS 46.3, Drs. Peter N. Funke and M. Scott Solomon examine Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement, arguing the movement must be considered as part of a much larger shift in movement logic. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In their newest piece published in NPS 46.3, Ron Hayduk and Anthony Pahnke explore the rise of anti-immigrant voting rights campaigns in the context of right-wing mobilization and voter suppression across the United States. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In his new piece in NPS 46.3, Prof. Toby James draws on critical realist thought to provide a more holistic concept of democracy that grounds itself in the individual potential and experiences of everyday citizens. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NPS 46.3 features a fantastic symposium on constitutional reform from top scholars - check out the introduction by Bill Niemi, as well as contributions from Sanford Levinson, Daniel Lazare, and Ronald C. Den Otter here: www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.lib.vt.edu/doi/full/10....

Dr. Catherine Guisan reviews Perry Anderson's "wonderfully erudite, sarcastically critical, and occasionally wrongheaded set of essays", Ever Closer Union? Europe in the West, in NPS 46.3. Read her analysis here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dr. Asher Joseph Wycoff engages with the puzzle of capitalism as common sense in a review of Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory: A Study of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis and the Situationists, published in NPS 46.3. Check out this piece here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Check out Dr. Joshua N. Longmire's review of Sungju Park-Kang's Tears of Theory: International Relations as Storytelling, a work that seeks to reintroduce the importance of lived experience to the practice of IR scholarship. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Prof. Graham Dodds reviews "The Ends of Resistance: Making and Unmaking Democracy" by Alix Olson and Alex Zamalin in the most recent issue of NPS. Check it out here: www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.lib.vt.edu/doi/full/10....

Dr. Garrett Morrow's review of Jennifer Forestal's Designing for Democracy: How to Build Community in Digital Environments explores the potentiality for community on social media. We might be biased here, but we think this is exceptionally timely. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

some shots from the Critical Political Science reception and awards ceremony at APSA last weekend! congratulations to our award winners: Nancy Love, Tom Malleson, Brad Macdonald, Be Stone, and Students for the Preservation of Chinatown. (First picture by Taylor Mickal.)

Proud to announce Clyde Barrow's latest article, "What Comes After the Critique of the Corporate University? Toward a Syndicalist University," Published in Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis, Volume 3, Issue 1 (April 2024). Link: scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipation...

We are proud to announce Jennifer Corby's "Total Exemption from Trouble and from Risk: Adam Smith on the Time of Subprime Mortgage Crisis" in our latest Issue of NPS❗️ Check out the full article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are excited to announce our newest issue of NPS Issue 46.2 coming soon! tandfonline.com/journals/cnp...

CFP: New Book Series - Critical Thinking & Contemporary Politics. Submit proposals for innovative work addressing today's crises. Topics include aesthetic politics, global citizenship, & pandemic politics, and legal legitimacy are encouraged! www.degruyter.com/serial/ctcp-...

🚨We are welcoming new submissions to the Journal! Click the link below for author instructions: www.tandfonline.com/journals/cnp...

CCPS March 29th reception will serve as a continuation of the scheduled @theWPSA panel titled "Explorations in Critical Political Science," featuring presentations and papers around contributions to the encyclopedia. At Balmoral, Hyatt Regency in Vancouver, British Columbia AT 5PM!

NPS member, non members and faulty are welcome to join @NPS_Caucus for a reception celebrating the launch of our newest book, the "Encyclopaedia of Critical Political Science" March 29th, 5pm-6pm at Balmoral, Hyatt Regency in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Caucus for a Critical Political Science is delighted to announce the release of their latest publication, the "Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science," released by Edward Elgar in March 2024. For more information, please visit the book's website: www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/enc...

🚨NPS Editorial Board, Dr. Andy Scerri and Dr Gregory P. Williams will be at the @theWPSA March 28-30th 2024! Be sure to check them out for more information on submitting to the journal. www.tandfonline.com/journals/cnp...

Caucus for a Critical Political Science is announcing the call for papers for 4th Biennial Conference of the Caucus for a Critical Political Science, February 23-25th, 2025! ccpsconference.org/2024/02/28/c...

Thank you Dr Love for your leadership as Caucus Chair while CCPS stood in solidarity with labor by cancelling participation in APSA. Read more in the link below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....