New Political Science Journal
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A peer-reviewed journal, published by the Caucus for a Critical Political Science @NPS_Caucus, studying politics & culture to make a better world
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-...
How Does the South-South Development Cooperation Model Contribute to Empowering Development Organizations in the Global South? Case Studies from Brazil, India, and South Africa
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...
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August 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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-...
“What Should We Do about ISIS?”: Religion, Terrorism, and Facts That Matter
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...
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August 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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-...
Securitizing Migration in South Africa: From Welcoming Refugees to Dealing with Security Threats
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...
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July 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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-...
Caucus for a Critical Political Science’s 2024 Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award | New Political Science | Duke University Press
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July 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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/...
Utopias: Impossible, Practical, Radical: Closing
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 “...
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July 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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/...
Violence, Nonviolence, and the Utopian Structure of Environmental Democracy: Benjamin’s Utopian Moment
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...
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July 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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/...
In Defense of Stupidity
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...
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July 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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/...
Utopias, Radical Imaginaries, and Political Action
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...
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July 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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/...
Vegetarianism as Utopian Figuration
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...
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July 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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/...
Utopias: Impossible, Practical, Radical: Introduction
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 ...
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July 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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/...
The “Emerging Democratic Majority” | New Political Science | Duke University Press
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June 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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/...
The Structure of Social Change | New Political Science | Duke University Press
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June 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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/...
God, Capitalism, and the State | New Political Science | Duke University Press
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June 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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/...
The Ongoing Critique of “Official” Political Science | New Political Science | Duke University Press
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June 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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/...
Two Ways of Being a Critical Political Scientist | New Political Science | Duke University Press
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June 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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/...
Can the Past Guide Our Critical Moment? | New Political Science | Duke University Press
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June 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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/...
An Antidote to Official Political Science | New Political Science | Duke University Press
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June 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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/...
Critical Political Science from the Age of Nixon to the Epoch of Trump | New Political Science | Duke University Press
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June 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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/...
Encouraging Vernacular Democracy | New Political Science | Duke University Press
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June 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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....
Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism
Published in New Political Science (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2024)
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January 3, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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....
The Suffragist Peace: How Women Shape the Politics of War
Published in New Political Science (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2024)
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January 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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....
It Stops Here: Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People
Published in New Political Science (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2024)
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December 30, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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....
Re-Imagining Caring Spaces of Democratic Resistance and Resilience: The Spatial Politics of Opposition in Turkey
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,...
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December 30, 2024 at 5:00 AM
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....
Re-Imagining Caring Spaces of Democratic Resistance and Resilience: The Spatial Politics of Opposition in Turkey
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,...
www.tandfonline.com
December 29, 2024 at 4:03 AM
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....
Debating Citizenship and Seeking Political Solidarity in Mumbai’s Urban Margins
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...
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December 28, 2024 at 2:11 AM
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....