From the Editor

• Published date: 01 April 2021
• DOI: 10.1177/0090591721992513
• Author: Lawrie Balfour
• Date: 01 April 2021
• Subject Matter: Editorial

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Political Theory

2021, Vol. 49(2) 163 –164

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Editorial

From the Editor

April 2021

I am delighted to announce that Joshua Foa Dienstag, Elisabeth Ellis, and

Davide Panagia assumed the editorship of Political Theory in January 2021.

Together and individually, they bring a new breadth of intellectual acumen

and experience to the job. Joshua is the Shapiro Family Professor of Modern

Political Theory and professor of law at UCLA. His latest book, Cinema

Pessimism: A Political Theory of Representation and Reciprocity, appeared

last year, and he is working on a project on citizenship and the boundaries of

the human. Lisa, who is the former political theory field editor at the Journal

of Politics, is professor of philosophy and politics at the University of Otago.

Her most recent book is Provisional Politics: Kantian Arguments in Policy

Contexts, and she is a leading figure in the field of environmental political

theory. Davide is professor of political science at UCLA, where his wide-

ranging scholarship includes publications on aesthetics and algorithmic gov-

ernance. A former editor of Theory & Event, his newest book is Rancière’s

Sentiments.

Over the past four years, I have incurred many debts. That Political

Theory is in such excellent hands is thanks to the search committee: Jennifer

Pitts (chair), Joan Cocks, Glen Coulthard, Juliet Hooker, Lida Maxwell, and

Lars Tønder. When they agreed to undertake this demanding task, they could

not have known that they would do most of their work in the midst of a pan-

demic. Yet they juggled family care and quarantine and upended teaching

plans to seek input and proposals from the broadest possible number of col-

leagues. Glen is also part of the Executive Editorial Committee, along with

Paul Apostolidis, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Nivedita Menon, Neil Roberts,

Shalini Satkunanandan, and Elizabeth Wingrove. Their advice and enthusi-

asm have been crucial. I am also thankful to have worked with incredibly

responsive editors at SAGE—Patrick McGinty and Ian Balisy—whose

encouragement made the demands of running a journal less daunting.

Although the review editor enjoys a great deal of autonomy in deciding

which books to cover, and Melvin Rogers and Nancy Luxon have each put a

distinctive intellectual stamp on this section of the journal, they have also

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