From the Editors

• Published date: 01 December 2021
• Date: 01 December 2021
• DOI: 10.1177/00905917211045135
• Subject Matter: From the Editors

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Political Theory

2021, Vol. 49(6) 899 –901

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1. This one has already appeared in print: Tim Mulgan. 2001. Ethics for a Broken

World: Imagining Philosophy After Catastrophe. Acumen Press.

From the Editors

We are excited to reprint our announcement already circulated on social

media for a special issue to mark the 50th anniversary of Political Theory:

FUTURES OF POLITICAL THEORY: A FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY

CONFABULATION

Call for Proposals

Submission Deadline: October 8, 2021

This coming year will be the fiftieth of Political Theory’s publication. We

are celebrating a half-century of political theorizing with an anniversary issue

comprised of futures: What will political theory look and sound like in the

next century and beyond? What claims might political theorists or their

descendants be making in ten, twenty-five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How

might they vindicate those claims in their future contexts? How will the con-

sistent concerns of political theorists evolve into the questions critical for

people decades or centuries from now? What new problems will engage the

political theorists (or their rough equivalents) of the future? What forms

might those take? We invite your proposed answers to these questions, writ-

ten from an imagined future perspective.

We call on the global community of political theorists and people who

love political theory to join us in a fiftieth anniversary confabulation. Insofar

as we are able in these times, let us gather over hot or cold drinks, in seminar

rooms, in each other’s favourite places, and think about what we have been

able to do and what we and our scholarly descendants might yet achieve. Let

us also hunker down in libraries with our favourite texts and our sober senses,

imagining what might be read, written, and thought many years hence.

Please send brief (200–500 word) proposals to pt@polisci.ucla.edu by

October 8, 2021. Specify the date, form, length, and topic of the proposed

imaginative work, along with anything else the selection panel would need

to know. For example, one might propose to write a 3,000- word lecture on

the history of affluent (twenty-first century) political philosophy given by a

teacher in a far future “broken world” characterised by famine and extremes

of weather and scarcity.1 More cheerful confabulations are also welcome,

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