Letter from the Editors

• Published date: 01 December 2023
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/00905917231201490
• Date: 01 December 2023
• Subject Matter: Editorial

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Political Theory

2023, Vol. 51(6) 871 –873

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Editorial

Letter from the Editors

This is the final issue for the current editorial team. It has been our honor to

support the field through our work on this journal for the past three years. We

want to thank all the members of our team, including all the assistant editors

who have worked with us during this time. We also want to thank UCLA’s

Division of Social Sciences for supporting our work and making it possible.

We are proud of the scholarship published here during our tenure and are

especially proud of those scholars who persevered through the pandemic to

produce this important work.

We are thrilled to announce that Professors Banu Bargu, Kevin Olson, and

Massimiliano Tomba will assume editorship of Political Theory in January

2024. Individually, they are terrific scholars who have made lasting contribu-

tions to the field. Together, they promise to bring penetrating depth and excit-

ing breadth to the job. Banu is a professor in the History of Consciousness

Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of

Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons; her forthcoming book

is Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal. Kevin is a profes-

sor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California,

Irvine. His most recent book is Imagined Sovereignties: The Power of the

People and Other Myths of the Modern Age; his forthcoming book is

Subaltern Silence: A Postcolonial Genealogy. Massimiliano is a professor

and chair in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of

California, Santa Cruz. His most recent book is Insurgent Universality: An

Alternative Legacy of Modernity; his forthcoming book is Present Pasts.

Anachronism in History and Politics.

Professor Nancy Luxon’s term as books editor also concludes with this

issue. We thank Nancy for her highly successful management and leadership

of the books section. The new editorial team will name a books editor soon.

We want to offer our renewed gratitude to the committee that selected this

new editorial team. The committee was chaired by Kennan Ferguson as well

as Emily Beausoleil, Murad Idris, Lida Maxwell, and Benjamin McKean.

During the worst of the pandemic, there was a sharp decline in the number

of scholars willing to serve as manuscript reviewers. Sadly, the problem

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