A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World: 2050

• Author: Danielle Celermajer,David Schlosberg,Dinesh Wadiwel,Christine Winter
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/00905917221128833
• Published date: 01 February 2023
• Date: 01 February 2023
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2023, Vol. 51(1) 39 –53

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A Political Theory for a

Multispecies, Climate-

Challenged World: 2050

Danielle Celermajer,1 David Schlosberg,1

Dinesh Wadiwel,1 and Christine Winter2

Abstract

This essay is part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of Political Theory. The

ambition of the editors was to mark this half century not with a retrospective

but with a confabulation of futures. Contributors were asked: 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 consistent 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? What follows is

one of the many confabulations published in response to these queries.

Political theory as Part of, Not Apart from, the

More than World

We1 are writing from a high valley, slightly inland from the coast in the

southeast of what was once known as Australia; Land2 that we, along with

our community of multispecies collaborators, and under the guidance of the

1The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2The University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago

Corresponding Author:

Danielle Celermajer, The University of Sydney, 350 Social Sciences Building, A02, Sydney,

NSW 2006, Australia.

Email: danielle.celermajer@sydney.edu.au

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