Two University of California, Santa Cruz Humanities professors have been named co-editors of an influential scholarly journal that addresses probably the most urgent points of the twenty first century, from the crises of democratic authorities to future pandemics.
History of Consciousness Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Banu Bargu and History of Consciousness Chair and Professor Massimiliano Tomba, with Professor Kevin Olson of UC Irvine, will co-edit Political Theory, a peer-reviewed bimonthly journal, revealed by SAGE, that’s extensively thought of the main American publication selling the event and change of political concepts.
“The contributors to this journal have the unique ability to address problems from climate change to ‘natural’ disasters, from war to police violence, from artificial intelligence to academic freedom,” Bargu mentioned.
“The challenges of the present are at the forefront of our journal to address,” Bargue continued. “We believe that this task necessarily involves a multiplicity of different perspectives, forms of expertise, methodologies and approaches. It will be our goal to invite more collaborative, out of the box, and transdisciplinary projects to appear on our pages.”
As co-editors, Tomba and Bargu are aiming to solicit the boldest, most rigorous and artistic work that’s being carried out by political theorists of all stripes, Tomba mentioned.
“We are not necessarily looking for particular topics or authors but, rather, creative, original, theoretically-minded ways of engaging with politics,” Bargu mentioned.
The scope of Political Theory is usually educational. However, its readership extends past the sphere of political concept, drawing readers from a quantity of associated fields inside the Humanities and Social Sciences.
“It is our ambition to broaden its reach even further during our tenure as editors to reach scholars in the arts and sciences who are interested in transdisciplinary issues and conversations,” Bargu mentioned.
Tomba’s work is worried with political philosophy, trendy political concept, and significant concept. He focuses on German classical philosophy, Marxism, and trendy and modern political thought.
Tomba has written on matters together with histories and legacies of universalism, human rights, revolutions, and the trendy state.
Rethinking modernity and trendy political ideas has been a recurrent theme in his works, which have been translated into Chinese, French, English, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Spanish, and Turkish.
His most up-to-date e-book is Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2019), which was co-winner of the 2021 David and Elaine Spitz Prize for one of the best e-book in liberal and/or democratic concept revealed in 2019.
Bargu’s analysis issues theories of sovereignty and biopolitics, carceral regimes and struggles, democracy and autocratic politics, in addition to the function of the physique in resistance practices, and traditions of materialist thought.
Bargu’s first e-book, Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia University Press, 2014), explores self-destructive protest inTurkish prisons by the ethnography of a radical motion. The e-book focuses on an incident that has turn into often called the “Death Fast,” a collection of starvation strikes that have been half of an enormous resistance motion in Turkish prisons from 2000 to 2007. The starvation strikes have been typically lethal for the contributors. Bargu makes use of their fasts as a lens to look at the difficulty of weaponizing the physique as a type of protest that develops in response to the altering nature of sovereign energy and the set up of a securitized carceral regime.
Bargu’s new e-book, Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal (Oxford University Press), examines self-destruction, self-injury, and radical self-endangerment as unconventional performances of resistance and refusal carried out by the oppressed emanating from the worldwide south.
