The Stories We Share: Learnings from a Hundred Years of the Three Communities. (February 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mylius, Ben
• Is Part Of: Political theory. Volume 51:Number 1(2023)
• Page Start: 178
• Page End: 189
• Publication Date: 2023-02
• Subjects: Political science -- Periodicals; Science politique -- Périodiques; 320.05
• DOI: 10.1177/00905917221128895
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0090-5917

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.