Maxwell et al. - The “Agonistic Turn”
Maxwell et al. (2019) The “Agonistic Turn”: Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics in New Contexts. Contemporary Political Theory, 18(4): 640-672.
This Critical Exchange revisits Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics to remember that a now widely dispersed mode of political theorizing has a history, and to think about what agonism should mean now to political theory. Have our modes of theorizing difference, contestation, and ambivalence become overly settled parts of political theorizing, which themselves require challenge and unsettling? What is the relationship of agonism to our contemporary political moment, and to contemporary approaches to thinking about inequality and injustice, like black feminism? And perhaps more importantly: what should agonistic theory be like today? Does PTDP call us to a new agonism in the present moment?
Maxwell et al. “The “Agonistic Turn”: Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics in New Contexts”