Theory & Event

Each article submitted to Theory & Event will receive a preliminary review by the Co-editors of the journal, Elisabeth Anker and Hagar Kotef. The Co-editors will then decide whether to send the submission out for review to a) an outside referee and b) a Coordinating Editor or Advising Editor. Reviewers will be drawn from an international network of political theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, social theorists, and anthropologists, as well as freelance intellectuals, artists, and activists. Final decisions concerning the publication of any article submitted are made jointly by the Co-editors.

Submission of a manuscript implies commitment to publish original material in Theory & Event. Queries concerning what constitutes prior publication should be addressed to the Managing Editor at theoryandeventjournal@gmail.com. All identifying information must be removed from the manuscript and it should include a 100-word abstract.

Manuscripts should be in the range of 10,000 words (not including endnotes and abstract), double-spaced, with one-inch margins, in 12-point font. Text and endnotes are to conform to The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition. Here are samples of T&E’s preferred endnote style (full version; shortened version) from the Manual online:

Notes

1. Susan Satterfield, “Livy and the Pax Deum,” Classical Philology 111, no. 2 (April 2016): 170.
2. Shao-Hsun Keng, Chun-Hung Lin, and Peter F. Orazem, “Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978–2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality,” Journal of Human Capital 11, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 9–10, https://doi.org/10.1086/690235.
3. Peter LaSalle, “Conundrum: A Story about Reading,” New England Review 38, no. 1 (2017): 95, Project MUSE.

Shortened notes

4. Satterfield, “Livy,” 172–73.
5. Keng, Lin, and Orazem, “Expanding College Access,” 23.
6. LaSalle, “Conundrum,” 101.

Manuscripts must be submitted as email attachments in Microsoft Word to theoryandeventjournal@gmail.com.

If an article is accepted, the author(s) will be notified by the Co-editors, and then contacted by the Managing Editor to finalize the proof and arrange for signing of publishing agreement(s).

The T&E review period averages ten weeks, except during the summer, when the office is open on a more limited basis.

Editor Contact Information

Elisabeth Anker, Theory & Event Co-editor  
George Washington University  
Department of American Studies  
2108 G St. NW, Room 103  
Washington, DC 20052 anker@gwu.edu

Hagar Kotef, Theory & Event Co-editor   
SOAS, University of London  
43 Bedford Road  
London, United Kingdom  
N2 9DB  
hagar.work.temp@gmail.com

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Peer Review Policy

Theory & Event is a journal of political theory with an international editorial board, authors, and readership. It welcomes theoretical interventions, interpretations, and engagements with political events, institutions, cultures, and issues as they unfold. It provides a forum attractive to intellectuals who work at intersections of political theory, cultural theory, political economy, aesthetics, philosophy, and the arts. 

Each article submitted to Theory & Event will receive a preliminary review by the Journal’s co-editors. The co-editors will then decide whether to send the submission out for review to an outside referee, a coordinating editor, or an advising editor. If articles are selected for review, they will be done so through a double-blind process with the goal of returning reviews within twelve weeks. Reviewers are drawn from an international network of political theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, social theorists, and anthropologists, as well as freelance intellectuals, artists, and activists. Articles for review are either accepted, rejected, or preliminarily accepted pending revisions. Accepted and revised articles are then reviewed by the co-editors, who make all final decisions on publication. Conference panels, symposia, and special issues are also considered and reviewed similarly.

Theory & Event began in 1997 as an exclusive, online, peer-reviewed journal – the first of its kind – at a time when digital intellectual life was in its infancy. Since its first issue, it has established a reputation for cutting-edge theoretical and political inquiry. It is a journal of political theory with an international editorial board, authors, and readership. We welcome original theoretical interventions, interpretations, and engagements with ideas, cultures, institutions, issues, and unfolding events that have a particular relevance to questions of politics.

The journal features innovative political theorizing in the humanities and social sciences. We publish academic essays as well as other forms of writing and representation – including polemics, photography, and moving images and sounds – that engage diverse political ideas, phenomena, and events throughout the world. Related topics may include climate, sovereignty, territory, government, nation, race, family, gender, individual, capital, and the state; old, new, and emerging forms of subjectivity as they may be expressed in elections, popular uprisings, and affective networks, flows, and assemblages; old, new, and combined media formations; and, investigations into the objects and conditions of politics, ethics, and critique. The journal encourages contributions that are rigorous and lively, and that are attentive to scholarship without sacrificing creativity or timeliness.

The Review Section of Theory & Event seeks to foster international and cross-disciplinary dialogue about issues in contemporary politics and political theory. Reviews may involve extended reflections on several books grouped thematically, extended reflection on a single book that promises to alter the terms of discourse in important ways, or shorter examination of a recently published book. While reviews are published in English, the books under review need not be.

Theory & Event also publishes articles grouped together as symposia. The Symposium Section of Theory & Event operates as a site of inquiry and contestation concerning contemporary issues and controversies as they unfold. Valuing rigor and timeliness, our aspiration is to make this section a place where intense differences over significant issues are addressed in reflective ways.

On occasion, Theory & Event publishes “Supplements” – targeted and urgent provocations to current events, often with larger political and theoretical implications.  Unlike the Symposia, the Supplements are more direct and lie somewhere between the academic intervention and blogging.Opinions expressed in the Supplements are those of the authors and not of the editorial board of Theory & Event and/or Johns Hopkins University Press.

Anyone who has any questions concerning the editorial policies, structure of governance, or any other matter concerning this journal should contact the co-editors at theoryandeventjournal@gmail.com.

Co-Editors

Elisabeth Anker, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.  
Hagar Kotef, SOAS, University of London

Review Editor 

Benjamin L. McKean, Ohio State University

Board of Coordinating Editors

Elisabeth Anker, George Washington University  p
Banu Bargu, University of California, Santa Cruz 
Anita Chari, University of Oregon  
Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 
Kathy Ferguson, University of Hawai’i 
Jason Frank, Cornell University 
Steven Johnston, University of Utah  
Hagar Kotef, SOAS, University of London 
Chad Lavin, University at Buffalo 
Lisa Lowe, Yale University
Geoff Mann, Simon Fraser University  
Robyn Marasco, City University of New York  
Lori J. Marso, Union College, Schenectady  
James Martel, San Francisco State University  
Lida Maxwell, Boston University 
Davide Panagia, University of California, Los Angeles 
Neil Roberts, Williams College  
Kam Shapiro, Illinois State University  
Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai’i  
Audra Simpson, Columbia University 
Lars Tønder, University of Copenhagen  
Miguel Vatter, University of New South Wales, Sydney  
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, University of California, Irvine 
Elizabeth Wingrove, University of Michigan

Board of Advising Editors

Jane Bennett, Johns Hopkins University 
Wendy Brown, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton   
William Connolly, Johns Hopkins University  
Diana Coole, University of London, Birkbeck 
Simon Critchley, New School University  
Lisa Disch, University of Michigan 
Thomas Dumm, Amherst College  
Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania  
Paul Patton, University of New South Wales, Sydney 

Managing Editor

Leslie A. Castro-Woodhouse, Independent Scholar

Send books for review to:

Review Editor
Benjamin McKean
Department of Political Science
2140 Derby Hall
154 North Oval Mall, Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210
 

Please send book review copies to the contact above. Review copies received by the Johns Hopkins University Press office will be discarded.

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• EBSCOhost
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  • Left Index (Online), 1/1/1997-
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association), coverage dropped
  • Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, 1/1/2005-
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• OCLC
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  • Politics Collection
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  • Research Library
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Published quarterly in January, April, July and October.

Readers include: Intellectuals who work at the intersections of political theory, cultural theory, political economy, aesthetics, philosophy, and the arts.

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"Theory & Event is one of those rare journals that is both rigorously scholarly and thoroughly political...consistently on the cutting edge of todays theorizing about identity, power, culture, and the state...and clearly connected to current political events and debates."

–Philip T. Neisser
Department of Politics, SUNY Potsdam

"Theory & Event presents provocative, enlightening, and entertaining articles on the politics of culture and the culture of politics. Contributions from many of todays most original thinkers make Theory & Event required reading for anyone interested in understanding the relations linking cultural questions and social evolutions, both good and bad, around the world."

–George Lipsitz
Professor and Chair
Department of Ethnic Studies, UC-San Diego, Author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

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