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About Theoria

Based in South Africa, Theoria is an engaged, multidisciplinary and peer reviewed journal of social and political theory. Its purpose is to address, through scholarly debate, the many challenges posed to intellectual life by the major social, political and economic forces that shape the contemporary world. Thus it is principally concerned with questions such as how modern systems of power, processes of globalization and capitalist economic organization bear on matters such as justice, democracy and truth. How might such systems best be explained? In what do justice and freedom consist? How might these ends best be realized under the conditions both of advanced modernity and of uneven modernization in the ‘developing’ world? In what, precisely, do the problems of social and political identity consist, and how might sense best be made of phenomena such as resurgent ethnic nationalisms? And what, in addressing these concerns, is the scope of philosophy, art, literature, history, social and political theory and economics? These, among many others, are the kinds of questions by which Theoria is driven.

Theoria is indexed/abstracted in: Academic Search Premier, British Humanities Index, Infotrac Online, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, WorldCat, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.

Theoria is published three times a year by Berghahn Books in association with the Faculty of Humanities, Development and Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Some Reviews

"Theoria is currently the best journal of philosophy and social theory in South Africa" - Professor Andre du Toit, University of Cape Town.

"Theoria is a journal which does not shy from the daunting task of dealing with issues which are not only increasingly complex but for which we no longer can make easy appeal to the certainty of foundations to answer. It deals with global issues in an authentically global way - it is interdisciplinary and intercultural in the very best sense of those terms and it understands that theory is one of the most important practices in which we can engage" - Professor James Buchanan, Xavier University.

Referees

The Editors wish to express their appreciation to the following individuals who assisted the refereeing process for 2007:

Arash Abizadeh, Brooke Ackerly, Barbara Adam, Henry Allison, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Ronald Aronson, Tony Balcomb, Lawrie Balfour, Terence Ball, Jason Barabas, Ronald Barnett, Ahmed Bawa, Kenneth Baynes, Ronald Beiner, David Benatar, Ken Binmore, Timothy Byrnes, Dario Castiglione, Simone Chambers, Stephen Chan, Thomas Christiano, John Christman, Jim Cochrane, Maeve Cooke, Hoosen Coovadia, Fred Dallmayr, Monique Deveaux, Shadia Drury, John Dryzek, André du Toit, Elisabeth Ellis, Colin Farrelly, Silvio Ferrari, Andreas Follesdal, George Fredrickson, Michael Freeman, Archon Fung, Nigel Gibson, Pablo Gilabert, Daryl Glaser, Robert Goodin, Jack Goody, Lewis Gordon, Philip Green, Gary Gutting, Adam Habib, Russell Hardin, Patrick Hayden, Derek Hook, Donald Horowitz, Kai Horsthemke, Sheila Kennedy, Loren King, Margaret Kohn, Nikolas Kompridis, Bruce Kuklick, Will Kymlicka, Ernesto Laclau, Ethan Leib, Andrew Lister, Francie Lund, Robert Luskin, Jocelyn Maclure, Jane Mansbridge, Eric MacGilvray, Gerhard Mare, Anna Mccord, Douglas McGaughey, John Medearis, Thad Metz, Frank Michelman, Stephen Monsma, Joe Muller, Christina Murray, Andrew Nash, Nicoli Nattrass, Boubacar N’Diaye, Clare O’Farrell, Ian O’Flynn, Frank Oppenheim, Thomas Pangle, Luigi Pellizzoni, Pratap Penumala, Roger Petersen, Thomas Pogge, Hilary Putnam, Ben Quash, Karlis Racevskis, John Rajchman, Kenneth Reinhard, John Richardson, Melvin Rogers, Stanley Rosen, Victor Roudometof, David Ryfe, Michael Saward, Rainer Schmalz-Bruns, Leroy Searle, Yael Shalem, Tommie Shelby, Amritjit Singh, Kathleen Skerrett, Brian Skyrms, Holloway Sparks, Gayatri Spivak, Henry Staten, Edna Ullmann-Margalit, Nadia Urbinati, Charles Verharen, Yusef Waghid, Richard Weisfelder, Gerald West and Christopher Zurn.



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