What is a death sentence? -- John Locke's noose -- The metaphysics of the hangman -- Silencing the voice of pain -- "Womanhood unsexed on the gallows" -- Needling the sovereign.
In: Political research quarterly: PRQ ; official journal of the Western Political Science Association and other associations, Band 63, Heft 3, S. 655-673
How does the enterprise of political theory create and sustain the borders that account for its appearance as a distinguishable profession? In this article, the author considers and criticizes a recent effort to defend political theory's right to exist in the form of one of several subfields constitutive of the academic discipline of professional political science in the United States. The author closes by suggesting that theorists might be better positioned to think critically about politics, and the politics of liberalism more particularly, if this self-representation were to be unsettled and possibly jettisoned altogether.
In: Political research quarterly: PRQ ; official journal of Western Political Science Association, Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, Southern California Political Science Association, Northern California Political Science Association, Band 63, Heft 3, S. 655-674
In: Politics & gender: the journal of the Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 181-183