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Critical Theory and Political Philosophy

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Amandine Catala
Université du Québec à Montréal
2
A. Freya Thimsen
Indiana University
3
Josh Platzky Miller
University of the Free State
4
Loren Maria Guay
Northwestern University
5
Cristina Alarcón López
University of Vienna
6
Rizvana Bradley
University of California, Berkeley
7
Nicholas Holm
Massey University
8
Jenna Cushing‐Leubner
University of Wisconsin–Whitewater
9
Gala Nettelbladt
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
10
Ben A. Gerlofs
University of Hong Kong

Rising Stars Papers

1
Epistemic Injustice or Epistemic Oppression?
KULA knowledge creation dissemination and preservation studies|2024
6 cit.
2
‘Must Fall’ movements globally: transnational flows of South African student activism
Third World Quarterly|2024
6 cit.
3
Nothing About Us Without Us: Identifying Principles of Justice For Emancipatory Participatory Research in the Context of Neurodiversity
Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal|2024
5 cit.
4
Humour versus dignity in the public sphere
European Journal of Humour Research|2024
3 cit.
5
Politics of desire, policies of replacement: Race, empire, and worth(iness) in Hmong language education
International Journal of Educational Research|2024
3 cit.
6
Linguistic Othering and epistemic injustice in philosophy
Asian Journal of Philosophy|2024
3 cit.
7
Performing Arts and Affordances: Moving toward Epistemic Justice through Embodied Learning
The British Journal of Aesthetics|2025
3 cit.
8
Humour as a Pedagogical Tool: Evidence and Implications for Critical Geography
Antipode|2025
2 cit.
9
Introduction: the state of political comedy
Comedy Studies|2026
2 cit.
10
Tank to Table: Hong Kong’s Wet Markets and the Geographies of Lively Commodification Beyond Companionship
Annals of the American Association of Geographers|2024
1 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Richard Saull
Queen Mary University of London
2
Cristina Flesher Fominaya
Aarhus University
3
Stavros Stavrides
Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University
4
Matina Kapsali
University of Manchester
5
Lauren Shallish
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
6
Juliet Hooker
The University of Texas at Austin
7
Rauni Karlsson
University of Gothenburg
8
Abdullah Ijaz
University of Greenwich
9
Paula Albuquerque
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
10
Søren S. E. Bengtsen
Aarhus University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The far-right in world politics/world politics in the far-right
Globalizations|2022
38 cit.
2
Mobilizing During the Covid-19 Pandemic: From Democratic Innovation to the Political Weaponization of Disinformation
American Behavioral Scientist|2022
34 cit.
3
World humanities - Towards an ontology of policy
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education|2023
22 cit.
4
Reconceptualizing Democratic Innovation
Democratic Theory|2022
18 cit.
5
Reconsidering social movement impact on democracy: the case of Spain’s 15-M movement
Social movement studies|2023
11 cit.
6
Grassroots temporary urbanism as a challenge to the city of austerity? Lessons from a self‐organised park in Thessaloniki, Greece
Geographical Journal|2023
11 cit.
7
‘Adopt your city’: Post-political geographies and politics of urban philanthropy during austerity
Urban Studies|2024
10 cit.
8
Affect as future-making pedagogy: a post-qualitative inquiry in Brazilian primary schools
Pedagogy Culture and Society|2022
7 cit.
9
Reclaiming public space as commons: learning from Latin American movements
Revista INVI|2022
6 cit.
10
School as Soil: Pedagogies of Care for Alternative Future Imaginaries
World Futures Review|2023
6 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Jacques Rancière
Université Paris 8
2
Stellan Vinthagen
University West
3
Kurt Iveson
The University of Sydney
4
Walter J. Nicholls
University of Amsterdam
5
Lasse Thomassen
Queen Mary University of London
6
Stefania Barca
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
7
Carl Anders Säfström
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
8
Helen Tregidga
Auckland University of Technology
9
Steve Holmes
George Mason University
10
Piotr Zamojski
Polish Naval Academy

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
O espectador emancipado
Urdimento|2018
886 cit.
2
Who Is the Subject of the Rights of Man?
South Atlantic Quarterly|2004
821 cit.
3
Ten Theses on Politics
Theory & Event|2001
711 cit.
4
Cities within the City: Do‐It‐Yourself Urbanism and the Right to the City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research|2013
458 cit.
5
Politics, Identification, and Subjectivization
October|1992
408 cit.
6
Movement parties against austerity
Contemporary Political Theory|2017
359 cit.
7
Place, networks, space: theorising the geographies of social movements
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers|2008
318 cit.
8
Dissenting Words: A Conversation with Jacques Rancière
diacritics|2000
292 cit.
9
Dimensions of Everyday Resistance: An Analytical Framework
Critical Sociology|2014
278 cit.
10
(Re)presenting ‘sustainable organizations’
Accounting Organizations and Society|2013
239 cit.

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