This issue covers the following themes: private security, contentious concepts, and digital memories of peace and conflict.
Volume 8, 2017: Measurements and Metrics
This volume explores how themes of measurement are played out in diverse settings and seeks to provide a better understanding of how crucial measurements are formulated and contested.
With the 50th year of European Judaism coming to a close, this issue takes up the current refugee crisis affecting Europe by publishing the proceedings of a conference entitled ‘Welcome to Britain? Refugees Then and Now.’ Following this theme, this issue includes two personal refugee histories, and an account of peace initiatives in Israel and the Occupied Territories.
The articles in this issue discuss how political parties respond to major economic shock, the vocabulary of sovereignty and reconciliation in relation to borderlands, and the recent transition in the foreign policy paradigm. The articles are followed by a forum and the issue concludes with book reviews.
A Journal of Social and Political Theory
The articles in this issue of Theoria address the many challenges posed by the major forces that shape the contemporary world. One proposes a new interpretation of Kant’s contradiction in conception test, while another advances the ‘Impossibility Result.’ The plausibility of Metz’s African moral theory is questioned and the current state of deliberative democracy is examined.