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    Darkwater’s Democratic Vision.Lawrie Balfour - 2010 - Political Theory 38 (4):537-563.
    This essay considers W. E. B. Du Bois’s Darkwater (1920) as a window onto Du Bois’s political theory at an underexamined stage of his career and onto a challenge at the heart of black political thought: how to formulate a conception of collective life that regards the humanity of black women and men as a central concern. Exploring Du Bois’s attempt to articulate what can be seen through the lens of an avowedly “black” perspective and his creative juxtaposition of different (...)
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    Reparations After Identity Politics.Lawrie Balfour - 2005 - Political Theory 33 (6):786-811.
    The end of the twentieth century witnessed a resurgence of demands for reparations for slavery and segregation in the United States. At the same time, a chorus of prominent political theorists warned against the threat "identity politics" poses for democratic politics. This essay considers whether it is possible to construct an argument for reparations that responds to these concerns, particularly as they are articulated by Wendy Brown. To do so, I explore how Brown's analysis of the dangers of political organizing (...)
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    A Most Disagreeable Mirror.Lawrie Balfour - 1998 - Political Theory 26 (3):346-369.
  4. Bodies in Politics.Lawrie Balfour, Falguni A. Sheth, Heath Fogg Davis, Shatema Threadcraft & Jemima Repo - 2016 - Contemporary Political Theory 15 (1):80-118.
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    Rethinking revolutionary times.Lawrie Balfour - 2023 - European Journal of Political Theory 22 (3):503-508.
    Massimiliano Tomba's Insurgent Universality is a stunning book. Conceptually, historically, and rhetorically innovative, it shows how popular challenges to conservative and liberal forms of state-centered politics outlive attempts to contain and repress them. Tomba's reading of revolutionary declarations and manifestos in France, Saint-Domingue, Russia, Mexico, and elsewhere recalls experimental democratic practices that can animate contemporary political thinking. After surveying some of Insurgent Universality's key contributions, I ask how Tomba's argument could be extended in relation to recent debates about the politics (...)
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  6. Act & Fact: Slavery Reparations as a Democratic Politics of Reconciliation.Lawrie Balfour - 2008 - In Will Kymlicka & Bashir Bashir (eds.), The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies. Oxford University Press.
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    In search of the Black fantastic: Politics and popular culture in the post-civil rights era.Lawrie Balfour - 2013 - Contemporary Political Theory 12 (4):e1-e4.
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    (2 other versions)Letter from the Editor.Lawrie Balfour - 2017 - Political Theory 45 (2):139-140.
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    11. Living “in the Red”: Time, Debt, and Justice.Lawrie Balfour - 2018 - In Brandon M. Terry & Tommie Shelby (eds.), To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Harvard University Press. pp. 236-252.
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    Review Essay: Theorizing Race, Theorizing Politics.Lawrie Balfour - 2023 - Political Theory 51 (1):253-261.
    While most of Political Theory’s 50th anniversary issue looks forward to imagining political theory in the future, the Book Review section looks backward to consider those books and schools of political theory not reviewed on the pages of the journal—but which went on to shape the field nonetheless. The aim of this section is not to constitute a new and newly virtuous canon, but rather to goad readers to reflect anew on knowledge production and the institutional and circulatory practices that (...)
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    Representative Women: Slavery, Citizenship, and Feminist Theory in Du Bois's?Damnation of Women?Lawrie Balfour - 2005 - Hypatia 20 (3):127-148.
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    Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom.Lawrie Balfour - 2023 - New York, US: OUP Usa.
    Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom explores Morrison’s reflections on the idea of freedom in her novels and nonfiction from the 1970s to 2019. While Morrison’s literary achievements are widely celebrated, her political thought has yet to receive its due. Morrison’s writing illuminates the meanings of freedom and unfreedom in a democratic society that was founded on both the defense of liberty and the right to enslave and dispossess. Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom argues that Morrison’s fiction and her meditations on the power (...)
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    Multiracial Democracy between Past and Future. [REVIEW]Lawrie Balfour - 2012 - Political Theory 40 (1):108-115.