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FOCUS: The Marketization of Environmental Concerns
2026 (48) Issue 2

Social expectations surrounding environmentally responsible behavior lead more and more corporations to display their sustainability efforts. While social and political theory has engaged intensively with conceptual and normative debates regarding environmental challenges and climate politics in recent years, there are still relatively few systematic and interdisciplinary inquiries of the marketization of environmental concerns. Only a few social and political theorists have started to identify forms of deceptive or ideological green communication. However, further critical inquiry is needed to address additional questions surrounding the marketization of environmental concerns. These include issues of democratic agency and free speech, the distribution of individual and collective responsibility, and the ways in which current sustainability debates may continue to reinforce capitalist interests.

Analyse & Kritik welcomes submissions that explore normative, empirical, and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of green communication or the marketization of environmental concerns.The deadline for submitting papers of 8000 words is 1 September 2026. To submit your paper, please send a word file to the journal editors via jculp@aup.edu and leist@philos.uzh.ch.

FOCUS: Ideology and Revolution
2027 (49) Issue 1

Allen Buchanan’s book, Ideology and Revolution (Cambridge UP 2025), centres around the normative dilemma that the greater the system of oppression against which revolutions are directed, the less likely they are to bring about non-authoritarian states in the revolutionary aftermath. An underlying principle is that violent conditions can only be overcome through counter-violence, and that the agents of this counter-violence find it difficult to make the transition to nonviolence in the post-revolutionary period. This central thesis is supported by several innovative conceptual choices and subsidiary theories. These include: (1) a neutral concept of ideology that views ideologies as theory-like sets of empirical and moral beliefs, (2) a distinction between Lockean (civil) and Hobbesian (pre-civil) pre-revolutionary circumstances, and (3) an analysis of revolutions based on the contribution problem of collective goods. Analyses of moral progress and social change are introduced but remain in the background of the book\\\'s analysis of revolutions.

This theory distances itself both from the Marxist concept of ideology and from pluralistic explanations of revolution. The key idea that ideologies can be as well liberating as oppressive is employed to analyse the ambiguous character of revolutions, namely that they are, even if potentially liberating more often substituting old oppressions by new ones. But is the idea of moral progress really compatible with this open view of revolutions? By drawing on historical material and illustration the theory relies heavily on the (certainly paradigmatic) revolutions of 1789 (France) and 1918 (Russia). These examples explain the ambiguity of power exercised through revolutions, but what about counterexamples? Buchanan mentions himself the rule of law introducing Magna Carta.

We invite contributions to this original and concise theory of revolutionary developments. Due to its generality the arguments in this book could also be tested on current pre-, post-, quasi-, or genuinely revolutionary movements. We think of current events happening in Iran and Palestine, Ukraine (the Maidan as a revolution), the U.S. (the refusal to recognize the 2020 Biden election), and even European populist movements as examples of pre-revolutionary phenomena. Buchanan’s theoretical innovations (re ideology, revolution, moral progress, social change) should be discussed in the context of specific historical and political science cases to do justice to his multidisciplinary approach.

Analyse & Kritik welcomes submissions. The deadline for submitting papers of 8000 words is 15th January 2027. To submit your paper, please send a word file to the journal editors via jculp@aup.edu or leist@philos.uzh.ch.

FOCUS: Just Property
2027 (49) Issue 2

Economists such as Stiglitz, Atkinson and Piketty recently used the rising economic inequality in Western countries to demand a massive overhaul of present tax systems. However, simply pointing out fatal consequences of inequality alone does not provide a conclusive reason for how to redistribute wealth. To do so requires a theory of just property. In this focus, we collect articles covering normative arguments concerning just property. We give preference to the traditions of Locke and Marx, whose fundamental ideas, even if contradictory in its aims, continue to shape contemporary social consciousness. Can Locke’s individualist theory of acquisition through free action be revised, or must it definitively be rejected? Is a social concept of exploitation suitable for justifying property acquired through labour under egalitarian (Cohen, Roemer) or libertarian (Vrousalis) preconditions? Further, many normative approaches to property rights presuppose a psychology of property – but is such a psychology still realistic today? Finally, does the increasing scarcity of natural resources compel us to forgo subjective rights to property and to adopt new forms of public property of the natural environment?

Analyse & Kritik welcomes submissions. The deadline for submitting papers of 8000 words is March 1st. To submit your paper, please send a word file to the journal editors via kculp@aup.edu or leist@philos.uzh.ch.