York Centre for Political Theory (YCPT)

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Political Theory is a prime area of research strength at York. Traditionally an area York has been known for, political theory has expanded, diversified, and gained increased visibility in recent years. York is now home to one of the strongest and most dynamic political theory groups in the UK and in Europe.

Unique for its size, the political theory group is also unique for its scope. Members have a unique profile, which sets them apart from other groups. With all the different strains within political theory represented – historical, analytic, critical – the group is singularly diverse. Its positive and inclusive research culture is responsible for nurturing not only diversity, but integrated diversity, leading up to the creation of problem-driven, innovative mixed approaches, which underpin the group’s capacity to generate new research questions and new venues of enquiry.

Numerous new lines of research have developed as a result, with York political theorists working at the frontier of the subject. Members' research activity is shaping the way in which political theory is practiced and translating into high quality scholarship, published in some of the main academic presses and journals in the field. The chief mission of the York Centre for Political Theory is to sustain and further this capacity for the future.

A hub for research-based innovation and practice, the Centre provides an exciting and vibrant research environment in which political theorists can work and develop their ideas. The Centre aims at increasing opportunities for strategic research partnerships within the sub-discipline and with related fields. In particular, it supports more permanent frameworks for exchange and interdisciplinary research collaboration with faculties, departments, and centres across the university and beyond.

In York alone, the network of academics working broadly in the field of political theory and philosophy is wide, including colleagues from the Departments of Philosophy, History, Law and English and Related Literature, and political theorists.

Political theory is inherently interdisciplinary: part philosophy, part history, part social science, and part humanities. Members identify, develop, and exploit synergies between the parts that make the singularity of political theory in developing projects with a strong interdisciplinary within three broad research themes:

• pasts and futures of civil society;
• political theory;
• the political theory of political economy.

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