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40 Pol. Theory 3 (2012)

handle is hein.journals/ptxa40 and id is 1 raw text is: Political Theory From the Editor R 2012 SAGEPubications Reprints and permission: http://www. sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1 177/009059171 1431429 http://ptx.sagepub.com SAGE To start off this New Year at the journal with an auspicious new beginning: on behalf of the Editors and Executive Editorial Committee, I announce with great pleasure that Jane Bennett (Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University) has accepted appointment as the new Editor of Political Theory. Jane's term officially begins in January 2013 but the journal will be making its unofficial transition from Northwestern University to Johns Hopkins University in summer 2012. As former Book Review Editor of PT, Jane brings to the journal an already highly charged experiential sense of its long-standing commitments and responsibilities to our expansive field of inquiry. Yet as we know from her two most recent books, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Duke University Press 2010) and The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics (Princeton University Press 2001), Jane is also a political theorist who values energy, vitality, surprise, and innovation. To appreciate the richness of Jane's scholar- ship, then, is to anticipate an exhilarating ride and new directions for Political Theory in the years to come. Ringing in the new includes a welcome to the journal's most recent addi- tions to the Executive Editorial Committee: Rainer Forst and Achille Mbembe. Rainer Forst is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Co-Director of the Research Cluster The Formation of Normative Orders, and Vice Director of the Research Centre Justitia Amplificata. His specializations include Frankfurt School critical theory; contemporary liberal political theory; theories of justice and toleration; and ethical theory. Rainer is the author of many books and articles, including Contexts of Justice (U California Press 2002), and now forthcoming in English translation, The Right to Justification (Columbia U Press), Justification and Critique (Polity Press), and Toleration in Conflict (Cambridge U Press). Achille Mbembe is Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand and Visiting Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University. He specializes in Continental theory, decolonial and postcolonial studies, African history and politics, aesthet- ics, and literary criticism. In addition to numerous papers and essays, Achille is the author of On the Postcolony (U California Press 2001), On Private Indirect

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