Publications

2026 Power Without Violence Alexander Livingston · Amor Mundi: The Weekly Newsletter of the Hannah Arendt Center — 2025 Civil Disobedience Alexander Livingston · Possessed: The Historical Ideas that Haunt Us [Podcast] — 2025 Letter from a Birmingham Jail Alexander Livingston · The Oxford Handbook of Political Obligation — 2024 Decarcerating Civil Disobedience: Punishment, Policing, and the Problem of Innocence Alexander Livingston · Research Handbook on Liberalism 2 2024 Finding a ‘Niche’ for Civil Disobedience? Decriminalizing Disobedience in the Post-Civil Rights Era Alexander Livingston · The Review of Politics — 2024 Nazmul Sultan, Waiting for the People: Democracy: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Political Thought (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024) Alexander Livingston · Political Theory 0 2024 Poder para aqueles sem poder: A teoria tardia da desobediência civil de Martin Luther King Jr. Alexander Livingston · Dissonância: Revista de Teoria Crítica · Scholar only — 2024 There is No Free Expression without Disruptive Expression Alexander Livingston · The Cornell Daily Sun — 2024 When Free Expression Becomes Civil Disobedience Alexander Livingston · The Cornell Daily Sun — 2022 Alexander Livingston on his New Edited Volume, James Tully: To Think and Act Differently Alexander Livingston · Society for the Humanities, Cornell University — 2022 An Approach to Public Philosophy: James Tully in Contexts Alexander Livingston · James Tully: To Think and Act Differently 0 2022 An Interview with James Tully Alexander Livingston · James Tully 0 2022 Civil Disobedience as Morally Motivated Law Breaking Alexander Livingston · Keloland.com — 2022 Civil Disobedience, King, and Gandhi Alexander Livingston · Just Riot Theory Podcast — 2022 In Extremis: The Wildness of William James Alexander Livingston · Contemporary Pragmatism 1 2022 James Tully: To Think and Act Differently Alexander Livingston · Routledge 4 2021 Nonviolence and the Coercive Turn in Civil Disobedience Alexander Livingston · The Cambridge Companion to Civil Disobedience 18 2020 Inventing Nonviolence Alexander Livingston · Boston Review 2 2020 Power for the Powerless: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Late Theory of Civil Disobedience Alexander Livingston · The Journal of Politics 34 2020 Some Political Consequences of Pragmatism (vol 16, pg 329, 2019) Alexander Livingston · CONTEMPORARY PRAGMATISM · Scholar only — 2020 Theorizing the Politics of Protest: Contemporary Debates on Civil Disobedience Alexander Livingston · Contemporary Political Theory · Scholar only 54 2020 There’s Nothing Peaceful about Nonviolence if You’re Doing it Right Alexander Livingston · Jacobin Magazine — 2020 The turn to dignity: Tommie Shelby and Brandon M. Terry (eds), To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Cambridge, MA and London … Alexander Livingston · Patterns of Prejudice · Scholar only — 2020 Thinking with the Streets: Civil Disobedience Between Theory and Practice Alexander Livingston · Contemporary Political Theory — 2020 Tommie Shelby and Brandon M. Terry, To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Harvard University Press, 2018) Alexander Livingston · Patterns of Prejudice 0 2020 Tough Love: The Political Theology of Civil Disobedience Alexander Livingston · Perspectives on Politics 29 2019 Against Civil Disobedience Alexander Livingston · Res Publica 9 2019 Climate Strike? Fragility and Militancy in the Anthropocene Alexander Livingston · Contemporary Political Theory — 2019 Jennet Kirkpatrick, The Virtues of Exit: On Resistance and Quitting Politics for Political Theory (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017) Alexander Livingston · Political Theory 2 2019 Some Political Consequences of Pragmatism Alexander Livingston · Contemporary Pragmatism 0 2019 William E. Connolly Alexander Livingston · Radikale Demokratietheorie: Ein Handbuch · needs review — 2018 Entangled Humanism as a Political Project: William Connolly’s Facing the Planetary Alexander Livingston · Contemporary Political Theory · Scholar only · needs review 2 2018 Fidelity to Truth: Gandhi and the Genealogy of Civil Disobedience Alexander Livingston · Political Theory 45 2018 In Search of a Moral Equivalent of War: An Introduction Alexander Livingston · William James Studies — 2018 John Dewey’s Experiments in Democratic Socialism Alexander Livingston · Jacobin Magazine 14 2018 The Cost of Liberty: Sacrifice and Survival in Du Bois’s John Brown Alexander Livingston · A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois 0 2017 Between Means and Ends: Reconstructing Coercion in Dewey’s Democratic Theory Alexander Livingston · American Political Science Review 63 2017 Discussant on “Is America on the Brink of a Second Civil War?” Alexander Livingston · The Current, CBC Radio 1 — 2017 Étienne Balibar, Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015) Alexander Livingston · Contemporary Political Theory 2 2017 Is America Descending into Political Violence Again? I Asked 12 Experts Alexander Livingston · Vox — 2017 Pragmatism, Practice and the Politics of Critique Alexander Livingston · Contemporary Pragmatism 5 2017 Special Section on Pragmatism: The Task Before Us Alexander Livingston · contemporary pragmatism · Scholar only — 2017 The World According to Bannon Alexander Livingston · Jacobin Magazine — 2017 When Protests Work Alexander Livingston · Public Seminar — 2016 Damn Great Empires! William James and the Politics of Pragmatism Alexander Livingston · Oxford University Press 104 2016 Jennifer Greiman, Democracy’s Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum Writing (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010) Alexander Livingston · Political Theory 0 2016 Moralism and Its Discontents Alexander Livingston · Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 1 2016 The Right to Justification: Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice Alexander Livingston · HUMANITY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS HUMANITARIANISM AND · Scholar only — 2014 Debt, Democracy, and the Power of Ideas: On Mark Blyth’s Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea Alexander Livingston · Theory & Event — 2014 Habit Alexander Livingston · The Encyclopedia of Political Thought 0