Kennan Ferguson (born September 28, 1968) is an American political theorist who writes on contemporary issues concerning pluralism and the quotidian.
He holds that political philosophy should emerge from the actual practices of people, rather than being a set of abstract systems which they should be forced to follow.
In his investigations of the role of aesthetic judgment, pets, silence, and cookbooks in people's lives, he shows how love, sensibility, and the ontic overlap with authority, force, and political identity.
[3] In 2017, Ferguson criticized the discipline of political science in the United States for its "institutionally naturalized" exclusion of Native American scholars, perspectives, texts, and issues.
[4] In response, the Native legal theorist David E. Wilkins responded that he sees "nothing on the horizon to indicate that there will be any substantive alterations in the intellectual pursuits of most political scientists anytime soon.