The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory

出版者:Oxford University Press

作者:Leigh K. Jenco

页数:780

出版时间:2019-12-30

价格:$150.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780190253752

具体描述

Increased flows of people, capital, and ideas across geographic borders raise urgent challenges to the existing terms and practices of politics. Comparative political theory seeks to devise new intellectual frames for addressing these challenges by questioning the canonical (that is, Euro-American) categories that have historically shaped inquiry in political theory and other disciplines. It does this byanalyzing normative claims, discursive structures, and formations of power in and from all parts of the world. By looking to alternative bodies of thought and experience, as well as the terms we might use to critically examine them, comparative political theory encourages self-reflexivity about the premises of normative ideas and articulates new possibilities for political theory and practice.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory provides an entry point into this burgeoning field by both synthesizing and challenging the terms which motivate it. Over the course of five thematic sections and thirty-three chapters, this volume surveys the field and archives of comparative political theory, bringing the many approaches to the field into conversation for the first time. Sections address geographic location as a subject of political theorizing; how the past becomes a key site for staking political claims; the politics of translation and appropriation; the justification of political authority; and questions of disciplinary commitment and rules of knowledge. Ultimately, the handbook demonstrates how mainstream political theory can and must be enriched through attention to genuinely global, rather than parochially Euro-American, contributions to political thinking.

作者简介

Edited by Leigh K. Jenco, Murad Idris, and Megan C. Thomas

Leigh K. Jenco is Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Murad Idris is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Virginia.

Megan C. Thomas is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Contributors:

Contributors:

Martin Odei Ajei, Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Classics, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Rochana Bajpai, Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, United Kingdom

Pablo Blitstein, MaÃtre de conférences, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Historiques, Paris, France

David Bourchier, Associate Professor, Asian Studies, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

George Ciccariello-Maher, Visiting Scholar, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York, USA

Lisandro E. Claudio, Associate Professor, Departments of History and Literature, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines

Yasmeen Daifallah, Assistant Professor, Politics, University of California - Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA

Roxanne L. Euben, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

MarÃa Luisa FemenÃas, Professor of Philosophy, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Adom Getachew, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Beng-Lan Goh, Independent Scholar, Adjunct Professor, Department of Area Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia

Jane Anna Gordon, Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA

Katherine A. Gordy, Associate Professor, Political Science, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA

Stuart Gray, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, USA

Juliet Hooker, Professor, Political Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Murad Idris, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

Humeira Iqtidar, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Department of Political Economy, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Leigh K. Jenco, Professor, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom

Kim Youngmin, Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Jimmy Casas Klausen, Professor, Instituto de Relações Internacionais, PontifÃcia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Aishwary Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of History of Consciousness, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA

Andrew F. March, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

Viren Murthy, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Robert Nichols, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA

Uchenna Okeja, Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Okubo Takeharu, Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

Delia Popescu, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Director, Peace and Global Studies, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, USA

M. B. Ramose, Associate Research Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Ga-Rankuwa, South Africa

Andrew Sartori, Professor, Department of History, New York University, New York, USA

Sanjay Seth, Professor, Politics, Goldsmith's College, University of London, London, UK

Megan C. Thomas, Associate Professor, Politics, University of California - Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA

Elizabeth Urban, Assistant Professor, History Department, West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

Matthew J. Walton, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

目录信息

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
1. Comparison, Connectivity, and Disconnection
Jenco, Leigh K.; Idris, Murad; Thomas, Megan C.
Section One: Geographies of Thought
2. The Plantation's Colonial Modernity in Comparative Perspective
Getachew, Adom
3. Situated Political Theory in Latin America
Gordy, Katherine A.
4. An Interpretive Approach to "Chinese" Identity
Kim, Youngmin
5. "Inter-Asia as Method" and Radical Politics
Goh, Beng-Lan
6. Toward a Tradition of Ghanaian Political Philosophy
Ajei, Martin Odei
7. Mapping Afro-Caribbean Political Thought
Gordon, Jane Anna
Section Two: The Presence of the Past
8. Santo Domingo and the Politics of Classical Reception in the Caribbean
Padilla Peralta, Dan-el
9. The Politics of Time in China and Japan
Murthy, Viren
10. The Idea of an Arab-Islamic Heritage
Daifallah, Yasmeen
11. History, the Hindu Right, and Subversion of Brahmanical-Hindu Political Thought
Gray, Stuart
12. Motho ke motho ka batho, an African Perspective on Popular Sovereignty and Democracy
Ramose, M. B.
13. Gender and Slavery in Islamic Political Thought
Urban, Elizabeth
Section Three: Translatability across Time and Space
14. The Labor Question and Political Thought in Colonial Bengal
Sartori, Andrew
15. Humiliation through the Prism of Islamic Thought
Euben, Roxanne L.
16. War without End, or, Ambedkar, Time, and Stasis
Kumar, Aishwary
17. The Aggañña Sutta and the Therav?da Buddhist Tradition
Walton, Matthew J.
18. The Concept of Rights in Modern Japan
?kubo Takeharu
19. Hemispheric Comparison in Latin American Anti-Imperial Thought
Hooker, Juliet
20. Latin American Women and Democracy, Identity, and Transformation
Femenías, María Luisa
21. The Twin Enlightenments of Marxism and Liberalism in the Philippines
Claudio, Lisandro E.
Section Four: Political Authority and Its Legitimation
22. Liberalisms in India
Bajpai, Rochana
23. Populism, Universalism, and Democracy in Latin America
Ciccariello-Maher, George
24. Searching for "Tolerance" in Islamic Thought
Iqtidar, Humeira
25. Modern Islamic Conceptions of Sovereignty in Comparative Perspective
March, Andrew F.
26. Palaver and Consensus as Metaphors for the Public Sphere
Okeja, Uchenna
27. Meritocracy, Aristocracy, and "Literati Democracy" in Chinese Imperial History
Blitstein, Pablo Ariel
28. Organicism in Indonesian Political Thought
Bourchier, David
Section Five: Discipline and Dissent
29. A Postcolonial Critique of Comparative Political Theory
Seth, Sanjay
30. Indigenous Struggles for Epistemic Justice
Nichols, Robert
31. Civilization and Culture in Anticolonial and Comparative Political Theory
Klausen, Jimmy Casas
32. Eastern European Political Thought as a Conceptual Tool
Popescu, Delia
33. The "Legitimacy of Chinese Philosophy" Debate and the Global Extension of Disciplinary Knowledge
Jenco, Leigh K.
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