- Globalizing the field of political theory is the obvious strength of the volume.
- A thematic focus allows for a much greater dialogue, comparison, and contrapuntal reading/engagement.
- Edited by first-rate editors and features scholars working at the cutting edge of non-Western political thought.
- There does not yet exist, as far as we know, a textbook on either comparative political theory or global political theory geared toward the undergraduate and for use in political theory classes more generally.
- While there are other political science and political theory textbooks that deal with some individual topics covered by our textbook, there are none that deal with these topics together in one textbook and with the overall project of situating what are often treated as universal and abstract terms in specific historical, geographical. discursive and ideological contexts.
- The book is versatile since it can be used It can both be used as the primary textbook for an introductory class in political theory or as a supplement to a more traditional political theory class that is structured around the western canon.
- For those instructors who assign primary sources, this book provides a deep engagement with and reference to primary sources, block quotes and detailed textual exegesis, and summaries of the primary sources themselves.
- In each chapter, the authors will model close reading of the primary texts so students will learn how to do the work of political theory and retain the focus on source material that is so important to us as instructors and scholars.
- Students will have access to a selection of primary sources in political thought not available in English.
- Provides a resource not just to students, but also to instructors wishing to globalize their syllabi. Instructors across the field are looking to broaden their syllabi and include a diversity of perspectives and are often reluctant to do so because they lack expertise and training outside of the traditional western perspective.
Smita A. Rahman is the Johnson Family University Professor of Political Science at DePauw University where she teaches courses in modern, contemporary, and Islamic political thought. Her research interests lie at the intersection of contemporary and comparative political theory. In particular, she is interested in exploring how foundational concepts in political theory rupture and become contested in a globalized world of difference.
Katherine A. Gordy is a Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University, where she teaches courses in political theory and Latin American Studies. Her specific research and teaching interests are comparative political theory (Latin American and Caribbean political thought), critical theory, and theories of history and ideology.
Shirin S. Deylami is a Professor of Political Science and affiliate faculty in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Western Washington University, where she teaches courses in contemporary political theory, feminist theory, and Islamic political thought. Her research interests are at the intersection of feminist theory and Islam with particular interest in the way debates about Muslim women's identity and freedom affect Islamic and Western conceptions of self and other.
Title: Globalizing Political Theory
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ISBN: 9781032118260
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-12-02
Number of Pages: 208
Weight: 0.3501 kg
Globalizing Political Theory is a timely and rigorous volume that effectively deprovincializes intellectual histories of political thought. The editors have curated engaging conversations across time and space that show how thinkers responding to differing local contexts produced ideas and concepts that resonate beyond them.
Juliet Hooker, Professor of Political Science, Brown University
Among the most urgent missions of political theory today is to deepen its engagement with forms of thought, knowledge, and imagination beyond the Western canon. Scholars have now been doing this in greater numbers and with greater rigor for almost two decades. But debates still persist about the most urgent priorities for this mission, and the most appropriate methods and tools. This volume is an outstanding introduction to these debates for an undergraduate or graduate level, with chapters by some of the top emerging scholars working in non-Western and decolonial thought.
Andrew F. March, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Like it or not, political theory has always been global. From excavating unrecognized prehistory to plumbing contemporary transnational resonances, this essential volume brings to light what is so often hidden, and in so doing helps craft a political theory made to the measure of the world.
George Maher, Visiting Associate Professor of Global Political Thought, Vassar College
This volume offers new perspectives on a range of familiar political issues, from a range of modern thinkers from across the world. It will definitely disrupt business-as-usual in the teaching and practice of political theory.
Leigh K. Jenco, Professor of Political Theory London School of Economics and Political Science
