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The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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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.
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