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Politics of the 'Other' in India and China - Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts (Paperback)
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Politics of the 'Other' in India and China - Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
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The social sciences have been heavily influenced by modernization
theory, focusing on issues of economic growth, political
development and social change, in order to develop a predictive
model of linear progress for developing countries following a
Western prototype. Under this hegemonic paradigm of development the
world tends to get divided into simplistic binary oppositions
between the 'West' and the 'rest', 'us' and 'them' and 'self' and
'other'. Proposing to shift the discussion on what constitutes the
'Other' as opposed to the 'Self' from philosophy and cultural
studies to the social sciences, this book explores how the
structural asymmetries existing between Western discourses and the
realities of the non-Western world manifest themselves in the
ideas, institutions and socio-political practices of India and
China, and in how far they shape the social scientist's
understanding of their discipline in general. It provides a
counter-narrative by revealing the relativity of geographies, and
by showing that the conventional presentation of core elements of
the Asian socio-political set-up as 'aberrations' from the Western
models fails to acknowledge their inherent strategic character of
adapting Western concepts to meet local requirements. Drawing on
multiple disciplines, concepts and contexts in India and China, the
book makes a valuable contribution to the theory and practice of
politics, as well as to International and Asian Studies.
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