Globalizing Political Theory is guided by the need to understand political theory as deeply embedded in local networks of power, identity, and structure, and to examine how these networks converge and diverge with the global. With the help of this book, students of political theory no longer need to learn about ideas in a vacuum with little or no attention paid to how such ideas are responses to varying local political problems in different places, times, and contexts.
Key features include:
- Central Conceptual Framework: Introducing readers to what it means to “globalize” political theory and to move beyond the traditional western canon and actively engage with a multiplicity of perspectives.
- Organization: Focused on key topics essential for an introductory class aimed at both globalizing political theory and showing how political theory itself is a globalizing activity.
- Themes: Colonialism and Empire; Gender and Sexuality; Religion and Secularism; Marxism, Socialism, and Globalization; Democracy and Protest; and Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity.
- Pedagogy: Each chapter features theoretical concepts and definitions, political and historical context, key authors and biographical context, textual evidence and exegesis from the foundational texts in that thematic area, a list of discussion questions, and a list of resources for further reading.
Committed to a multiplicity of perspectives and an active engagement between the global and the local, Globalizing Political Theory connects directly with undergraduate and graduate-level courses in political theory, global political theory, and non-western political thought.
Author(s): Smita A. Rahman, Katherine A. Gordy, Shirin S. Deylami
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 223
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: What Does It Mean to Globalize Political Theory?
PART I: Colonialism and Empire
1. The Mentor and the Mentee: Competing Visions in Vietnamese Political Thought
2. From Black Liberation to Human Freedom: Claudia Jones, Frantz Fanon, and Universal Emancipation
3. Life, Death, and Futurity in the Work of Achille Mbembe
PART II: Gender and Sexuality
4. The Ayatollah Khomeini: Gender and Sexuality in the Fight against Westoxification
5. Toward an Afro-Latin American Feminism: Notes on Lélia Gonzalez’s Theorizations
6. Different Foundations for Islamic Feminisms: Comparing Genealogical and Textual Approaches in Ahmed and Parvez
PART III: Religion and Secularism
7. Sayyid Qutb and the Politics of Renewal
8. The Dialectical Utopianism of Ali Shariati
9. The Sikh and Ahmadiyya Communities: Finding Shared and Distinct Understandings of the Oneness of God through Religious Pluralism
PART IV: Marxism, Socialism, and Globalization
10. Walter Rodney and Samir Amin: From Relations of Underdevelopment to Global Decolonization
11. Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s Political Economy: Balancing Development and Dis-Alienation
12. R. İhsan Eliaçık: Anti-Capitalist Islamic Thought in Turkey
13. Thomas Malthus and Global Malthusianism
PART V: Democracy and Protest
14. “Be Water, My Friend”: Protest, Identity Politics, and Democracy in Hong Kong
15. Fatima Meer’s Father: Storytelling-History, Racialized Men of Color and Feminism, and Overcoming the Precarity of Black-Asian Solidarity
16. Abdias do Nascimento: Quilombist Praxis Amidst the Genocide of Black People
PART VI: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
17. Contesting Conquest: Titu Cusi Yupanqui’s Anticolonial Resistance
18. Haunani-Kay Trask, Ka Lāhui Hawai’i, and Indigenous Sovereignty
19. W.E.B. Du Bois, the Negro Problem, and the Case against Black Involvement in War
Index
