Globalizing Political Theory

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. 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 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 "Globalizing Political Theory is guided by the need to understand and examine political theory globally. It highlights the myriad ways in which political theory is deeply embedded in local networks of power, identity, and structure and how they converge and diverge with the global. With the help of this book, students of political theory no longer need to learn about their 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 and Socialism, Globalization and Capitalism, 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"-- Provided by publisher