The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory: (Oxford Handbooks)

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.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments List of Contributors 1. Comparison, Connectivity, and Disconnection Jenco, Leigh K.; Idris, Murad; Thomas, Megan C. Section One: Geographies of Thought 2. The Plantation's Colonial Modernity in Comparative Perspective Getachew, Adom 3. Situated Political Theory in Latin America Gordy, Katherine A. 4. An Interpretive Approach to "Chinese" Identity Kim, Youngmin 5. "Inter-Asia as Method" and Radical Politics Goh, Beng-Lan 6. Toward a Tradition of Ghanaian Political Philosophy Ajei, Martin Odei 7. Mapping Afro-Caribbean Political Thought Gordon, Jane Anna Section Two: The Presence of the Past 8. Santo Domingo and the Politics of Classical Reception in the Caribbean Padilla Peralta, Dan-el 9. The Politics of Time in China and Japan Murthy, Viren 10. The Idea of an Arab-Islamic Heritage Daifallah, Yasmeen 11. History, the Hindu Right, and Subversion of Brahmanical-Hindu Political Thought Gray, Stuart 12. Motho ke motho ka batho, an African Perspective on Popular Sovereignty and Democracy Ramose, M. B. 13. Gender and Slavery in Islamic Political Thought Urban, Elizabeth Section Three: Translatability across Time and Space 14. The Labor Question and Political Thought in Colonial Bengal Sartori, Andrew 15. Humiliation through the Prism of Islamic Thought Euben, Roxanne L. 16. War without End, or, Ambedkar, Time, and Stasis Kumar, Aishwary 17. The Aggañña Sutta and the Therav?da Buddhist Tradition Walton, Matthew J. 18. The Concept of Rights in Modern Japan ?kubo Takeharu 19. Hemispheric Comparison in Latin American Anti-Imperial Thought Hooker, Juliet 20. Latin American Women and Democracy, Identity, and Transformation Femenías, María Luisa 21. The Twin Enlightenments of Marxism and Liberalism in the Philippines Claudio, Lisandro E. Section Four: Political Authority and Its Legitimation 22. Liberalisms in India Bajpai, Rochana 23. Populism, Universalism, and Democracy in Latin America Ciccariello-Maher, George 24. Searching for "Tolerance" in Islamic Thought Iqtidar, Humeira 25. Modern Islamic Conceptions of Sovereignty in Comparative Perspective March, Andrew F. 26. Palaver and Consensus as Metaphors for the Public Sphere Okeja, Uchenna 27. Meritocracy, Aristocracy, and "Literati Democracy" in Chinese Imperial History Blitstein, Pablo Ariel 28. Organicism in Indonesian Political Thought Bourchier, David Section Five: Discipline and Dissent 29. A Postcolonial Critique of Comparative Political Theory Seth, Sanjay 30. Indigenous Struggles for Epistemic Justice Nichols, Robert 31. Civilization and Culture in Anticolonial and Comparative Political Theory Klausen, Jimmy Casas 32. Eastern European Political Thought as a Conceptual Tool Popescu, Delia 33. The "Legitimacy of Chinese Philosophy" Debate and the Global Extension of Disciplinary Knowledge Jenco, Leigh K.

About the Author :
Leigh K. Jenco is Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Murad Idris is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Virginia. Megan C. Thomas is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.