Methods and nations: cultural governance and the indigenous subject

"Methods and Nations" critiques one of the primary deployments of twentieth-century social science: comparative politics whose major focus has been "nation-building" in the "Third World," often attempting to universalize and render self-evident its own practices. Intern...

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1. Verfasser: Shapiro, Michael J. 1940- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York [u.a.] Routledge 2004
Schriftenreihe:Global horizons
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Zusammenfassung:"Methods and Nations" critiques one of the primary deployments of twentieth-century social science: comparative politics whose major focus has been "nation-building" in the "Third World," often attempting to universalize and render self-evident its own practices. International relations theorists, unable to resist the "cognitive imperialism" of a state-centric social science, have allowed themselves to become colonized. Michael Shapiro seeks to bring recognition to forms of political expression-alternative modes of intelligibility for things, people, and spaces-that have existed on the margins of the nationhood practices of states and the complicit nation-sustaining conceits of social science.
Beschreibung:XIX, 258 S. Ill.
ISBN:0415945313
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