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Comparative Political Theory: A Postcolonial Critique
| Summary: | Political theory has been rightly accused of being a Eurocentric enterprise, one that has constructed a canon that is composed almost exclusively of texts produced in what we have come to think of as Europe, and one which is based on con- cepts and categories that are borne of a European history, and are not necessarily universalizable. This paper considers and develops that critique from the viewpoint of postcolonial theory, and asks whether political theory can be reformulated and thus ‘rescued’, as Comparative Political Theory tries to do or whether it is an inherently and irremediably Eurocentric enterprise. |
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| Main Authors: | Seth, Sanjay |
| Subject: | Teoria Política Comparada Pós-Colonialismo Pós-Colonialismo História História Eurocentrismo Eurocentrismo Comparative Political Theory Comparative Political Theory Post-Colonialism Post-Colonialism History History Eurocentrism Eurocentrism |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Document type: | article |
| Access type: | unknown |
| Associated institution: | Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Origin: | Práticas da História |
| Summary: | Political theory has been rightly accused of being a Eurocentric enterprise, one that has constructed a canon that is composed almost exclusively of texts produced in what we have come to think of as Europe, and one which is based on con- cepts and categories that are borne of a European history, and are not necessarily universalizable. This paper considers and develops that critique from the viewpoint of postcolonial theory, and asks whether political theory can be reformulated and thus ‘rescued’, as Comparative Political Theory tries to do or whether it is an inherently and irremediably Eurocentric enterprise. |
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