Methods and Nations: Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject Contributor(s): Shapiro, Michael J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415945321 ISBN-13: 9780415945325 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2004 Annotation: "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. |
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BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | International Relations - General |
Dewey: 306.2 |
LCCN: 2003013950 |
Series: Global Horizons |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.24" W x 9.16" (0.99 lbs) 258 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |