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Proponents of horseshoe theory argue that the far-left and the far-right are closer to each other than either is to the political center. In popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that advocates of the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear continuum of the political spectrum, closely ...
Apr 16, 2013 · Abstract. This article will present the impact that political theory has made and the opportunities for future contributions. It will consider the contributions made by leading political theorists to policy debates, the lessons learned from their successes, and how political theorists might further pursue existing and new opportunities to ...
- Thom Brooks
- 2013
- Abstract
- Reconstructing Anticolonial Thought: Gandhi and Fanon
- The Limits of The Contemporary Critique of Eurocentrism
- Alternative Modes of Decolonizing Political Theory
- Conclusion
Decolonization has become a critical watchword across the humanities and social sciences. It challenges disciplines to attend to their implication in histories of imperial domination and racial hierarchy and to reckon with the continuing ideological imprint of this past. Political theory has joined this effort at decolonizing in several promising m...
Gandhi and Fanon have been accepted in the canon of political theory as representatives of anticolonial criticism. As such, much is at stake in how we situate and interpret their arguments and political projects. One reason why we focus on their contributions—rather than attend to lesser-known figures in the anticolonialtradition—is to illustrate s...
In contemporary political theory, attempts to reckon with the legacies of empire and the challenge of Eurocentrism have enlisted insights from anticolonial criticism. While there are similarities and overlaps in common worries over epistemic domination and occlusion, the ways in which the problem of Eurocentrism is posed and resolved today are mark...
The decolonization of political theory can move beyond the critique of Eurocentrism by taking up the political predicaments of the non-Western world as sites of political theorizing. In the first section of this essay, we sketched a historical and contextual approach to this task that situated Gandhi and Fanon in the specific problem-space of antic...
Our strategies of conceptual innovation and reanimation are efforts to reimagine the task of decolonizing political theory. They emerge from the view that the current conception of this task has been too narrowly preoccupied with the critique of Eurocentrism. This has led to arguments and solutions that are often self-referential and abstract. Thou...
Mar 24, 2022 · Beginning with a historical perspective on the long and short past of political theory, I argue for three priorities for the field’s future: (1) theorizing why and how constitutional democracies corrode and die, and what might be done to stop rising authoritarianism and fascism, as well as racism and misogyny, in liberal egalitarian political ...
Jan 3, 2023 · The criticisms and limitations of each approach to political theory include the problem of subjectivity in normative political theory, the risk of presentism in historical political theory, and the difficulty of determining causality and the potential for bias in empirical political theory.
In Canada and at Oxford, Charles Taylor (1975) was thinking about politics through a rereading of Hegel that stressed the importance of community to political autonomy, influencing Michael Sandel (1982) and many subsequent theorists of multiculturalism.
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Nov 10, 2008 · We argue that a useful analysis of the democratic status of judicial review must abandon the “countermajoritarian difficulty” as an underlying premise. The assumption that judicial review is “countermajoritarian” and therefore a “deviant” institution is critically flawed in two critical respects.
