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ACPT syllabus 20-21

ACPT presentation schedule 2020

Pol IR PG Intro part 4

Pol IR PG Intro part 2

Pol IR PG Intro part 3

Pol IR PG intro part 1

Week 1 Analytical Approaches: Introduction

Freeden reading

Rochana Bajpai and Brooke Ackerly, ‘Comparative Political Thought’ in Adrian Blau ed. Methods in Analytical Political Theory, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017), pp. 270-296. (copy)

Dallmayr reading

Lecture 1 What is CPT?

Week 2 Comparison in Comparative Political Thought (CB) (15 October)

March, Andrew, ‘What is Comparative Political Theory?’ Review of Politics (2009), 531-565.

Godrej, Farah, ‘Response to “What is Comparative Political Theory”?’ Review of Politics (2009), 567-82.

Idris, Murad. "Political Theory and the Politics of Comparison." Political Theory 44 (2016), 1-20.

Week 2 Comparison in Comparative Political Thought pre-recorded lecture

Week 3 Thought in Comparative Political Thought

Charles Taylor Modern Social Imaginaries

Lisa Wedeen Conceptualizing Culture

Adom Getachew 2016

Rochana Bajpai and Brooke Ackerly, ‘Comparative Political Thought’ in Adrian Blau ed. Methods in Analytical Political Theory, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017), pp. 270-296.

Thought in CPT notes

Week 4 Space and Time in Comparative Political Thought

Thomas, Megan C. ‘Orientalism and Comparative Political Theory’, Review of Politics 72:4 (2010), 653-77.

Mbembe, Achille, On the Postcolony (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001), Introduction: ‘Time on the Move’, pp. 1-19.

Bose, Sugata. A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 2006) ch. 1: ‘Space and Time on the Indian Ocean Rim’, pp. 1-35.

Godrej, Farah, Cosmopolitan Political Thought: Method, Practice, Discipline (New York: Oxford, 2011), Chs. 1, 2.

Goto-Jones 2011

Megan Thomas

Link to ACPT class 1-3pm Thursday 29 Oct. 2020

Week 5 Comparison, Postcolonialism, and the Question of Knowledge Production (CB) (5 November)

Jenco, Leigh, ‘What does Heaven Ever Say? A Methods-centered Approach to Cross-Cultural Engagement’, American Political Science Review 101:4 (2007), 741-55.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh, ‘Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for “Indian” Pasts?’, Representations 37 (1992), pp. 1-26.

Quijano, Aníbal. "Coloniality and modernity/rationality." Cultural studies 21.2-3 (2007): pp.168-178.

Week 5 Comparison, Postcolonialism, and the Question of Knowledge Production lecture (audio)

Week 5 Comparison, Postcolonialism, and the Question of Knowledge Production lecture (powerpoints)

WEEK 7: Translation (RB) (19 November)

Walter Benjamin, The translator's task

Gayatri Spivak, Translating into English

Reinhardt, Marc-Alexandre, and André Habib. "The Untranslatable: A New Theoretical Fulcrum? An Exchange with Barbara Cassin." SubStance 44.2 (2015): 6-14.

Sakai, Naoki. Translation and subjectivity: On" Japan" and cultural nationalism (1997). Ch. 2.

Sakai interview

Translation notes

Week 8 Cultural Incommensurability

Homi Bhabha

Mahmood, Saba

Ian Hacking excerpt

BBC Reith Lectures by Kwame A. Appiah on creed, culture and identity

Cultural Incommensurability powerpoint presentation

ACPT Cultural Incommensurability Seminar Notes Nov 2019

Tambiah

WEEK 9: The political and the People (RB) (03 December)

Schmitt, Carl The Concept of the Political (tr. George Schwab) (Chicago, 2007), pp. 19-37

Sudipta Kaviraj on Rajniti

Partha Chatterjee Politics of the Governed

Adi Ophir, “The Political” in Bernstein, Jay M., et al. Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon. Fordham University Press, 2018.

Sadri Khiari “The People and the Third People” in Alain Badiou, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler et al., What is a People (Columbia University Press, 2016)

The Populism That Is Not to Be Found, by Jacques Rancière

Jan Werner Muller on the people

The political and the people lecture notes

Week 10 State and Authority

Mbembe, Achille. ‘At the Edge of the World: Boundaries, Territoriality and Sovereignty in Africa,’ Public Culture 12 (1) 2000: 259-84.

El Amine, Loubna. "Beyond East and West: Reorienting political theory through the prism of modernity." Perspectives on Politics 14.1 (2016), pp. 102-120.

Foucault, “Governmentality,” in Akhil Gupta and Aradhana Sharma, The Anthroplogy of the State (Oxford, 2006), pp. 131-143.

WATCH THIS: Mamdani lecture on 'State Formation and Conflict'

ACPT The State and Authority

ACPT State and Authority Dec 2020

Mamdani, Mahmood, Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2012)Introduction and preface, pp. 1-42; ebook available online via library.

Mbembe, Achille

Butler and Spivak

J. Nehru, The Unity of India