Politics of the 'Other' in India and China
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-09797-1 (ISBN)
Proposing to shift the discussion on what constitutes the ‘Other’ as opposed to the ‘Self’ from philosophy and cultural studies to the social sciences, this book explores how the structural asymmetries existing between Western discourses and the realities of the non-Western world manifest themselves in the ideas, institutions and socio-political practices of India and China, and in how far they shape the social scientist’s understanding of their discipline in general. It provides a counter-narrative by revealing the relativity of geographies, and by showing that the conventional presentation of core elements of the Asian socio-political set-up as ‘aberrations’ from the Western models fails to acknowledge their inherent strategic character of adapting Western concepts to meet local requirements.
Drawing on multiple disciplines, concepts and contexts in India and China, the book makes a valuable contribution to the theory and practice of politics, as well as to International and Asian Studies.
Lion Koenig is Adjunct Faculty at the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, New Delhi, India. He is the co-editor of Globalisation and Governance in India: New Challenges to Society and Institutions also published by Routledge (2015). Bidisha Chaudhuri is a faculty member at the Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy (CITAPP) at International Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore (IIITB), India. She is the author of the book E-Governance in India: Interlocking Politics, Technology and Culture, which has been published by Routledge (2014).
Introduction PART I: Concepts in Context: The Case of India 1. The Hindu Nationalist Strategy of Stigmatisation and Emulation of ‘Threatening Others’: An Indian Style Fascism? 2. Stretching Secularism: Conceptual Equivocality in the Indian Context 3. Muslim Citizens versus Citizen Muslims: A Study of Discursive Strategies in Contemporary India 4. ‘Back to the roots’: The Indigenisation of Western Party Politics in Post-colonial India 5. Indian Federalism: A Hybrid Solution to the Problem of Diversity and Political Order 6. Politics of ‘Good Governance’: "Otherising" Governance in India 7. Self and Other in the Making of Foreign Policy: The Terms of Discourse in Indo-European Relations PART II: Concepts in Context: The Case of China 8. Class Politics and the Entrenchment of the Party-State in Modern China 9. The Chinese Assimilation of ‘Social Class’: Intellectual Discourses on Jieji between 1899 and 1949 10. Chinese Dreams of Socialism: Visions of a Better Future 11. Democracy with Chinese Characteristics: The Primacy of the Nation 12. ‘Othering’ in the Construction of Chinese Citizenship 13. ‘Renquan’—Chinese Human Rights: An ‘Import’ from the West or a Chinese ‘Export’? 14. Soft Power in China: Adaptation and Development of a Fashionable Concept 15. Hegemony in Chinese? Ba in Chinese International Relations
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.06.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Contemporary Asia Series |
| Zusatzinfo | 5 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-09797-7 / 1138097977 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-09797-1 / 9781138097971 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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