Methods and Nations: Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject

By Michael J. Shapiro

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415945313
• ISBN13: 9780415945318
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"