POL381H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Interfaith Dialogue, Scientific Racism, Eurocentrism
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Political theory and the politics of comparison. political. Boundaries of political theory expanded beyond the west. Ideas of non-west are implicated in genealogies of west. Also problematic to divide world into a number of areas of world religions (i. e. islamic) What scales of difference is comparative political theory willfully or inadvertently constituting. How do we include marginalized groups and minorities. How do we consider european colonists abroad (i. e. missionaries, settlers) Not all of the text is considered relevant or "global", some is written out as local, cultural, particular. "inclusion" can re-entrench terms upon which exclusions and inequalities are grounded. Comparison as an act of political theorizing and a discursive artifact. East and west are counter abstractions that serve chiefly to confirm theoretical generalizations about the rational and irrational, superior of inferior, and humane and barbaric. Carves out a space in which islamic accounts of jihad can be read as political theory.
