Politics of the 'Other' in India and China: Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts

ISBN-13: 9781138097971 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Lion Koenig; Bidisha Chaudhuri

Opis

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. 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.

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Spis treści

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