Critical Studies in Politics: Exploring Sites, Selves, Power

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Critical Studies in Politics is a collection of essays that redefines the discipline of political science by bringing into view objects of study not usually visible to the discipline.The volume is divided into four broadintersecting sections.The question of constructions of selfhood emerges as a central preoccupation in the first, titled 'Exploring Selfhood'.The second section 'Spatiality and Power' analyses the idea of spatiality and explains its relationship with power.The third section titled 'State and Governmentality'examines state practices as they renderlegible various aspects of populations. The final section, 'Reconfiguring Categories of Thought'seeks to unsettle conceptual categories such as 'capitalism', 'science' 'politics' and 'development'.


About the Author


Nivedita Menon (ed.) is Professor, Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.

Aditya Nigam (ed.) is Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

Sanjay Palshikar (ed.) is Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.