Book Specs
Binding
Trade Cloth
Publisher
Routledge
Published on
Jan 2, 2004
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
6.00x0.75x9.00 Inches
Weight
1.50 Pounds
About the Book
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.