• ISBN13: 9781032118260
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: December 10, 2023
• Pages: 224
• Original Price: 37.99 GBP
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 310 grams

With the help of this book, students of political theory no longer need to learn about their ideas in a vacuum with little or no attention paid to how such ideas are responses to varying local political problems in different places, times, and contexts.

Smita A. Rahman is the Johnson Family University Professor of Political Science at DePauw University where she teaches courses in modern, contemporary, and Islamic political thought. Her research interests lie at the intersection of contemporary and comparative political theory. In particular, she is interested in exploring how foundational concepts in political theory rupture and become contested in a globalized world of difference.

Katherine A. Gordy is a Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University, where she teaches courses in political theory and Latin American Studies. Her specific research and teaching interests are comparative political theory (Latin American and Caribbean political thought), critical theory, and theories of history and ideology.

Shirin S. Deylami is a Professor of Political Science and affiliate faculty in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Western Washington University, where she teaches courses in contemporary political theory, feminist theory, and Islamic political thought. Her research interests are at the intersection of feminist theory and Islam with particular interest in the way debates about Muslim women’s identity and freedom affect Islamic and Western conceptions of self and other.