Methods and Nations Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject

• Main Author: Shapiro, Michael J.
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2004; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Global horizons
• Subjects: Arts; Culture; Governance; Indigenous populations; Nation; Politics & International Relations; Postcolonialism; Postcolonialism and the arts; Sociology & Social Policy; country; Young Man; Postwar German Cinema; american; Van Woerden; Cheyenne Autumn; Plantation Bloc; Nation Building; Imperial Transfer; native; Ormus Cama; llosa; Ford's Film; DNA Databank; Shot Liberty Valance; White American Nationhood; Dead Man; Vargas Llosa; Magnalia Christi Americana; Indian Country; Classic Western Films; Political Theory Canon; Wim Wenders; West Germany; cultural; Euro American; Tom Doniphon; White America; Euro Canadian; Akseli Gallen Kallela; cheyenne; vargas; autumn; indian; governance
• ISBN: 9780415945325; 0415945321; 0415945313; 9780415945318
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203503775

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.