Increased flows of people, capital, and ideas across geographic borders raise urgent challenges to the existing terms and practices of politics. Comparative political theory seeks to devise new intellectual frames for addressing these challenges by questioning the canonical (that is, Euro-American) categories that have historically shaped inquiry in political theory and other disciplines. It does this byanalyzing normative claims, discursive structures, and formations of power in and from all parts of the world. By looking to alternative bodies of thought and experience, as well as the terms we might use to critically examine them, comparative political theory encourages self-reflexivity about the premises of normative ideas and articulates new possibilities for political theory and practice.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory provides an entry point into this burgeoning field by both synthesizing and challenging the terms which motivate it. Over the course of five thematic sections and thirty-three chapters, this volume surveys the field and archives of comparative political theory, bringing the many approaches to the field into conversation for the first time. Sections address geographic location as a subject of political theorizing; how the past becomes a key site for staking political claims; the politics of translation and appropriation; the justification of political authority; and questions of disciplinary commitment and rules of knowledge. Ultimately, the handbook demonstrates how mainstream political theory can and must be enriched through attention to genuinely global, rather than parochially Euro-American, contributions to political thinking.

Edited by Leigh K. Jenco, Murad Idris, and Megan C. Thomas

Leigh K. Jenco is Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Murad Idris is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Virginia.

Megan C. Thomas is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Contributors:

Contributors:

Martin Odei Ajei, Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Classics, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Rochana Bajpai, Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, United Kingdom

Pablo Blitstein, MaÃtre de conférences, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Historiques, Paris, France

David Bourchier, Associate Professor, Asian Studies, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

George Ciccariello-Maher, Visiting Scholar, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York, USA

Lisandro E. Claudio, Associate Professor, Departments of History and Literature, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines

Yasmeen Daifallah, Assistant Professor, Politics, University of California - Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA

Roxanne L. Euben, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

MarÃa Luisa FemenÃas, Professor of Philosophy, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Adom Getachew, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Beng-Lan Goh, Independent Scholar, Adjunct Professor, Department of Area Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia

Jane Anna Gordon, Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA

Katherine A. Gordy, Associate Professor, Political Science, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA

Stuart Gray, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, USA

Juliet Hooker, Professor, Political Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Murad Idris, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

Humeira Iqtidar, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Department of Political Economy, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Leigh K. Jenco, Professor, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom

Kim Youngmin, Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Jimmy Casas Klausen, Professor, Instituto de Relações Internacionais, PontifÃcia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Aishwary Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of History of Consciousness, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA

Andrew F. March, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

Viren Murthy, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Robert Nichols, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA

Uchenna Okeja, Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Okubo Takeharu, Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

Delia Popescu, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Director, Peace and Global Studies, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, USA

M. B. Ramose, Associate Research Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Ga-Rankuwa, South Africa

Andrew Sartori, Professor, Department of History, New York University, New York, USA

Sanjay Seth, Professor, Politics, Goldsmith's College, University of London, London, UK

Megan C. Thomas, Associate Professor, Politics, University of California - Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA

Elizabeth Urban, Assistant Professor, History Department, West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

Matthew J. Walton, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada